“I’ve had corporate professionals, all the way up to a medical doctor, come to me and say, ‘I went to apply for this job, and they said I came up on this Child Abuse and Neglect Registry and I had no idea,” said attorney Jacy Fisher of Greg Varner Law Firm in Birmingham.
What’s worse, family attorneys told News 5, is that it is way too easy to end up on it and nearly impossible to get off of it, even after a court decides you did nothing wrong.
But a new policy may offer a glimmer of hope to some people who, for years, have battled the bureaucracy of the Alabama Department of Human Resources to clear their reputation.
