Workers In Tent City For Migrant Children Are Not Getting FBI Fingerprint Background Checks (HBO)
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3:59Now PlayingThe Office of the Inspector General issued a memorandum Tuesday afternoon confirming VICE News' findings about a lack of fingerprinting background checks for staff at the Tornillo facility housing migrant kids. OIG said they'd conducted a site visit and found conditions "posing substantial risks to children receiving care" there. OIG is in the midst of conducting inspections of 45 different facilities but the problems flagged at Tornillo with background checks were so significant they warranted this "early alert" memorandum.
The report confirmed the site is not conducting required FBI fingerprint background checks for staff and that ORR was unaware of this fact, and that the name-based checks from private vendors BCFS was using instead are less comprehensive than FBI fingerprint checks. It also found that former ORR director Scott Lloyd issued a waiver for the facility's required Child Abuse and Neglect background checks in June, shortly before the facility opened — and that he'd erroneously cited the FBI fingerprints as a justification for the waiver.
The report said ORR is now working with BCFS to ensure fingerprinting, but workers VICE News spoke with who started as recently as this week still had not been fingerprinted.
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