Student and staff safety is of paramount concern to the Jenks Board of Education. Employees and/or volunteers who have committed criminal offenses could be a threat to the safety of students and staff. The Board of Education commits itself to making the best possible effort to maintain a workplace safe for all students and employees

On an annual basis, all District employees who are employed by September 1 and volunteers are required to truthfully answer the following questions:

Have you within the past three hundred sixty-five (365) days:

1. Entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a state (any state) or federal felony charge?  (This question includes non-sealed criminal records involving a “deferred sentence” or “deferred judgment.”)

2. Been convicted of a state (any state) or federal felony offense?

3. Been charged with a state (any state) or federal felony offense which was reduced to a misdemeanor offense to which you entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere? (This question includes non-sealed criminal records involving a “deferred sentence” or “deferred judgment.”)

4. Entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, or been convicted of, a state (any state) or federal misdemeanor charge involving illegal chemical substances or illegal sexual activity? (This question includes non-sealed criminal records involving a “deferred sentence” or “deferred judgment.”)

5. Entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with a state (any state) or federal prosecutor?

6. Been required to register as a sex offender under the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registration Act or under similar laws in another state?

   
   

All questionnaire forms must be returned to the office of Superintendent or designee by September 15 of each school year.

Refusal by the employee to sign and return the required form or giving false information or misinformation on the required questionnaire form will constitute insubordination and willful neglect of duty and may be the basis for disciplinary action, including termination of employment. It is the duty of every District employee or volunteer, within ten (10) days of any of the following occurrences, to notify, in writing, the Superintendent.

1. If the employee or volunteer enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a state or federal felony charge;

2. If the employee or volunteer is convicted of a state or federal felony offense;

3. If the employee or volunteer enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a misdemeanor offense that originally was a state or federal felony charge:

4. If the employee or volunteer enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or has been convicted of a state or federal misdemeanor charge involving illegal chemical substances or illegal sexual activity;

5. If the employee or volunteer enters into a deferred prosecution agreement with a state or federal prosecutor;

6. Been required to register as a sex offender under the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registration Act or under similar laws in another state?

Failure to provide the referenced information, in writing, to the Superintendent within the ten (10) day period may result in termination for insubordination and willful neglect of duty.

Each year up to 10% of the total staff (certified, support, and administrative) may be randomly selected for a complete criminal record check to be conducted in the same manner as pre-employment criminal record checks for all employees.

Revised by the Board of Education January 2005

Revised May 2006

Revised August 2012

Revised May 2021