INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana lawmakers are reviewing the state’s teacher licensing process and looking for ways to prevent perverts from working in schools, two months after a local news station revealed the Department of Education failed to revoke the licenses of several convicted pedophiles.

The Indy Channel in May highlighted numerous former educators in Indiana who have been convicted of various sex crimes with students who continue to maintain a “valid” teaching certificate with the Indiana Department of Education.

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“Former Greenwood High School teacher Timothy Guilfoy, caught having sex with a student, pleaded guilty in 2014 to two counts of felony child seduction. Yet current records show Guilfoy’s license is listed as ‘valid’ on the Indiana Department of Education website,” the news site reports.

“Similarly, former Noblesville High School teacher Michael Douce pleaded guilty in August 2015 to two counts of child seduction for inappropriate relationships with two female students. He is currently serving prison time, but the IDOE website shows his license as ‘valid.’”

The Indy Channel revealed that state law requires the Indiana Department of Education to hold a hearing and revoke the licenses of educators convicted of certain crimes, including child seduction, sexual misconduct with a minor and other offenses, but does not provide a timeline for the revocations.

“I am very concerned, and I am sure all legislators will be concerned,” Republican state Rep. Robert Behning, Chairman of the House Committee on Education, told the news site two months ago.

“We are definitely interested in the safety of the children, and when we find out the law isn’t being followed,” he said.  “The (law says) the license shall be revoked if they’ve been convicted of child seduction, or any time of child sexual act, and we want to make sure that’s swift.”

Glenda Ritz, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction – a Democrat running for re-election, blamed the problem on country prosecutors. State law requires prosecutors to report convictions for child seduction and sexual misconduct and other crimes to the IDOE, but claimed prosecutors are not fulfilling their obligations, The Indy Channel reports.

“Unfortunately, some prosecutors in our state are unaware of this requirement and have not provided immediate notification to the Department,” Ritz wrote in a letter sent to all prosecutors in the state in May. “Any lack of immediate notification has the potential to delay action taken against an individual’s license.”

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The new site confirmed that several prosecutors were unaware of the requirement.

On Monday, an Interim Study Committee on Education discussed ways to prevent predators from gaining employment in schools before they commit a crime, and how to improve reporting and the license revocation process for who abuse students or commit serious crimes.

Behning told the news site he believes the requirement for a license hearing for educators convicted of such crimes is “redundant” and the state should move more quickly to revoke their licenses.

“That is all the due process that is necessary to immediately suspend a license,” he said of a criminal conviction.

Sen. Jim Merritt agreed that lawmakers must streamline the license revocation process.

“It needs to be efficient and it needs to be quick and the public needs to know,” he said. “We have to have the very best people in Indiana with teaching licenses.”

Lawmakers also discussed an apparent lack of criminal background checks for a large portion of the state’s teachers.

Mike McCarty, CEO of Safe Hiring Solutions, told The Indy Channel that “probably 40 to 50 percent of school employees in Indiana have never had a national background check since it was required in 2009.”

“I have a sincere interest in looking at that,” said Merritt. “Five years is too long (between checks).  We need to find some sort of time frame where everybody is rechecked that is employed by our schools.”

Other lawmakers pointed out that many educators suspected of inappropriate sexual contact with students secure deals through their teachers unions that allow them to resign with a letter of recommendation, and such deals won’t show up in a criminal background check.

“You have to call and gather the information, you can’t just hire someone,” Merritt said.

Others, like Democratic Rep. Vernon Smith, attempted to argue that the teachers are not always to blame for inappropriate sexual situations with students.

“Sometimes it’s not always the adult that’s the aggressor,” said Smith, a strong advocate for the Indiana State Teachers Association, the statewide teachers union. “Sometimes students are the aggressors. Things like, ‘oh you have pretty eyes,’ or ‘I like your car’ are triggers to get people drown into situations.”

The committee is expected to meet again next month, on August 15, to discuss educator sexual misconduct with officials with the IDOE, The Indy Channel reports.