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...Merry Touborg, a spokesperson for the Office of Human Resources (OHR), said that Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel is preparing a letter “with all deliberate speed” to request that contractors begin to investigate the criminal records of their Harvard workers...
...Touborg said that the issue of mandatory background checks for contractors was raised in February after Ramos’s arrest. Harvard already does criminal checks on all in-house employees...
Though the University is currently requesting—not demanding—that contractors perform background checks, Touborg said that these checks will be made mandatory when new agreements are signed with contractors. Touborg said that most agreements are one year long and many will be coming up for renewal soon...
...Touborg said that contractors will have to vet their workers using the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check, the same check that Harvard uses for its own employees...
...result of Ramos’s arrest, the University required that Sodhexo do background checks on its UHS workers, Touborg said...