105 ILCS 5/10-21.9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 10 - School Boards

 (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)(Text of Section from P.A. 102-538)Sec. 10-21.9. Criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.(a) Licensed and nonlicensed applicants for employment with a school  district, except school bus driver applicants, are required as a condition  of employment to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine if such applicants have been convicted of any disqualifying, enumerated criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or  have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment with  the  school district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or of any  offense committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws of  the United States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would  have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.   Authorization for  the check shall be furnished by the applicant to  the school district, except that if the applicant is a substitute teacher  seeking employment in more than one school district, a teacher seeking  concurrent part-time employment positions with more than one school  district (as a reading specialist, special education teacher or otherwise),  or an educational support personnel employee seeking employment positions  with more than one district, any such district may require the applicant to  furnish authorization for  the  check to the regional superintendent  of the educational service region in which are located the school districts  in which the applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent  part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee.  Upon receipt of this authorization, the school district or the appropriate  regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall submit the applicant's  name, sex, race, date of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as prescribed by the Illinois State Police, to the Illinois State Police. The regional  superintendent submitting the requisite information to the Illinois   State Police shall promptly notify the school districts in which the  applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time  teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee that  the  check of the applicant has been requested. The Illinois State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based criminal history records check, records of convictions, forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of the school board for the school district that requested the check, or to the regional superintendent who requested the check.   The Illinois State Police   shall charge  the school district  or the appropriate regional superintendent a fee for  conducting   such check, which fee shall be deposited in the State  Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the cost of  the inquiry; and the  applicant shall not be charged a fee for  such check by the school  district or by the regional superintendent, except that those applicants seeking employment as a substitute teacher with a school district may be charged a fee not to exceed the cost of the inquiry.  Subject to appropriations for these purposes, the State Superintendent of Education shall reimburse school districts and regional superintendents for fees paid to obtain criminal history records checks under this Section.(a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, for each applicant. The check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database must be conducted by the school district or regional superintendent once for every 5 years that an applicant remains employed by the school district.(a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall further perform a check of the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community Notification Law, for each applicant. The check of the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database must be conducted by the school district or regional superintendent once for every 5 years that an applicant remains employed by the school district.(b)    Any information  concerning the record of convictions obtained by the president of the  school board or the regional superintendent shall be confidential and may  only be transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his  designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if  the check was  requested by the school district, the presidents of the appropriate school  boards if  the check was requested from the Illinois State  Police by the regional superintendent, the State Board of Education and a school district as authorized under subsection (b-5), the State Superintendent of  Education, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, any other person  necessary to the decision of hiring the applicant for employment, or for clarification purposes the Illinois State Police or Statewide Sex Offender Database, or both.  A copy  of the record of convictions obtained from the Illinois State Police  shall be provided to the applicant for employment. Upon the check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, the school district or regional superintendent shall notify an applicant as to whether or not the applicant has been identified in the Database. If a check of  an applicant for employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time teacher  or concurrent educational support personnel employee in more than one  school district was requested by the regional superintendent, and the Illinois   State Police upon a check ascertains that the applicant  has not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses  in subsection (c) of this Section  or has not been convicted, within 7 years of the  application for  employment with the  school district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or of any  offense committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws of  the United States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would  have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this State  and so notifies the regional  superintendent and if the regional superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has not been identified in the Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, then the  regional superintendent shall issue to the applicant a certificate  evidencing that as of the date specified by the Illinois State Police  the applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or  drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section  or has not been  convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment with the  school district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or of any  offense committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws of  the United States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would  have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and evidencing that as of the date that the regional superintendent conducted a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, the applicant has not been identified in the Database.  The school  board of  any  school district  may rely on the  certificate issued by any regional superintendent to that substitute teacher, concurrent part-time teacher, or concurrent educational support personnel employee or may  initiate its own criminal history records check of the applicant through the Illinois   State Police and its own check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as provided in this Section. Any unauthorized release of confidential information may be a violation of Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.(b-5) If a criminal history records check or check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database is performed by a regional superintendent for an applicant seeking employment as a substitute teacher with a school district, the regional superintendent may disclose to the State Board of Education whether the applicant has been issued a certificate under subsection (b) based on those checks. If the State Board receives information on an applicant under this subsection, then it must indicate in the Educator Licensure Information System for a 90-day period that the applicant has been issued or has not been issued a certificate.(c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who has been  convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to Section 21B-80 of this Code, except as provided under subsection (b) of Section 21B-80.  Further, no school board shall knowingly employ a person who has been found  to be the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18 years  of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of  1987. As a condition of employment, each school board must consider the status of a person who has been issued an indicated finding of abuse or neglect of a child by the Department of Children and Family Services under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act or by a child welfare agency of another jurisdiction.(d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for whom a criminal  history records check and a Statewide Sex Offender Database check have not been initiated.(e) Within 10 days after a superintendent, regional office of education, or entity that provides background checks of license holders to public schools receives information of a pending criminal charge against a license holder for an offense set forth in Section 21B-80 of this Code, the superintendent, regional office of education, or entity must notify the State Superintendent of Education of the pending criminal charge.If permissible by federal or State law, no later than 15 business days after receipt of a record of conviction or of checking the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database or the Statewide Sex Offender Database and finding a registration, the superintendent of the employing school board or the applicable regional superintendent shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education of any license holder who has been convicted of a crime set forth in Section 21B-80 of this Code. Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a finding of child  abuse by a holder of any license   issued pursuant to Article 21B or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the  School Code, the  State Superintendent of Education may initiate licensure suspension  and revocation proceedings as authorized by law. If the receipt of the record of conviction or finding of child abuse is received within 6 months after the initial grant of or renewal of a license, the State Superintendent of Education may rescind the license holder's license.(e-5)  The superintendent of the employing school board shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education and the applicable regional superintendent of schools of any license holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect with the result of making a child an abused child or a neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the license holder's dismissal or resignation from the school district.  This notification must be submitted within 30 days after the dismissal or resignation.  The license holder must also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the superintendent.  All correspondence, documentation, and other information so received by the regional superintendent of schools, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Board of Education, or the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board under this subsection (e-5) is confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties, except (i) as necessary for the State Superintendent of Education or his or her designee to investigate and prosecute pursuant to Article 21B of this Code, (ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii) for disclosure to the license holder or his or her representative, or (iv) as otherwise provided in this Article and provided that any such information admitted into evidence in a hearing is exempt from this confidentiality and non-disclosure requirement.  Except for an act of willful or wanton misconduct, any superintendent who provides notification as required in this subsection (e-5) shall have immunity from any liability, whether civil or criminal or that otherwise might result by reason of such action.(f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section shall apply  to all employees of persons or firms holding contracts with any school  district including, but not limited to, food service workers, school bus  drivers and other transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact  with the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of criminal  history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding  contracts with more than one school district and assigned to more than one  school district, the regional superintendent of the educational service  region in which the contracting school districts are located may, at the  request of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the  authorization for  a criminal history records check prepared by each such employee and  submitting the same to the Illinois State Police and for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database for each employee.  Any information  concerning the record of conviction and identification as a sex offender of any such employee obtained by the  regional superintendent shall be promptly reported to the president of the  appropriate school board or school boards.(f-5) Upon request of a school or school district, any information obtained by a school district pursuant to subsection (f) of this Section within the last year must be made available to the requesting school or school district.(g) Prior to the commencement of any student teaching experience or required internship (which is referred to as student teaching in this Section) in the public schools, a student teacher is required to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history records check.  Authorization for and payment of the costs of the check must be furnished by the student teacher to the school district where the student teaching is to be completed. Upon receipt of this authorization and payment, the school district shall submit the student teacher's name, sex, race, date of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as prescribed by the Illinois State Police, to the Illinois State Police. The Illinois State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based criminal history records check, records of convictions, forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of the school board for the school district that requested the check. The Illinois State Police shall charge the school district a fee for conducting the check, which fee must not exceed the cost of the inquiry and must be deposited into the State Police Services Fund.  The school district shall further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, and of the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, for each student teacher. No school board may knowingly allow a person to student teach for whom a criminal history records check, a Statewide Sex Offender Database check, and a Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database check have not been completed and reviewed by the district.A copy of the record of convictions obtained from the Illinois State Police must be provided to the student teacher. Any information concerning the record of convictions obtained by the president of the school board is confidential and may only be transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his or her designee, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, or, for clarification purposes, the Illinois State Police or the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.  Any unauthorized release of confidential information may be a violation of Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.No school board shall knowingly allow a person to student teach who has been convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 21B-80 of this Code, except as provided under subsection (b) of Section 21B-80.  Further, no school board shall allow a person to student teach if he or she has been found to be the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of a minor under 18 years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Each school board must consider the status of a person to student teach who has been issued an indicated finding of abuse or neglect of a child by the Department of Children and Family Services under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act or by a child welfare agency of another jurisdiction.(h) (Blank).(Source: P.A. 101-72, eff. 7-12-19; 101-531, eff. 8-23-19; 101-643, eff. 6-18-20; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)(Text of Section from P.A. 102-552)Sec. 10-21.9. Criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.(a) Licensed and nonlicensed applicants for employment with a school  district, except school bus driver applicants, are required as a condition  of employment to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine if such applicants have been convicted of any disqualifying, enumerated criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or  have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment with  the  school district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or of any  offense committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws of  the United States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would  have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.   Authorization for  the check shall be furnished by the applicant to  the school district, except that if the applicant is a substitute teacher  seeking employment in more than one school district, a teacher seeking  concurrent part-time employment positions with more than one school  district (as a reading specialist, special education teacher or otherwise),  or an educational support personnel employee seeking employment positions  with more than one district, any such district may require the applicant to  furnish authorization for  the  check to the regional superintendent  of the educational service region in which are located the school districts  in which the applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent  part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee.  Upon receipt of this authorization, the school district or the appropriate  regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall submit the applicant's  name, sex, race, date of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as prescribed by the Department  of State Police, to the Department. The regional  superintendent submitting the requisite information to the Department of  State Police shall promptly notify the school districts in which the  applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time  teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee that  the  check of the applicant has been requested. The Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based criminal history records check, records of convictions, forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of the school board for the school district that requested the check, or to the regional superintendent who requested the check.   The  Department shall charge  the school district  or the appropriate regional superintendent a fee for  conducting   such check, which fee shall be deposited in the State  Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the cost of  the inquiry; and the  applicant shall not be charged a fee for  such check by the school  district or by the regional superintendent, except that those applicants seeking employment as a substitute teacher with a school district may be charged a fee not to exceed the cost of the inquiry.  Subject to appropriations for these purposes, the State Superintendent of Education shall reimburse school districts and regional superintendents for fees paid to obtain criminal history records checks under this Section.(a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, for each applicant. The check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database must be conducted by the school district or regional superintendent once for every 5 years that an applicant remains employed by the school district.(a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall further perform a check of the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community Notification Law, for each applicant. The check of the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database must be conducted by the school district or regional superintendent once for every 5 years that an applicant remains employed by the school district.(b)    Any information  concerning the record of convictions obtained by the president of the  school board or the regional superintendent shall be confidential and may  only be transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his  designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if  the check was  requested by the school district, the presidents of the appropriate school  boards if  the check was requested from the Department of State  Police by the regional superintendent, the State Board of Education and a school district as authorized under subsection (b-5), the State Superintendent of  Education, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, any other person  necessary to the decision of hiring the applicant for employment, or for clarification purposes the Department of State Police or Statewide Sex Offender Database, or both.  A copy  of the record of convictions obtained from the Department of State Police  shall be provided to the applicant for employment. Upon the check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, the school district or regional superintendent shall notify an applicant as to whether or not the applicant has been identified in the Database. If a check of  an applicant for employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time teacher  or concurrent educational support personnel employee in more than one  school district was requested by the regional superintendent, and the  Department of State Police upon a check ascertains that the applicant  has not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses  in subsection (c) of this Section  or has not been convicted, within 7 years of the  application for  employment with the  school district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or of any  offense committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws of  the United States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would  have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this State  and so notifies the regional  superintendent and if the regional superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has not been identified in the Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, then the  regional superintendent shall issue to the applicant a certificate  evidencing that as of the date specified by the Department of State Police  the applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or  drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section  or has not been  convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment with the  school district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or of any  offense committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws of  the United States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would  have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and evidencing that as of the date that the regional superintendent conducted a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, the applicant has not been identified in the Database.  The school  board of  any  school district  may rely on the  certificate issued by any regional superintendent to that substitute teacher, concurrent part-time teacher, or concurrent educational support personnel employee or may  initiate its own criminal history records check of the applicant through the Department of  State Police and its own check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database as provided in this Section. Any unauthorized release of confidential information may be a violation of Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.(b-5) If a criminal history records check or check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database is performed by a regional superintendent for an applicant seeking employment as a substitute teacher with a school district, the regional superintendent may disclose to the State Board of Education whether the applicant has been issued a certificate under subsection (b) based on those checks. If the State Board receives information on an applicant under this subsection, then it must indicate in the Educator Licensure Information System for a 90-day period that the applicant has been issued or has not been issued a certificate.(c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who has been  convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to Section 21B-80 of this Code, except as provided under subsection (b) of Section 21B-80.  Further, no school board shall knowingly employ a person who has been found  to be the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18 years  of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of  1987. As a condition of employment, each school board must consider the status of a person who has been issued an indicated finding of abuse or neglect of a child by the Department of Children and Family Services under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act or by a child welfare agency of another jurisdiction.(d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for whom a criminal  history records check and a Statewide Sex Offender Database check have not been initiated.(e) Within 10 days after a superintendent, regional office of education, or entity that provides background checks of license holders to public schools receives information of a pending criminal charge against a license holder for an offense set forth in Section 21B-80 of this Code, the superintendent, regional office of education, or entity must notify the State Superintendent of Education of the pending criminal charge.If permissible by federal or State law, no later than 15 business days after receipt of a record of conviction or of checking the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database or the Statewide Sex Offender Database and finding a registration, the superintendent of the employing school board or the applicable regional superintendent shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education of any license holder who has been convicted of a crime set forth in Section 21B-80 of this Code. Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a finding of child  abuse by a holder of any license   issued pursuant to Article 21B or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the  School Code, the  State Superintendent of Education may initiate licensure suspension  and revocation proceedings as authorized by law. If the receipt of the record of conviction or finding of child abuse is received within 6 months after the initial grant of or renewal of a license, the State Superintendent of Education may rescind the license holder's license.(e-5)  The superintendent of the employing school board shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education and the applicable regional superintendent of schools of any license holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect with the result of making a child an abused child or a neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the license holder's dismissal or resignation from the school district.  This notification must be submitted within 30 days after the dismissal or resignation and must include the Illinois Educator Identification Number (IEIN) of the license holder and a brief description of the misconduct alleged.  The license holder must also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the superintendent.  All correspondence, documentation, and other information so received by the regional superintendent of schools, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Board of Education, or the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board under this subsection (e-5) is confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties, except (i) as necessary for the State Superintendent of Education or his or her designee to investigate and prosecute pursuant to Article 21B of this Code, (ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii) for disclosure to the license holder or his or her representative, or (iv) as otherwise provided in this Article and provided that any such information admitted into evidence in a hearing is exempt from this confidentiality and non-disclosure requirement.  Except for an act of willful or wanton misconduct, any superintendent who provides notification as required in this subsection (e-5) shall have immunity from any liability, whether civil or criminal or that otherwise might result by reason of such action.(f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section shall apply  to all employees of persons or firms holding contracts with any school  district including, but not limited to, food service workers, school bus  drivers and other transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact  with the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of criminal  history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding  contracts with more than one school district and assigned to more than one  school district, the regional superintendent of the educational service  region in which the contracting school districts are located may, at the  request of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the  authorization for  a criminal history records check prepared by each such employee and  submitting the same to the Department of State Police and for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database for each employee.  Any information  concerning the record of conviction and identification as a sex offender of any such employee obtained by the  regional superintendent shall be promptly reported to the president of the  appropriate school board or school boards.(f-5) Upon request of a school or school district, any information obtained by a school district pursuant to subsection (f) of this Section within the last year must be made available to the requesting school or school district.(g) Prior to the commencement of any student teaching experience or required internship (which is referred to as student teaching in this Section) in the public schools, a student teacher is required to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history records check.  Authorization for and payment of the costs of the check must be furnished by the student teacher to the school district where the student teaching is to be completed. Upon receipt of this authorization and payment, the school district shall submit the student teacher's name, sex, race, date of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as prescribed by the Department of State Police, to the Department of State Police. The Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based criminal history records check, records of convictions, forever and hereinafter, until expunged, to the president of the school board for the school district that requested the check. The Department shall charge the school district a fee for conducting the check, which fee must not exceed the cost of the inquiry and must be deposited into the State Police Services Fund.  The school district shall further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, and of the Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, for each student teacher. No school board may knowingly allow a person to student teach for whom a criminal history records check, a Statewide Sex Offender Database check, and a Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database check have not been completed and reviewed by the district.A copy of the record of convictions obtained from the Department of State Police must be provided to the student teacher. Any information concerning the record of convictions obtained by the president of the school board is confidential and may only be transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his or her designee, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, or, for clarification purposes, the Department of State Police or the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.  Any unauthorized release of confidential information may be a violation of Section 7 of the Criminal Identification Act.No school board shall knowingly allow a person to student teach who has been convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to license suspension or revocation pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 21B-80 of this Code, except as provided under subsection (b) of Section 21B-80.  Further, no school board shall allow a person to student teach if he or she has been found to be the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of a minor under 18 years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Each school board must consider the status of a person to student teach who has been issued an indicated finding of abuse or neglect of a child by the Department of Children and Family Services under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act or by a child welfare agency of another jurisdiction.(h) (Blank).(Source: P.A. 101-72, eff. 7-12-19; 101-531, eff. 8-23-19; 101-643, eff. 6-18-20; 102-552, eff. 1-1-22.)