What Is the Elk Grove Unified School District S Fingerprint Policy for Volunteers

What is the Elk Grove Unified School District’s students. Many charitable organizations like Big fingerprint policy for volunteers? Brothers and Big Sisters also fingerprint their Volunteers who work with children without volunteers. direct supervision by a district employee must submit their fingerprints for a criminal background Will I have to pay anything? check by the Department of Criminal Justice prior to No. The district will cover the cost of working with children. fingerprinting.

Why does the district require volunteers to be Where will fingerprinting take place? fingerprinted? Fingerprinting is available in room 104 at the Student safety is the Board of Education’s top Robert L. Trigg Education Center, 9510 Elk Grove- priority, and the board wants to take every Florin Road, Mondays & Wednesdays 8:30-10:30am precaution to ensure students and schools are safe. It and Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30-4:30pm. is another step toward student safety in addition to existing safety measures like zero tolerance, School How long does it take to get results? Resource Officers, and closed campuses. Typical results are available within a few days.

Who will be required to be fingerprinted? How will volunteers and schools be notified? Most volunteers help out under direct School site secretaries are updated bi-weekly. supervision of a district employee, so they will not Potential volunteers can then check with them to see be affected. Those who volunteer in the classroom or if clearance has been received. school office, for example, do not need criminal background checks. Volunteers typically affected by Will parents who transport students to athletic this policy include those working with children in an events or field trips need to complete the unsupervised setting, such as mentors at businesses, Criminal Justice check? volunteer coaches, drivers on field trips, and Yes. Parents who drive students to various chaperones on overnight trips who would be alone activities will need to be fingerprinted and complete with children. the auto usage form, which requires drivers to have a valid California Driver’s License and appropriate What do the background checks look for? automobile insurance. Drivers must be at least 23 Volunteers are held to the same standard as all years of age. district employees, who may not begin work until clearing a fingerprint check. State law forbids people How long is my fingerprint clearance good for? with convictions for sexual crimes, drug crimes, or We are able to keep that information on file serious or violent felonies from being employed by until otherwise notified. Please contact us for more schools. The district extended this policy to cover information. EGUSD volunteers who work unsupervised with

Last updated on 8/01/2012