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Besides, as a colleague on the softball board wisely points out... Background checks only identify those that have already been caught.
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Actually, I think the request for background checks weeds out more people than the procuring and reading of the background check does.
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I had to submit to a background check to be registered to officiate with the MN State High School League. Didn't cost me anything that I can recall. I believe it was in response to a new law passed by the MN legislature.
Associations don't do background checks, nor should they IMHO. But they do check to make sure you're registered with the high school league (and if you fail the background check, you won't be registered). IIRC, the background check is good for 3 or 4 years. |
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But if we assume he's guilty and eventually convicted, then a BC should pick that up ... and wouldn't that be the point of the BC - to keep it from happening again?
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I'm wondering ... has there been any sort of follow up information on this story? I still don't believe the whole thing - too many not believable things in it.
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We aren't alone with kids. They need to give the head bagger at the local supermarket a background check before they do it to officials. Catholic schools went into panic mode when the priest sex scandal broke and adopted all sorts of rules requiring everyone from cafeteria ladies to the principal to undergo training and checks so they could claim they checked everybody who had any contact with a child. It was a product of the lack of supervision by a variety of dioceses over priests and was equal parts prevention and public relations. Officials will soon be in the same boat after nitwit school board members try to grab some ink by proposing it. and anyone who objects will branded as having "something to hide." The thing is, the pervs are going after kids who they get in private after gaining their trust; they're not getting jobs reffing a ballgame in front of the kids' parents so they can get fresh with kids. |
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But we're close enough to them and can be around them enough to gain their trust....and perhaps turn that into something more. It has happened here and will happen again. It would have happened near here had our neighboring organization not done such a check....that prevented the person that got caught in our our from joining a different one. When it happens to someone you know, you'll wonder why the organization didn't bother to require a simple and cheap criminal history check that likely would have shown the offender to have a history. It doesn't have to be a through and expensive check...the basc checks are enough.
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How many times have we had kids walk into our dressing areas to get something for coach, or to pick up some homework they left in that office?
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I think we have a solution clearly looking for a problem if people feel this will prevent all interactions that would be deemed inappropriate with officials. Peace
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