Granted, this is Illinois, not Wisconnsin. But I wonder how "the state" can handle the increased workload to accomplish this task? Keep in mind, of the 70,000 state-paid caregivers, 60,000 are unlicensed. The licensed ones already are subject to background checks, which presumably would stop this kind of thing from happening. Of the remaining 60,000 caregivers, an audit found:
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As part of a routine, wide-ranging audit of Human Services, state auditors compared the addresses of state-paid baby sitters with the sex offender registry. They found two payments made that year to a registered sex offender at the offender's address. Also, 83 baby sitters lived at addresses where sex offenders were registered, according to the auditors' report.
Auditors called it a "significant deficiency."
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They found two payments. Uh huh. And they found 83 other matching addresses. Let's round up and say an even 100 suspicious connections. 100/60,000 == 1/600, a 0.16% chance of such a connection. How much money should be spent on this kind of risk?