N.M. Admin. Code § 6.60.8.9 - IMPLEMENTATION
A. The PED will not
issue an educator license until the applicant's background check has been
successfully completed.
B. An
applicant will be notified of any information in the background check reports
that could result in licensure denial, suspension, or revocation prior to the
initiation of any such action by the PED.
C. If requested by a local school board, a
DPS or FBI criminal history report that is not more than twenty-four months old
may be provided by the PED to the applicant's school employer. The PED may
inform a licensure applicant's school employer, if known, of any background
check information that reveals a conviction of a felony or misdemeanor of moral
turpitude at the same time that the information is reported to the
applicant.
D. School district
officials, who in the course of their background checks of employment
applicants, discover that a licensed applicant or applicant pending a license
has a conviction of a felony or misdemeanor of moral turpitude that results in
any kind of action against that individual, shall share that information with
the professional licensure or educator ethics bureaus of the PED. If the
applicant has education licensure, the PED will notify the license holder, and
his/her current school employer, if known, of the conviction(s) following the
procedures in Subsections B and C of
6.60.8.9 NMAC.
E. Applicants will be given the opportunity
on the application form to disclose, explain, and provide information,
including rehabilitation, related to their criminal history.
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