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Fingerprinting service and training support is available to all 29 school districts in the North Central ESD Region. These services were instituted to assist school districts to comply with state mandated fingerprinting requirements of all new district employees who have unsupervised access to students and first-time applicants for Washington State Teaching Certificates. During the 2006-2007 school year the ESD fingerprinted 640 personnel.

Fingerprinting Cooperative
Fingerprinting co-op member districts do not pay the administrative fee charged to non co-op districts.  Click here for a full list of service fees.

Currently, thirteen districts and one private school are cooperative members:

See OSPI's Office of Professional Practices for fingerprinting requirements and information.  more>>