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Human Resources

Nov 30, 2007

Firm denies it OK'd sex offender to work at school

“If someone is interested in showing initiative, there's nothing we can do to prevent it. It's a free country.”

STAMFORD - A hiring agency denied yesterday that it gave a convicted sex offender permission to work as a custodian at Newfield Elementary School this month.

Spherion Corp. said it was completing a criminal background check on the applicant and did not give him the go-ahead to enter the school Nov. 14.

In a letter to parents Nov. 21, schools Superintendent Joshua Starr said he wanted to address parents' concerns 'about a (false) report that a registered sex offender was working as a temporary custodian at Newfield School.' Read more

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