understanding new pennsylvania volunteer background check law
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Understanding New PA Volunteer
Background Check Law
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Founder/CEO Safe Hiring Solutions
Founder SafeVisitor & AutoRefCheck
Violent Crime Detective Metro Nashville PD
3,500 clients
Provide violence prevention training/ consulting:
U.S. Dept of Justice
U.S. Dept of Defense
U.S. Homeland Security
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
National Sheriff’s Assoc
Indiana Law Enforcement Training Academy
Numerous State Attorney General Offices
How These Type of Laws are Enacted
CSI Impact
Legislatures rely heavily on state police as advisors
Law enforcement are not experts on criminal records
(me, wife, father, grandfather, cousin, brother all
police)
Most policy makers not familiar with private
companies that provide these services
Most organizations/ people passively allow policies
to be passed
We need to be active
How to Be Active
Unify- Band Together
We have heard from 100’s of PA churches
Hundreds of volunteer organizations impacted
New Law most sweeping volunteer legislation in
the U.S.
Most invasive for volunteers
Most costly
Will deplete budgets and volunteer base
FBI Background Checks Not the Gold Standard
Wanted FBI Accurate Background Checks Study
2013 National Law Project Study
600,000 people incorrectly labeled annually
FBI Database missing 50% of dispositions (U.S.
Attorney General Study 2006)
FBI/ NCIC not created as a background
screening tool
Must Become Active in Your Legislative Process
Success in Indiana
Actively engage with our policy makers
Testified yesterday on bill for school employees Allows private companies
Passed 12-0 out of committee
Defines how private companies must conduct background checks
Requires education policy makers
Reality is that private companies are much cheaper, faster and more complete WITH consumer protections
Become Active..We will help
Dealing with Current Law….
What does the new law require:
PA State Police Background Check
PA Child Abuse Clearance/Background Check
And if your volunteer has lived outside of PA in the past
10 years:
FBI Background Check
How To Proceed
We can conduct:
PA State Police Background Check &
PA Child Abuse Background Check
How this works
Collect authorization
Enter into our system with email address of volunteer
We send volunteer email & unique prepaid code that
they login and request child abuse check
We receive both reports and upload into our system
If Volunteer Requires FBI Check
FBI background checks can only be completed through the fingerprint and the certified “channelercontracted by the state.
PA requires volunteer to go here to pay for and schedule fingerprint collections:
https://www.pa.cogentid.com/index_dpw.htm
Our Packages
We have added SSN Verification to determine
other names and address history
We have also added a national criminal database
search since most volunteers will only be a
statewide PA search
We will create guides for child abuse check
Also looking at streamlining this process to do it
all internally but very difficult getting questions
answered…each person has different response
Considerations
PSBA (PA School Board Assoc) Memo Dated
12/4/2014:
“Effective 12/31/2014, new volunteers must have
clearances in order to be approved for their
positions. Effective July 1, 2015, existing volunteers
who do not already have clearances and those
volunteers with clearances that will be older than 3
years must obtain the required clearances.”
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Mike McCarty
CEO
Safe Hiring Solutions
Danville, IN 46122
317-745-6946
www.safehiringsolutions.com