Background Check Process and Requirements | Grand Rapids Community College

Background Check Process

When you enroll in a class that has a lab component, certain assignment requirements or is located in the Early Childhood Learning Lab (ECLL), you are giving us permission for the GRCC Police to run a Criminal Background Check through ICHAT (The Internet Criminal History Access Tool). This process will happen automatically when you enroll in a course that requires a Criminal Background Check. Students do not need to do anything to initiate the background check.

Questions or concerns can be directed to education@grcc.edu

Background Check Requirements

Field experiences are a central component of the Child Development and Education Programs at Grand Rapids Community College. Lab placements are included in EDU 118, EDU 210, EDU 212, EDU 227 and EDU 230. EDU 205 students are required to participate in tutoring through Grand Rapids area schools.

Through these field experiences, students are placed in a variety of settings including the GRCC Laboratory Preschool, local nationally accredited Early Childhood programs and in many different elementary, middle and high schools. In order to ensure the safety and well-being of the children in these programs, all students enrolled in the classes listed below will be appropriately screened using the following method:

Child Development Lab Classes

Students enrolled in Child Development Lab classes (EDU 118, EDU 227, EDU 212, EDU 210, and EDU 230) must undergo a Criminal Background Check and a Michigan Sex Offender Registry Check.

If, as a result of the criminal background check, or if Grand Rapids Community College learns through an authoritative source, that a student has been convicted of any felony, any of the listed offenses as defined by MCL 28.722. (Sex Offenders Registration Act; Act 295 of 1994), or is listed on the Michigan Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry (Child Protection Law; MCL 722.627-722.627j) the student will be refused lab placement and removed from the course.

"Listed Offenses" are those defined in MCL 28.722 (Sex Offenders Registration Act; Act 295 of 1994) and include the following:

MCL 750.145a. Accosting, enticing or soliciting a child (less than 16 years of age) for immoral purposes.
MCL 750.145b. Accosting, enticing or soliciting a child (less than 16 years of age) for immoral purposes - second or subsequent offenses.
MCL 750.145c. Child (a person less than 18 years of age who has not been legally emancipated) sexually abusive activity or material, including possession of child sexually abusive material.
MCL 750.158. Crime against nature (i.e., sodomy and bestiality) if the victim is an individual less than 18 years of age.
A third or subsequent violation of any combination of the following:
MCL 750.167(1)(f). Indecent or obscene conduct in a public place;
MCL 750.335a. Indecent exposure;
MCL 750.338. A local ordinance of a municipality substantially corresponding to a section described in A or B, supra.
Except for juvenile disposition or adjudication, a violation of:
- MCL 750.338. Gross indecency between males; fellatio or masturbation;
- MCL 750.338a. Gross indecency between females, oral sex;
- MCL 750.388b. Gross indecency between male and female persons.
If the victim is an individual less than 18 years of age:
- MCL 750.349. Kidnapping, if victim is an individual less than 18 years of age.
- MCL 750.350. Kidnapping; child under 14 years of age with intent to detain or conceal from child's parent or legal guardian.
- MCL 750.448. Soliciting or accosting by a person 16 years of age or older, if victim is an individual less than 18 years of age.
- MCL 750.455. Pandering.
- MCL 750.520b. First degree criminal sexual conduct.
- MCL 750.520c. Second degree criminal sexual conduct.
- MCL 750.520d. Third degree criminal sexual conduct.
- MCL 750.520e. Fourth degree criminal sexual conduct.
- MCL 750.520g. Assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct.
- Any other violation of a law or the state or a local ordinance of a municipality that by its nature constitutes a sexual offense against an individual who is less than 18 years of age.
- MCL 750.10a. Offense by sexually delinquent person (i.e., "any person whose sexual behavior is characterized by repetitive or compulsive acts which indicate a disregard of consequences or the recognized rights of others, or by the use of force upon another person in attempting sexual relations of either a heterosexual or homosexual nature, or by the commission of sexual aggressions against children under the age of 16").
- An attempt or conspiracy to commit an offense described above.
- An offense substantially similar to an above offense under a law of the United States, any state, or any country or any tribal or military law.

A student should report any convictions involving a felony or listed offenses and if he or she is placed on the Michigan Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry within three business days to the Education Program Director. This will result in being removed from the class and lab.

If the student disagrees with the information obtained from criminal background check, the student should submit voluntarily to a fingerprinting background check through the Michigan State Police and FBI records. The student is required to pay for any fingerprinting costs.

EDU 205

Students enrolled in these courses are required to participate in tutoring through Grand Rapids area schools and each student will need to go through a must undergo a Criminal Background Check and a Michigan Sex Offender Registry Check, as well as completing the Grand Rapids Public Schools Volunteer Application