Learn how to reduce your risk and protect the kids with quality volunteer background checks.

1. School Volunteer Background Checks:
Protecting Kids & Reducing the Risk
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4. Why Are We Here?
Safety of Kids
Understand limitations
of many volunteer
screening programs
Explore best practices
Approach screening as
a moral issue not a
legal issue

5. “Something-Is-Better-Than-Nothing” Model
This is a legal perspective
Focused on legal risk mitigation
instead of safety of children
Cheap background check provides
false sense of security
Limited background checks expose:
Children, visitors, staff to risk of
harm
Organization to risk of theft
Organization to risk of liability for
lack of due diligence
Quality screening mitigates legal risk
and increases safety of children

6. Sophisticated Perpetrators
Sex offenders will take
unbelievable risks
Volunteers = much
higher volume
Do not have to be alone
to harm kids
Do not have to be
Those that harm kids always
unsupervised to harm
seek positions with access
to children kids

7. Are We Doing Enough?
Sex offenders dedicated &
determined
Background Screening industry
has promoted cheap background
checks for volunteers
Protecting children requires:
comprehensive criminal
record checks
reference checks
Majority of rapists
undetected

8. The Use & Misuse of
Criminal Databases

9. Criminal Databases
No such thing as $9 or $10
background check
No such thing as an instant
background check
No criminal database is
complete
A criminal database is a tool
not a screening program
Background screening
industry is negligent in
promoting these cheap

10. Problems with “national” criminal databases
Data varies from state to
state
Handful of states provide
AOC data
Majority of states only
provide SOR and DOC
How database configured
Name & DOB
Most states partial or no
DOB

11. State Repositories
Not complete
Only a single state
Rely on individual counties
to participate
Ex. ISP Repository
Sex offender data missing
Many counties not
participating
Class A misd and above

12. Sex Offender Registries
Not updated regularly
IN teachers aid convicted of Child
Molesting
11 months to show on SOR
Does not contain all sex offenders
Some states based on classification
If conviction before registry not
required- IN court recent ruling
Plea bargain could remove registry
requirement
Some states have time limits such as
10 yrs
Great tool- not a screening program

13. Best Practices
Requires multiple layers of
checks and balances:
Person ID/ SSN Verification
National Criminal Database
National Sex Offender
County Criminal Search

14. Legal Issues
Southport, Indiana Little League
No background checks
Coach molested 2 boys in out
building fitting uniforms
Little league found negligent under
negligent hiring doctrine
Predatory in the Primary
Applying negligent hiring to
volunteers
Increasing cases

15. Potential Problems with IN ECHS
2009 State of Indiana enacts ECH Statute
Removes ISP Limited Criminal History as
option for schools to use with hiring or
vendor/contractors
Many districts still use for volunteers
because free
Why if you know it is bad data?
How do you defend a claim if a volunteer
harms a child?
Attorney will always say you did not do
enough
Could you defend this database on the
witness stand?

16. We don’t have any money….
1st quality screening must
become a priority
Volunteer pays for part or all
of background check
Gaining popularity
Make background check valid
for 2-5 years
School absorbs hardships

17. ATS Paperless Background Checks
ATS link programmed &
placed on your website
Applicant driven
Click on link
Sign e-authorization
Input their data
Pay with credit/debit card
Report returned to school

18. Special Offer
Until June 30, schools can get
a special rate for volunteer
background checks:
$15.95 for Level I
$26.95 for Level III

19. Questions?
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