Information System to Be Built to Eliminate Blind Spots in Checking Sex Offenders' Employment Restrictions

Information sharing on employment restrictions among relevant agencies will be strengthened to prevent individuals with final convictions for sex crimes from working at child and youth facilities.

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced that it will build an information system to promptly verify whether employees at child and youth facilities are subject to employment restrictions by linking with the court, the Korean National Police Agency, and other relevant bodies.

The Ministry plans to establish an Information Strategy Planning (ISP) by next year containing the scope of information linkage, system construction methods, and personal information protection measures, and to build and operate the information system by the following year.

Article 57 of the Act on the Protection of Children and Juvenives against Sex Offenses stipulates that child and youth facilities must inspect at least once a year whether their employees have received employment restriction orders due to sex crimes. However, due to cumbersome procedures for requesting and receiving related information, inspections were often conducted only once a year in practice.

As a result, there have been cases where workers who joined child and youth facilities shortly after an inspection on sex offenders' employment restrictions went unchecked for nearly a year. The Ministry expects that these issues will be resolved once the information system is established.

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