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As required by the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and New York State Social Services Law, all operators, employees and volunteers in licensed/registered child care programs must undergo a series of comprehensive background checks.
Background check requirements include:
- NYS criminal history check
- FBI criminal history check
- Child abuse and maltreatment registry screening
- NYS Sex Offender registry check
- National Crime and Information Center-National Sex Offender Registry Check(pending implementation)
In addition, for any individual who resides or resided in another state in the prior 5 years, the following checks must be done against that state(s):
- Criminal history repository
- Child abuse and maltreatment registry
- Sex Offender registry