{
  "id": 2525273,
  "title": "JAIS mulls police clearance screening for religious school teachers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/jais-mulls-police-clearance-screening-for-religious-school-teachers",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-22T06:57:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/08/1516509/jais-mulls-police-clearance-screening-religious-school-teachers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) is considering new measures to prevent sexual misconduct involving students at religious schools, according to its director, Datuk Mohd Shahzihan Ahmad. Discussions are underway with the School Registration Committee to implement stricter teacher screening processes, potentially including police clearance for all teachers. Shahzihan emphasized the need for security screening and discussed guidelines for interactions between students and teachers, such as stricter segregation and avoidance of special treatment or meetings at unsupervised hours. The state government has already handed over the investigation of a case involving an alleged sexual assault by a teacher to the police.",
  "summary": "SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) is formulating measures and guidelines to curb sexual misconduct involving students at religious schools.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Bernama",
        "title": "General : JAIS To Tighten Religious School Teachers' Screening To Ensure Student Safety",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/general-jais-to-tighten-religious-school-teachers-screening-to-ensure",
        "published": "2026-08-22T04:18:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "JAIS mulls police help when recruiting teachers, to curb sexual misconduct",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/jais-mulls-police-help-when-recruiting-teachers-to-curb-sexual",
        "published": "2026-08-22T07:01:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}