Revoking of licenses for teachers delayed

Source: AP

SACRAMENTO - Clifford Doty's career in education came to an end when he was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for sending child pornography over the Internet.

Throughout his criminal case and for months afterward, however, his California state teaching credential remained valid. It was in effect without so much as a notation that its holder had been criminally charged with a sex-related offense.

Doty was arrested in November 2000 trying to meet someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl, a rendezvous he arranged through a chat room called "Widdle Gurls."

After pleading guilty in June 2001, the former Palmdale Unified elementary school vice principal wrote the state credentialing commission himself the following February asking that his license be revoked, which it subsequently was.

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Wow.

doesn't know what the other hand is doing.

or is it more commonly reported now?

That's pretty much what it is, but we only see the unseemly ties to Hitler's I.G. Farben, and not his Hitler Jugend.

I was talking about the fact that the department that covers the licensing of educators didn't get the message that this scumbag was a convicted child molester.



On edit, added the word convicted to the sentence.

they are suppose to uphold. I bet too many times they don't do their job meaning researching the law to determine what requirements are required.