More background check incidents....

[chapmaja]

Maybe it is time for one organization to oversee all background checks for all umpires/coaches/volunteers working with youth sports.

Doing multiple sports for multiple organizations, I have to have a background check run for each different organization. It does get a bit tiresome, and costly.

Add in the fact that I work in education, and am required to be fingerprinted for work purposes and have regular background checks run as well.

Maybe one organization handling all background checks would just make things so much easier.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

...Add in the fact that I work in education, and am required to be fingerprinted for work purposes and have regular background checks run as well. ...

It seems every other week there is another teacher in the news for a sexual offense with a student.

So, how well is that fingerprinting and background checking working out for the education establishment?

Clearly, (well, clearly to ME), this is all about liability limitation for the organizations themselves and very little about protecting anyone from anything.

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Clearly, (well, clearly to ME), this is all about liability limitation for the organizations themselves and very little about protecting anyone from anything.

And ASA even says so.
"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. "

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by CecilOne

And ASA even says so.
"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. "

And when someone is certified by a sanctioning body through a BI, does that now make them liable since apparently their system failed?

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

Maybe one organization handling all background checks would just make things so much easier.

NO NO NO. Please think about the effect of centralizing personal information.