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February 1 2017

Background screening companies that provide background checks to online child care job posting services in California

Parents want to employ only the most qualified individuals to watch over their children. Background checks on these individuals—often provided by consumer reporting agencies—therefore are at a high premium. The author of Assembly Bill 2036, Assembly member Patty Lopez, cited just this concern in support of her new bill, which imposes additional restrictions on businesses providing online childcare job posting services in California and on background screening companies providing background checks to those businesses: “This Bill is another good step to protecting our children and ensuring that child care consumers are making the most informed and safest decisions about the individual(s) they hire to care for their children.”

IWhile parents trust online child care job posting services when they advertise that their providers have undergone background checks, these checks are often conducted by “third parties,” a process that makes it difficult to determine what information the background check may contain (for example, the check may not contain information from the FBI and the DOJ’s Child Abuse Central Index databases).