How is information in the DPS clearinghouse made available to districts?
The district that originally submits and uploads employees to TEA/SBEC will be automatically subscribed to the clearinghouse for that particular person. If that person leaves a district, it will unsubscribe from that person so that it will no longer receive criminal history updates. If another district hires that employee, it will then subscribe to that employee’s criminal history. More than one district may be subscribed to a person at any one time, since, for example, substitute teachers often work for several different districts at a time. Subscribing and unsubscribing is done through the DPS website and does not involve a fee, although there is a fee of $1.00 for obtaining subsequent criminal history reports after the initial one.
