{"id":12092,"date":"2025-08-11T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:11:50","slug":"background-checks-for-work-with-minors-now-managed-by-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2025\/08\/11\/background-checks-for-work-with-minors-now-managed-by-risk-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Checks for Work with Minors Now Managed by Risk Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Risk Management now coordinates basic background checks commonly used for annual screenings of volunteers, camp workers, and others working with minors. These checks include a national criminal and sex offender search and cost about $9 each.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This change does not apply to new hire background checks for faculty and staff, which are still handled by HR.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To request a check or ask questions, contact\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noopener\">risk@acu.edu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk Management now coordinates basic background checks commonly used for annual screenings of volunteers, camp workers, and others working with minors. These checks include a national criminal and sex offender search and cost about $9 each. This change does not apply to new hire background checks for faculty and staff, which are still handled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions\/12093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}