What if an employee of the school district is required to be fingerprinted as a day care worker or law enforcement officer?
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) have received permission from the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to share national criminal history background information for day care workers employed by a school district. If a newly hired district employee is assigned to work in a child care center operated by the school district, and is required to be fingerprinted by DFPS for that purpose, TEA will not require that employee to be fingerprinted a second time as a newly hired non-certified employee, pursuant to Texas Education Code 22.0833(h). The school day care employee must have been fingerprinted by DFPS as a consequence of employment with the school district to be exempt from the second printing that is normally required by TEA. In other words, this exception does not apply to any school daycare employee that is not also an employee of the school district. If the day care e
