School Volunteer Background Checks:

Protecting Kids & Reducing the Risk

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Who is Mike McCarty?

� CEO SHS

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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

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

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