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 February
16, 2006
BY LORI HIGGINS
FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER
Employees fired because their names wrongly appeared on lists of
school workers who are sex offenders could get their jobs back now
that a judge has halted release of the information.
U.S. District Judge Paul Gadola issued a temporary restraining
order in a ruling late Tuesday. The order calls for the lists to
be recalled.
Earlier this month, school districts began receiving lists of employees
with criminal backgrounds, part of new laws that went into effect
Jan. 1 aimed at ridding schools of sex offenders. The laws require
all school employees to be fingerprinted and have their backgrounds
checked. Districts must immediately fire any employee convicted
of a sex crime.
There has been widespread concern about inaccurate information
since the lists went out to districts.
Gadola granted the request of the Michigan Federation of Teachers,
a state union that represents school employees.
"Our goal was to ensure that when the state sends out a list
to the districts that the list is accurate," said Beth Thoreson,
spokeswoman for the union. Districts are now awaiting guidance from
the Department of Education on recalling those who have been wrongly
fired.
It was unclear Wednesday how the lists would be recalled. Martin
Ackley, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education, said
in an e-mail late Wednesday that the department is notifying school
districts that it is recalling all copies. Districts will have to
return the lists to the department.
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