Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Although Americans have high expectations when it comes to background checks on volunteers, a survey from an insurer of nonprofits, schools, and houses of worship found a sharp contrast between what respondents expected in terms of volunteer screening and the actual screening that volunteers reported experiencing. The “Risk…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Team Rubicon, “a non-profit that has helped veterans respond to more than 500 humanitarian disasters during the past decade,” is engaging former service members to help reduce the risk of exposure to vulnerable communities that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is posing to the United States, CNN reported.…
Written By Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) – the global authority for the background screening profession – has selected Dawn Standerwick, the Vice President of Strategic Growth at Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), as the NAPBS Volunteer of the Month for May 2019. Standerwick – who was elected Chair…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A man arrested on suspicion of murder who had a lengthy criminal record admitted he falsified his date of birth on a volunteer job application and provided false information for a background check to coach children in a Charlotte youth football league, according to a report from…
Written By Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) – a leading global background screening firm – has prepared a free online Child Protection Training Resource Guide designed to create awareness among non-mandated reporters about the signs and circumstances surrounding child abuse. The guide is a narrated and animated PowerPoint video lasting thirty-five minutes and…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 17, 2018, the U.S. Youth Soccer Association and its Northern California affiliate agreed to pay $8.2 million to settle a lawsuit over their failure to properly run background checks on a coach who was later convicted of sexually abusing a 13-year-old player, according to a…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has approved a series of revisions to the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” that includes requiring all people who have contact with minors to undergo background checks, according to a story from the National Catholic Reporter (NCR).
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In a story that shows “how” background checks are performed is just as important as “if” they are performed, an inmate who shot and killed two bailiffs and wounded two others during an escape attempt at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, Michigan on July 11,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) has launched a campaign to pass his bipartisan legislation – Child Protection Improvements and Electronic Life and Safety Security Systems Act of 2015 – that would change the federal law preventing summer camps and other not-for-profit youth organizations from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has signed House Bill 1276 to help clarify the state’s new law regarding background check clearances for employees and volunteers who have direct and routine contact with children. A copy of Pennsylvania HB 1276, which takes effect immediately, is available at https://www.esrcheck.com/file/PennsylvaniaHouseBill1276.pdf.
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