Wednesday, July 23, 2008

BIA School Employees Lack Proper Background Checks

More than 70 percent of the Bureau of Indian Education employees at sample schools investigated by the Department of Interior’s Inspector General lacked properly conducted background checks as required by federal law. The Bureau of Indian Education was formerly known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Indian Education Programs.

Based on a statistical sample of 1,199 of the 4,501 employees who work for the BIE, the Inspector General found that as of May 2007, 2 percent of the employees working for BIE schools had no security file documenting any investigation and 76 percent had security files that contained material errors in the investigation conducted.

Material errors in the investigations included lack of required FBI fingerprint checks, absence of character background checks, and absence of reinvestigations for employees with over 5 years on the job," the report stated.

Read the report here.

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