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Learn how to reduce your risk and protect the kids with quality volunteer background checks.
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School Volunteer Background Checks:
Protecting Kids & Reducing the Risk
The Webinar will begin shortly. While you are waiting please answer the following question using Twitter: @SHSscreening
Are you confident in your current volunteer background screening program? Why or Why Not?
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Who is Mike McCarty?
� CEO SHS
� Metro Nashville PD
� Domestic Violence Division
� Breaking the Cycle
� iRefCheck
Why Are We Here?
� Safety of Kids
� Understand limitations
of many volunteer
screening programsscreening programs
� Explore best practices
� Approach screening as
a moral issue not a
legal issue
“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 securityfalse 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
Sophisticated Perpetrators
� Sex offenders will take
unbelievable risks
� Volunteers = much
higher volume
Those that harm kids always
seek positions with access
to children
higher volume
� Do not have to be alone
to harm kids
� Do not have to be
unsupervised to harm
kids
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
The Use & Misuse of
Criminal Databases
Criminal Databases
� No such thing as $9 or $10
background check
� No such thing as an instant
background checkbackground 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
Problems with “national” criminal databases
� Data varies from state to
state
� Handful of states provide
AOC dataAOC data
� Majority of states only
provide SOR and DOC
� How database configured
� Name & DOB
� Most states partial or no
DOB
State Repositories
� Not complete
� Only a single state
� Rely on individual counties
to participateto participate
� Ex. ISP Repository
� Sex offender data missing
� Many counties not
participating
� Class A misd and above
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� 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
Best Practices
Requires multiple layers of
checks and balances:
Person ID/ SSN Verification� Person ID/ SSN Verification
� National Criminal Database
� National Sex Offender
� County Criminal Search
Legal Issues
Southport, Indiana Little League
� No background checks
� Coach molested 2 boys in out
building fitting uniformsbuilding fitting uniforms
� Little league found negligent under
negligent hiring doctrine
Predatory in the Primary
� Applying negligent hiring to
volunteers
� Increasing cases
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 � 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?
We don’t have any money….
� 1st quality screening must
become a priority
� Volunteer pays for part or all
of background checkof background check
� Gaining popularity
� Make background check valid
for 2-5 years
� School absorbs hardships
ATS Paperless Background Checks
� ATS link programmed &
placed on your website
� Applicant driven
� Click on link� Click on link
� Sign e-authorization
� Input their data
� Pay with credit/debit card
� Report returned to school
Special Offer
Until June 30, schools can get
a special rate for volunteer
background checks:
� $15.95 for Level I � $15.95 for Level I
� $26.95 for Level III
Questions?
� Send questions to Twitter: @SHSscreening
� Sign up for blog: info.safehiringsolutions.com
� Upcoming Webinars:� Upcoming Webinars:
� Social Media Background Checks Policy
Development, 6/15/ 2PM EST
� Child Sex Offenders: How They Select, Seduce,
Maintain and Dump Victims 6/23 2PM EST