Title

"Cover Story" piece on the controversial law that requires all Maine school empl

Source

Portland Phoenix

Date

3-17-2000

Pages

1, 10

Abstract

"Cover Story" piece on the controversial law that requires all Maine school employees, including teachers, to be fingerprinted for criminal background checks. The use of fingerprinting is growing, according to Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union. Each day the FBI receives about 36,000 fingerprints, about half of which belong to job applicants. Bernard Huebner, a teacher in the Skowhegan area, says the problem with the increasing use of fingerprinting for job applicants is that there is no longer a presumption of innocence.

Subjects

Employee screening, School employees, Session Laws

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