AEA giving up on two-year college background check bill
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Associated Press
Published: May 12, 2008
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ The Alabama Education Association is giving up on a bill that would have short-circuited plans by the chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system to use a private company to do criminal background checks on employees.
The bill will be pending a final vote in the state Senate when the Legislature returns May 19 for its last meeting day. AEA Executive Secretary Paul Hubbert said Monday there are no plans to push the bill because getting the education budget passed on the final day is far more important.
Two-year college Chancellor Bradley Byrne has lined up a private company, the Integrity Group, to do background checks without using fingerprints.
AEA was pushing a bill by Democratic Rep. Yvonne Kennedy of Mobile. It would have had the background checks done with fingerprints by the state Department of Public Safety.
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