Do you rely on the Indiana Limited Criminal History to keep your organization safe? View these slides to better understand the limitations of this criminal database and why Indiana school districts can no longer use it for employment purposes.

1. How Limited is the Indiana Limited
Criminal History Check?
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3. Who is Mike McCarty?
 CEO SHS
 Metro Nashville PD
 Domestic Violence Division
 Breaking the Cycle
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4. Why We Are Here?
 Safety of Kids
 Understand limitations
of many volunteer
screening programs
 Explore best practices
 Approach screening as
a moral issue not a
legal issue

5. “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

6. 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

7. Potential Problems with IN Limited
Criminal History
 2004 Indianapolis Star
Expose
 High SOR Failure Rates
 Counties Required to Send
Criminal Records to State
 Statute Not Punitive
 Only Class A
Misdemeanors & Above
 Only Indiana

8. Best Practices
Requires multiple layers of
checks and balances:
 Person ID/ SSN
Verification
 National Criminal
Database
 National Sex Offender
 County Criminal Search

9. 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

10. Questions?
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