State under pressure to expand background checks

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    State under pressure to expand background checks

    Workers at summer camps, preschools and day care centers that get federal grants may soon need to be fingerprinted and subjected to national criminal background checks. A plan filed by Gov. Charlie Baker expands background check procedures for the Department of Early Education and Care to comply with new federal rules, which require a check on the National Sex Offender Registry. "Massachusetts does not currently meet these requirements, which puts the state in jeopardy of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding," Tom Weber, commissioner of the Department of Early Education and Care, told a legislative committee on ...


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