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My husband has been offered a 2+ week substitute assignment in a Detroit area school district. PESG already has current fingerprints on file for him, but the school district, which is not a PESG district, told him he must be fingerprinted again. The reason they gave is that if there is a problem (such as an arrest or criminal matter), the new district would not find out about the incident from PESG. This will be the fourth time we have had to pay for fingerprinting.

Is this reasonable? PESG is willing to release their information to the new school district, and has said they do that all the time.

It is not making sense to be fingerprinted over and over again, taking time and money each time.

Thanks for any insight you can give.
Pam While PESG is willing to release the information, I bet that the school district is just trying to cover themselves. The school district is the place that would be held responsible if something would come up, not PESG.

I subbed while I was in college and was fingerprinted for that, then had to get re-fingerprinted for student teaching, the...See More
Mar 16, 2010
Missing MI It's called MONEY!
Mar 16, 2010
Crystal It had crossed my mind that the new school district was intentionally adding costs unnecessarily. I would not think, however, that a school district would receive a fee ("kickback") from the company that does fingerprinting. But I don't know. Three sets of fingerprints from the SAME company in a short period of time seems excessive.

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Mar 17, 2010


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