Understanding New PA Volunteer

Background Check Law

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Founder/CEO Safe Hiring Solutions

Founder SafeVisitor & AutoRefCheck

Violent Crime Detective Metro Nashville PD

3,500 clients

Provide violence prevention training/ consulting:

U.S. Dept of Justice

U.S. Dept of Defense

U.S. Homeland Security

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

National Sheriff’s Assoc

Indiana Law Enforcement Training Academy

Numerous State Attorney General Offices

How These Type of Laws are Enacted

CSI Impact

Legislatures rely heavily on state police as advisors

Law enforcement are not experts on criminal records

(me, wife, father, grandfather, cousin, brother all

police)

Most policy makers not familiar with private

companies that provide these services

Most organizations/ people passively allow policies

to be passed

We need to be active

How to Be Active

Unify- Band Together

We have heard from 100’s of PA churches

Hundreds of volunteer organizations impacted

New Law most sweeping volunteer legislation in

the U.S.

Most invasive for volunteers

Most costly

Will deplete budgets and volunteer base

FBI Background Checks Not the Gold Standard

Wanted FBI Accurate Background Checks Study

2013 National Law Project Study

600,000 people incorrectly labeled annually

FBI Database missing 50% of dispositions (U.S.

Attorney General Study 2006)

FBI/ NCIC not created as a background

screening tool

Must Become Active in Your Legislative Process

Success in Indiana

Actively engage with our policy makers

Testified yesterday on bill for school employees Allows private companies

Passed 12-0 out of committee

Defines how private companies must conduct background checks

Requires education policy makers

Reality is that private companies are much cheaper, faster and more complete WITH consumer protections

Become Active..We will help

Dealing with Current Law….

What does the new law require:

PA State Police Background Check

PA Child Abuse Clearance/Background Check

And if your volunteer has lived outside of PA in the past

10 years:

FBI Background Check

How To Proceed

We can conduct:

PA State Police Background Check &

PA Child Abuse Background Check

How this works

Collect authorization

Enter into our system with email address of volunteer

We send volunteer email & unique prepaid code that

they login and request child abuse check

We receive both reports and upload into our system

If Volunteer Requires FBI Check

FBI background checks can only be completed through the fingerprint and the certified “channelercontracted by the state.

PA requires volunteer to go here to pay for and schedule fingerprint collections:

https://www.pa.cogentid.com/index_dpw.htm

Our Packages

We have added SSN Verification to determine

other names and address history

We have also added a national criminal database

search since most volunteers will only be a

statewide PA search

We will create guides for child abuse check

Also looking at streamlining this process to do it

all internally but very difficult getting questions

answered…each person has different response

Considerations

PSBA (PA School Board Assoc) Memo Dated

12/4/2014:

“Effective 12/31/2014, new volunteers must have

clearances in order to be approved for their

positions. Effective July 1, 2015, existing volunteers

who do not already have clearances and those

volunteers with clearances that will be older than 3

years must obtain the required clearances.”

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Mike McCarty

CEO

Safe Hiring Solutions

Danville, IN 46122

317-745-6946

Mike.mccarty@safehiringsolutions.com

www.safehiringsolutions.com