Newspaper report - USA - Prompts crackdown on school bus drivers
QUINCY, Mass.,USA -Boston Globe -19 May 2006: -- State officials are pushing for laws to prohibit anyone with a drunken driving conviction from driving a school bus or van... Amie O'Hearn, spokeswoman for the Registry of Motor Vehicles, said the Romney administration will seek to strengthen the school bus licensing law following an investigation by The Patriot Ledger newspaper of Quincy, which revealed several communities don't run background checks on drivers... Currently, a license can be denied to anyone convicted of drunken driving in the previous five years. O'Hearn said Registry officials have asked lawmakers to consider changing the law so that no one ever convicted of drunken driving can drive a school bus... The Patriot Ledger found that several school districts fail to run background checks on school bus drivers, and others can't produce the names of people allowed behind the wheel... The Department of Education says school districts are responsible for checking the criminal and driving records of all bus drivers, but some districts leave it to bus companies to do their own background checks...
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