A township in Pennsylvania is letting sporting groups know they’ll face monetary consequences for failing to offer evidence coaches have passed criminal and sex offender checks.
Peters Township Parks and Recreation will now level a $500 fine against any organization or group, which cannot provide documentation their coaches, have undergone a criminal background check with the Pennsylvania State Police.
The Peters Township council passed a 2006 ordinance requiring the background checks. If anyone thought they could blow off the background screening process before, perhaps a hit to their wallet might make them think otherwise.
Michelle Harmel, Director of Peters Township Parks and Recreation Department, said, “The difficulty hasn’t been with getting people to get their clearances, but it’s been difficult to achieve 100 percent compliance with the policy.”
Nine separate sporting organizations presently make use of the fields and 100 percent compliance has been somewhat of an elusive maintained standard.
Some of the sports groups have had difficulty getting coaches to take the time to have the background screenings conducted. Some of the other organizations have simply been unreachable despite multiple outreach attempts.
“They tell us that their coaches are volunteers and it’s hard to get them to do the background checks,” she said. “Short of saying it’s inconvenient for them, it’s what we are being told.”
And it’s not as though Peters Township has made the screening process an ugly maze of time-consuming red tape. Temporary certifications are available for coaches and volunteers online through the Pennsylvania State Police while the main security clearance is processed.
Requirements across the various sports groups and organizations are inconsistent, with some calling for proper clearances for coaches while others apparently don’t have any such requirements on the books.
We all know about the potential negative consequences when sports clubs and athletic associations fail to properly screen coaches and volunteers. If it takes monetary fines to wake people up to the importance of background screening then so be it.
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