Delaware Administrative Code
Title 14 - Education
700 - Finance and Personnel
746 - Criminal Background Check for Student Teaching
Section 746-5.0 - Procedures for Maintaining Criminal Background Check Information

Universal Citation: 14 DE Admin Code 746-5.0

Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024

5.1 All information and records pertaining to criminal background checks and this regulation shall be maintained in a confidential manner including, but not limited to, the following:

5.1.1 Access to criminal background check records, letters of reference accompanying out of state criminal background checks, and determination of suitability shall be limited to the Higher Education Institution officer responsible for student teacher assignments and one person designated to assist in the processing of criminal background checks; and the Public School Superintendent responsible for the determination of suitability in the placing Public School. These persons shall be required to sign an agreement to keep such information confidential and employ proper precautions to insure that interoffice communications remain confidential;

5.1.2 All such records shall be kept in locked, fireproof cabinets;

5.1.3 No information from such records shall be released without the signed approval of and the appropriate signed release of the candidate or person placed in a Student Teaching Placement.

5.2 The Higher Education Institution may dispose of the criminal background check in a secure manner no earlier than six (6) months after the student graduates from the Higher Education Institution.

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