Albuquerque Public Schools to conduct new background checks

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Albuquerque Public Schools is expected to begin conducting background checks for nearly 2,000 employees hired before 1999.
APS will ask for the first 300 people to come in to be fingerprinted and to discuss an prior convictions.
In March, the APS board approved two new policy changes when it comes to background checks, one of which will require school employees to tell their supervisor of any prior criminal convictions. The other requires employees to get backgrou