{
  "id": 16767018,
  "title": "Adutwum wants sex offenders register to screen teachers and school workers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/adutwum-wants-sex-offenders-register-to-screen-teachers-and-school",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T15:28:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/adutwum-wants-sex-offenders-register-to-screen-teachers-and-school-workers/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has called for mandatory fingerprint background checks as a condition for teacher licensing, arguing that stronger vetting is needed to prevent individuals with relevant criminal records from working in schools. He has also proposed establishing a sex offenders register that would be checked against the fingerprints of teachers and other education…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}