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Law requiring child care providers to get fingerprinted debuts Jan. 1
All child care employees must have background check by 2017
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A new law set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014, is aiming to increase the safety of all children in child care facilities. “It’s probably the most surprising thing that I’ve encountered since I’ve been here,” said Bobby Cagle, commissioner of Bright from the Start: Department of Early Care and Learning. “As soon as I identified it, then we set in motion the beginnings of the discussions that needed to occur with providers and others in order to be able to put this into law.”