Background Screening

All new Instructional and Noninstructional employees must be fingerprinted per Florida statute 1012.465 and 1012.56.  There should be no student contact prior to fingerprinting and background approval.

GUIDELINES

  • once offered employment fingerprinting is done at the district office by appointment
  • the method of payment is by money order only made payable to the District School Board of Pasco County
  • must bring a US government issued photo identification (such as a driver’s license) and your social security card

GUIDELINES FOR CRIMINAL BACKGROUND DISCLOSURES

The following information should be submitted on each incident for review by the District’s Professional Review Committee:

  1. Submit a signed, detailed letter explaining the nature of the incident, the circumstances surrounding the incident, the disposition of the charges and any rehabilitative efforts that were made in connection with the incident.
  2. Contact the Clerk of Courts office in the county where you were arrested and request certified copies of all documents including arrest reports, pleadings, acquittal, sealing or expunging orders, sentencing, conditions and final disposition of charges. If you were placed on probation, you will need to also submit documentation stating that probation is complete and there are no outstanding warrants. When copies of all available documents are received, submit them along with your signed detailed letter to me at the above address. If you are told that the records are not available due to the length of time elapsed from the arrest date to the present, please ask the agency to state that information on their letterhead for us.


Send Information to:
Anita M. Mullins, Supervisor of Human Resources
District School Board of Pasco County?
7227 Land O’ Lakes Blvd.?
Land O’ Lakes, FL 34638

For Questions, call our offices at:
East Pasco - 352-524-2522
West Pasco - 727-774-2522
Central Pasco - 813-794-2522

 

The School Board of Pasco County, Florida does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national
origin, marital status, disability, or age in its programs, services, activities or in its hiring and employment practices.

District Wide Accreditation • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools • Heather Fiorentino, Superintendent
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