More background check incidents....

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Thank God we live in a free and democratic......er, never mind.

Here is the original e-mail from OKC:

From: John Miller [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 11:59 AM
To: John Miller
Cc: YZ - Department Heads; zz - RegisterASA Staff
Subject: ASA Mandatory Background Check Policy For 2015 Season



Good Morning Council Members,

I hope you all enjoyed Easter yesterday. This is the last email for actions taken by the ASA Board of Directors at their March 29 board meeting.

ASA has in place a background check screening process to help keep our youth players safe from those that seek to harm them. Over the last five years ASA has run more than 300,000 background check reports in an effort to keep those that would want to harm our youth players out of our program.

There are state/metro associations that require their umpires and administrators to pass a background check in order to umpire or serve as a team or league administrators so these associations are setting the standard.

During the March 29 board meeting the ASA Board of Directors established a national policy for background checking council members, umpires and RegisterASA team/league administrators. This policy would take affect starting with the 2015 season.

Council members, umpires working Junior Olympic Championship play and all RegisterASA administrators shall pass an ASA background check.

Now that the state/metro associations have the choice of starting their Junior Olympic season on either September 1 or January 1 those starting on September 1 and using RegisterASA would have to have their RegisterASA admins pass a background check before being able to register their individuals for a team or league. Those same September 1 state/metro associations that would schedule JO championship qualifiers after September 1 would need to background check those umpires that would be working JO championship play.

Only an ASA background check report will be allowed to verify that a council member, umpire or RegisterASA admin has passed a background check. This must be done in case ASA has to prove that a council member, umpire or RegisterASA admin has passed a background check in any litigation brought before ASA. The background check reports will have to be run annually.

As any new policy is put into place there will be many questions. Please direct those questions to me and I will get them answered for you.