“…In 2010, the province of Misiones took a step forward by mandating that public and private institutions carrying out activities involving children, people with disabilities and the elderly request a certificate of sex offences prior to offering any type of employment. Later on, similar provisions were introduced in other countries such as Chile (2012), Colombia (2018), Peru (2018), Uruguay (2019), Ecuador (2019) and Paraguay (2020; Fernández Ramírez, 2020; Luque-Gonzalez and Medina-Chico, 2018; Pérez Riquelme, 2018). The reforms implied greater accessibility of these records to third parties and further restrictions on taking up employment, especially where contact with children or the elderly is involved.…”