Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is calling for the passage of a law requiring school districts to conduct fingerprinting and criminal history checks on all of their employees every five years.
Kobach made the recommendation after the release of a report from the state’s Medicaid Inspector General that said about 31 percent of Kansas school district employees who provide Medicaid-related services to students do not have background investigations on file. The report followed an audit of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s management of Medicaid reimbursements. The audit sampled 17 of the 287 public school districts across the state.
The report from Inspector General Steven Anderson is recommending that all school district employees have current background investigations on file. It also calls on Kansas lawmakers to develop a law requiring fingerprint-based criminal history background investigations for all employees every five years.
