[MR] Society Notice

[Mel Joines]

If it is a matter of the $700.00 the background checks will cost the
Kingdom. Then to protect Our young people let each adult wanting to work
with minors pay for their own background checks. If a person has
anything to hide, they will stay as far away from Our children as they can.
The individual price of 3 large
pizza's is a minor price to pay to protect Our Women and Children.

In Service
Lord Melcher Lloyd of Hawkwood


On 4/11/07, Wayne (Axel) Remes <wremes at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I should probably point out in case anyone missed it. I cced the director
> of
> BOD on the original email. I thought that it would be a good idea because
> it
> would give you his email address if you wanted to write him an irate
> letter...I got it his email address out of the Acorn. Upon reflection it
> might not have been such a good idea, as if you generally do a reply all
> to
> get a reply easily to the Mary Rose you'll be sending him a copy too, even
> if you don't want to.  If you don't want your response to go to the
> director
> of the BOD make sure you remove him from the CC line if he's there.
>
> Axel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Wayne (Axel) Remes
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:35 PM
> To: 'Merry Rose'
> Cc: jwilliams at director.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] Society Notice
>
>
> You gotta be kidding me...and the Kingdom's gonna have to bankroll the
> background checks of every Youth Marshal. Youth MIT, Children's Activities
> Minister from Canton thru kingdom, are they insane!
>
> Looking at the Kingdom webpage we currently have 17 youth Marshals, 8
> Youth
> MITs, the Earl Marshal, and 7 Chancellor of Youth staff positions. No idea
> how many local minister of youth offices are filled. Assuming that they
> use
> something like NC123 at 19.95 a pop just to meet the requirements with the
> inadequate people resources we got now is gonna cost the Kingdom $638.00
> probably a lot more, and that's the low end of the scale, if they do any
> sort of real background check it's cost more. We desperately need more
> people involved in all these activities, and should not be making it
> harder
> to get people involved. Leave it to the BOD to, instead of coming up with
> rational procedures like say...requiring there to be at least 2 adults
> present at all times at youth activities at a SCA event, or requiring the
> kids parents be in attendance at any local SCA non event activity, the BOD
> comes up with this stupidity.
>
>
> And I might add it is NOT "...WORTH NOTING that these measures are less
> stringent than those being used today by the Boy Scouts of America."
> We don't as normal planned events take kids out into the woods for
> prolonged
> periods without their parents being there. In fact Parents are discouraged
> from dropping their kids at SCA functions and leaving site.
>
> This is bullshit....and ranks right up there with the Banning of ALL
> minors
> from the list field even if they were already authorized and had parental
> approval to be there, as occured in the mid 80s.
>
>
>
> Axel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Amy Heilveil
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:35 AM
> To: Merry Rose; Attilium at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [MR] Society Notice
>
> Passing along information.... Despina
>
> > In response to repeated occurences of the SCA having to deal with abuse
> of
> > minors by SCA participants, risk to our membership from such predatorial
> > behavior, and legal liabilities if we fail to execute proper due
> > diligence, the SCA will be implementing a background check program to
> > minimize risk of harm to our people and the organization. This program
> > will revolve around conducting--via a properly licensed
> vendor--background
> > checks on all persons wishing to serve in a leadership or supervisory
> > position where minors are expected to be taking direction from--or be in
> > the direct control of adults who are not their parent or legal guardian.
> >
> > An example of officials who must receive the background check
> are:  Youth
> > activities officers at all levels, Adults acting as youth marshals for
> any
> > martial activity, persons organizing/in charge of youth activities for
> an
> > event.
> >
> > These checks will return a pass/fail status.  A pass status will cause
> the
> > corporate office to issue a card good for two years that must be
> presented
> > in order to be accepted as an official as described above.
> >
> > It is expected that this process will be streamlined and simplified as
> > much as possible without invalidating the value of the background checks
> > themselves.  The cost of the checks will be billed back to the Kingdoms
> > whose programs these volunteers are supporting.
> >
> > It is worth noting that these measures are less stringent than those
> being
> > used today by the Boy Scouts of America.
> >
> > Further details, to include the actual process and an implement-by date
> > will accompany the implementing guidelines to be issued after the April
> > Board Meeting.
> >
> >
> >
> > Aaron Faheud Swiftrunner of the Stone Keep OL OP
> > c/o George L. Reed
> >
> > Society Seneschal and Vice President of Operations
> > SCA, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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