Evacuees must submit to checks
From Times Wire Reports
Texans who board buses to evacuate during the next hurricane or other emergency will first have to submit to criminal background checks, the state’s emergency management director said.
The policy is an attempt to keep sex offenders and fugitives from boarding evacuation buses with children, the elderly and the disabled, said Jack Colley, the chief of the state’s Division of Emergency Management.
No sex offenders or other criminals will be left behind in an evacuation, but they will be evacuated on separate buses.
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