Background Check Questioned for Ex-DE Principal
GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP)- Two Maryland school administrators say they weren’t called about a former employee who was later hired as a Sussex County principal and is now imprisoned for a sexual relationship with a student.
Court records show 39-year-old Dana Goodman was ordered at sentencing not to have contact with a Delaware victim and two other females, including a former student at one of two Maryland schools that employed him.
In the past 48 hours I have witnessed the best Public Relations campaign I have ever seen. I guess I will further enhance their ‘publicity stunt’ by writing about it myself! I have not only seen this as a top story on local and national news but also sites such as Digg, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and many others. The campaign is doing so well that it actually crashed their website. Does this job application mention a background check? I don’t know, I can’t even get into the site because too many people are hitting it at once. Does it even matter if someone has a criminal record if they are on a deserted island? I’ll let our readers decide!
Dallas WFAA-TV News did a great job on this story. In my opinion the Texas Board of Nursing has a lot of explaining to do. The fact that it will take another four years to complete background checks on nurses is incomprehensible. If the system is broken change the system. If the board is mandated to use this process, put another process in place while you are waiting. Hiring an employment screening firm to keep people safe is the best course of action here. The board is putting millions of patients at risk by negligently allowing some of these criminals into the workplace.
Thousands of Texas nurses have arrest records
11:23 AM CDT on Thursday, May 8, 2008
By JASON WHITELY / WFAA-TV
DALLAS – Few times in history has nursing become such a lucrative career.
“A good nursing supervisor, a manager, can make more than $100,000 a year in some cases,” said Devon Herrick, Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis.
Salaries spiked because of a shortage in the industry. But among the hardworking dedicated nurses are some with questionable backgrounds.
News 8 compared names and dates of births of every currently licensed nurse against the Texas Department of Public Safety criminal database.
