Backround Checks

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This is my first post. I help run a youth rec league that consists of 20 teams ranging in age from 4 to 13 years old. I am looking for information on a service or company that would be able to run backround checks on all the head coaches as well as the assistant coaches. We started requiring backround checks on the head coaches this year but didn't include the assistant coaches. Any help or advise would be appreciated.

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Don't limit Background Checks to just the Head Coach, what is required for one it should be required for all the coaching staff. What happens if the Head Coach cannot be at a practice or other team function, usually the Assistant Coach and Staff takes over. JMHO!




FASTPITCH! Anything else, And you're playing to SLOW!
 
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Panther.. The easiest way to do it.... is to have the coaches THEMSELVES go to the local sheriff's department and run one on themselves. There is a small fee for it. Each county is different and has a different fee.
 
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A lot of times you can go the the county clerk of courts records of your county and a couple of neightboring counties and get the skinny of almost anybody with a record. You maybe able to work with your local school and get them to run the FBI finger print check.
 
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4thegame said:
A lot of times you can go the the county clerk of courts records of your county and a couple of neightboring counties and get the skinny of almost anybody with a record. You maybe able to work with your local school and get them to run the FBI finger print check.
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This is what I do at the very start. I've had two instances where it was enough and didn't have to do a paid background. Just found one of them yesterday.
 
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I work in law enforcement and this is what I would suggest. Have each person go to the county Sheriffs office and any Police dept jurisdiction that the person has lived in. The sheriff only has record of their cases not the local PDs. Then go online and check all the local court websites (search by name) - common pleas and municipal courts - most counties are online now. All of this info is public information.

In Common Pleas court you also want to look for things like protection order cases - these are not criminal cases unless they are violated but the protected party must prove that the offender has harmed them, stalked them, or threatened them. There are a lot of these now and many times problems occur at ball fields because they want to see their kid play. We run into this every year several times.

This is a lot of info, so if you want more details send me a message.
 
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In PA, the State Police runs a sexual predator data base that our local Little League runs all adults that have anything to do with these kids (girls and boys) through (national requires these checks). We require all managers, coaches, assistants, umpires, field workers and concession stand workers to be cleared. This may seem excessive but it is the only way to be sure that you don't allow a convicted child predator on your fields and near your kids.

An adult that hasn't been convicted or has participated in some kind of rehab program that wipes the slate clean would not be flagged. This process does head off trouble by waiving off those individuals that are predators. I'd recommend that you not take half measures with this issue, for the kids and the volunteers and your program.
 
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Here is a link for registered sex offender in Ohio. You can search by county, offender name, etc.

My personal belief/experience is - the ones to be more afraid of are the ones who haven't been caught yet at all. They could be anyone and anywhere. The ones who have already been in trouble have already been tagged, marked and identified.....and many in a small community already know who they are.

Ohio also has an offender database of all people in prison or on community control (formerly known as parole). Just search ohio offender database in any search engine and you'll find the site. Keep in mind though they only show the current inmates and current parolees not the ones who are done with community control.


http://www.esorn.ag.state.oh.us/Secured/p1.aspx
 
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ASA provides insurance and background checks... the background check is an additional $7.00. I highly recommend to all coaches that you have them take the ACE Certification for $25.00 that includes the background check and some softball coaching training as well. Please contact me at fast2home@yahoo.com if you need more information or help.... or you can call me at 419-343-4716.
Martin Drain
 
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Fast2Home said:
ASA provides insurance and background checks... the background check is an additional $7.00. I highly recommend to all coaches that you have them take the ACE Certification for $25.00 that includes the background check and some softball coaching training as well. Please contact me at fast2home@yahoo.com if you need more information or help.... or you can call me at 419-343-4716.
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Which would make your league ASA sanctioned and then you get the fun these fast pitch coaches have complained about... and go through the web of having problems with the ACE certification program...LOL

Make a form for the people that you want to have checked... have them sign the form giving you/a league president the right to check them... have them pay a fee ( the cost of the check at the local sheriff's department ) and be done with it.

In my opinion and a lot of travel ball coaches opinion... ACE certification is just one big headache !!!!
 
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There is a flaw in the system of background checks. We discovered this a few years ago. If a person is charged and a warrant is issued, but the person comes in on their own (no arrest) and goes through the court process and it ends with a dismissal, reduced charge or a plea agreement and the person never sees a jail then this arrest will not show up on his/her record. Most smaller agencies now do not do finger printing they allow the jail to do it. BUT if the person never goes into the jail, they are never fingerprinted!! This is the only way that the cases can be tracked.

This is why I say to ALSO check your local courts for cases. You would be surprised how many don't show up on a check. Another thing to be aware of, they only put certain cases on their records - traffic, felonies, and violent offenses not your disorderly conducts and things like that.

But the good news.......most of these people really don't want to be your childs coach. Most of these won't even try, thank god, but occasionally someone just doesn't get it and tries to be a coach.

I think we should have psych evals for all coaches!!! ;)
 
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Some umpires and TD's feel "phych testing" should be mandatory as well ...LOL

AND "rule book" training as well and pass the test and class TWICE !!!!
 
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I'm sure some or many may flog me for this opinion, but I think all these checks are a complete waste of time and money done just to satisfy some lawyer. As already mentioned, too many holes in the system, too many ways something won't show up, and most importantly to me tries to fix a problem that really isn't much of a problem. How many problem cases are we talking about nationwide? A couple per year if that? I'd guess it's in the neighborhood of lightning strikes and far far fewer than the number of car accidents on the way to a game or practice. Not to mention game related injuries.

Here's a simple rule of thumb to solve 99.9% of the problem. Don't do anything one on one between the coach and a player. Protects the coach from wrong and harmful accusations and protects the kids.
 
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I agree with ya.. but anymore the courts don't and league associations can be put in peril... by not showing they didn't try beforehand to circumvent possible problems later on down the road.
 
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ExxWhy said:
Here's a simple rule of thumb to solve 99.9% of the problem. Don't do anything one on one between the coach and a player. Protects the coach from wrong and harmful accusations and protects the kids.
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I have followed this since my son was a youngster.
 
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ohioquakerman said:
I agree with ya.. but anymore the courts don't and league associations can be put in peril... by not showing they didn't try beforehand to circumvent possible problems later on down the road.
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Agreed. A "Due Diligence" type of thing. And sometimes the knowledge that a background check will be done deters some.
 
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