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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?
Select speakers or Phone
on Webinar tab
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Who is Mike McCarty?
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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