EmployeeScreenIQTuesday, November 10, 2009Background Checks a Violation of Religious Freedom?
One teacher is planning to sue the State of Texas for requiring her to be fingerprinted for background checks (Click here).
Several reports have claimed that Pam McLaurin, a teacher at Big Sandy Independent School District in Dallardsville, is suing the state because she feels being fingerprinted is a violation of her religious freedom. The case, which will be heard in Lufkin federal court, is the only religious freedom case to take place in Lufkin and the only fingerprint case to take place in the country. Attorney Scott Skelton told KTRE that McLaurin thinks getting a fingerprint would result in her "bearing the mark of the beast" and being "tormented in burning sulfur." However, she would be willing to undergo any other type of background check. "She just doesn't want to be fingerprinted," Skelton said. "That's all she doesn't want to have to do. She doesn't mind her background being checked out. She just doesn't want to submit to that. But TEA (Texas Education Agency) is not allowing an exception and so she is in this predicament." McLaurin also has complained that the state is forcing her to submit fingerprints, even though the statewide law that would require school teachers to do so isn't supposed to go into effect until 2011. Big Sandy Independent School District officials have said they will comply with the state, but hope McLaurin will continue to be allowed to teach in the district. "The Constitution issues are very, very interesting, from a stand point of a conflict between a teacher's sincere upheld religious beliefs under the first amendment to the United States Constitution and the state's intent in providing a safe environment for children in the public schools," Wayne Haglund, lawyer for the Big Sandy School District, said. Labels: Background checks posted by Jen Carpenter # 7:44 AM
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