School employees will be fingerprinted throughout the next five years. When superintendents use the references on peoples resumes, they say it is hard for them to get accurate information because of Maine's confidentiality law. In 1996 the state was going to make the teachers pay for the fingerprinting and criminal background checks. After protests by teachers and other non supporters of the law, the state agreed to pay for the fingerprinting and background checks of all the school employees. As I said before I believe that teachers should not be forced to have their fingerprints taken.
People are innocent until proven guilty.
Not for teachers though. They are treated like criminals and have their fingerprints taken. Then if they do not have any prior criminal record they will be considered innocent until we do something else to them. This law reminds me of the McCarthyism of the 1950's. Joe McCarthy went on a witch hunt looking for communists.