by Protect Youth Sports | Nov 9, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Evidence that led to the arrest of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle on child porn and child sex charges is finally surfacing. The evidence – recordings of conversations Fogle had with an FBI informant – shed light on the inner workings of a child...
by Protect Youth Sports | Oct 26, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Communities in California were stunned earlier this school year when a charter school employee was arrested for allegedly luring an 8-year-old student to a secluded area at the school and molesting her. Jonathan Chow, an 18 year-old lunchtime aide employed by the...
by Protect Youth Sports | Oct 14, 2015 | Industry News
There is a nearly universal expectation that when we sign our children up for sports, they will be safe. Parents put an enormous amount of trust into the people who are caring and coaching our kids, some of whom spend upwards of 10 hours a week playing sports. Helping...
by Protect Youth Sports | Sep 28, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
A parks and recreation department in Missouri found itself the subject an embarrassing public call out by a parent who discovered a felon among the coaching ranks of a youth soccer group. Here’s the actual letter from the parent: Hey Mr. Pokin! I’m asking for your...
by Protect Youth Sports | Sep 14, 2015 | Industry News
Many youth sports organizations begin from the ground up. Some well-intentioned person, or perhaps a few parents, see(s) the need for a grassroots startup to give children an opportunity to participate in a sport. It’s a great way to bring communities together and to...
by Protect Youth Sports | Aug 24, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
If you’re one of the few local or community-level youth sports organizations that has a coherent and comprehensive screening policy, we applaud you. You’re a rarity and clearly you’ve taken proactive measures to keep your employees, volunteers and child participants...
by Protect Youth Sports | Aug 10, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
“Legal experts have one main thing to say to employers considering using social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram as an initial job-candidate screening tool: Don’t do it. According to a recent survey from Careerbuilder, more employers are turning to...
by Protect Youth Sports | Aug 3, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
So, you know you want to screen coaches involved in your program, but you have no idea where to start. Sound familiar? Well, first, we’re glad you found us. Protect Youth Sports is the premiere background screening agency for youth sports programs across the nation....
by Protect Youth Sports | Jul 20, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
When youth sports programs make the proactive measure to protect its child participants from predators by using background checks, we can only applaud them. Background checks are the single most effective tool youth organizations can onboard to keep participants,...
by Protect Youth Sports | Jul 6, 2015 | Industry News
Sometimes it’s not what a background check turns up, but what a successful screening program can do to alert people of suspect behavior. Case in point: A 13-year-old cheerleader from Colorado has come forward claiming her coach sexually assaulted her. She says the...
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