“We had 66 real estate salespeople and 20 real estate brokers whose names matched names on the sex-offender list,” said Susan Hofer, a Department of Financial and Professional Regulation spokeswoman.
“We acted on all of them,” Hofer said. Several already had been disciplined by the state, some have since been through the process and the others are awaiting hearings, she said.
– From Mary Umberger’s article in the Sunday Tribune about the lack of mandatory background checks for real estate professionals in Illinois. The 86 people Hofer mentions were found during a cross-reference of a million Illinois licensees with the state’s sex-offender registry.
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