How doe we protect our organizations in a dangerous world? This 30 minute webinar discusses best practices in volunteer background screening and how to avoid the clever marketing that claims you can conduct national background checks for $9 or less and instantly.
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How to conduct comprehensive volunteer background checks
1. How to Conduct Comprehensive Volunteer
Background Checks
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Does your current volunteer screening program keep you up at night?
2. Presenter
Mike McCarty
•CEO SHS
•Metro Nashville PD
•Domestic Violence
Division
•Breaking the Cycle
•eReferenceCheck
3. Why We Are Here?
Safety of Kids
Understand limitations
of many volunteer
screening programs
Explore best practices
Moral or legal issue
4. “Something is Better Than Nothing…”
This is a legal perspective
Focused on legal risk mitigation
instead of safety of children
Cheap background check provides
false 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
5. Sophisticated Perpetrators
Sex offenders will take
unbelievable risks
Volunteers = much higher volume
Do not have to be alone to harm
kids
Do not have to be unsupervised to
harm kids
Those that harm kids
always seek
positions with
access to children
6. 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
8. Criminal Databases
No such thing as $9 or $10
background check
No such thing as an instant
background 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 database searches
9. Problems with “national” criminal databases
Data varies from state
to state
Handful of states
provide AOC data
Majority of states only
provide SOR and DOC
How database
configured
Name & DOB
Most states partial or no
DOB
10. State Repositories
Not complete
Only a single state
Rely on individual
counties to participate
Ex. ISP Repository
Sex offender data
missing
Many counties not
participating
Class A misd and above
11. 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
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
12. Best Practices
Requires multiple layers of
checks and balances:
Person ID/ SSN
Verification
National Criminal
Database
National Sex Offender
County Criminal Search
13. Legal Issues
Southport, Indiana Little League
No background checks
Coach molested 2 boys in out
building fitting uniforms
Little league found negligent
under negligent hiring
doctrine
Predatory in the Primary
Applying negligent hiring to
volunteers
Increasing cases
14. 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
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?
15. We don’t have any money….
1st quality screening must
become a priority
Volunteer pays for part or all
of background check
Gaining popularity
Make background check valid
for 2-5 years
School absorbs hardships
16. ATS Paperless Background Checks
ATS link programmed &
placed on your website
Applicant driven
Click on link
Sign e-authorization
Input their data
Pay with credit/debit card
Report returned to school
17. Special Offer Thru 1/15/2013
We have special not-for-profit pricing for clients
who sign up before 1/15/2013:
Level I National Background Check $13.95
SSN Verification
National Crim Database
National Sex Offender
County Crim Search
18. Questions?
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Contact:
Mike McCarty
Mike.mccarty@safehiringsolutions.com
888-215-8296