Beginning July 25, 2015, there will be no cost for the Child Abuse History Clearance and Criminal History Clearance for a volunteer. If required, you will have to pay for the FBI Federal Criminal History record. The Colonial School District does not reimburse for these costs.

The FBI Criminal History Record report is a fingerprint-based record check. An applicant must register to obtain the check online at by clicking here to go to the IdentoGO website. An applicant must follow all instructions on the indentoGo website. Applicants must enter the code 1KG6Y3 into the "enter code" block. Fingerprinting sites in this area can be found through the IndentoGO website.

Currently volunteers are required to have licenses scanned by the visitor management system upon entering a school. However, you WILL NOT need to have your license scanned to volunteer once your clearances are on file and you are an approved volunteer. We initiated this requirement as a way to double-check the backgrounds of volunteers whose clearances may have been obtained more than a year ago. The recent changes to the state law ensure that we will have recent clearances on file for all volunteers, and the additional step of requiring a license scan on top of three clearances could prove to be prohibitive to those who want to volunteer. License scanning will continue at district schools as a way to track visitors in and out of the building.

In December 2014, the state made amendments to Act 153 (Child Protective Services Law). The law was amended to require all school employees, contractors AND volunteers having direct contact with children to obtain new clearances every five years.