O.C.G.A. § 49-5-73 (2019)

(b) A license is subject to suspension or revocation and the department may refuse to issue a license if a director or employee does not undergo the records and fingerprint checks applicable to that director or employee and receive satisfactory determinations.

(c) After the issuance of a license, the department may require a fingerprint records check on any director or employee to confirm identification for records search purposes, when the department has reason to believe the employee has a criminal record that renders the employee ineligible to have contact with children in the center, or during the course of a child abuse investigation involving the director or employee.

(d) No center may hire any person as an employee unless there is on file in the center an employment history and a satisfactory preliminary records check or, if the preliminary records check determination revealed a criminal record of any kind as to such person, either satisfactory state and satisfactory national records check determinations for that person or proof that an unsatisfactory determination has been reversed in accordance with Code Section 49-5-73.

(e) A director of a facility having an employee whom that director knows or should reasonably know to have a criminal record that

PROGRAMS & PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN renders the employee ineligible to have contact with children in the center shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.