[MR] Safety

[morgul at sc.rr.com]

As a scout leader at the unit, district, and council level, allow me to briefly answer this.
There isn't a police conduct statement, but rather a background check.  Leaders are all subjected to a background check before they are allowed to serve as leaders.  In addition, leaders are REQUIRED to undergo Youth Protection Training every 2 years, which spells out the policies of two-deep leadership and other youth protection issues.  BSA takes youth protection very seriously, and anyone violating it is removed immediately.
Any serious crimes, including sex abuse, would automatically disqualify a person for leadership.  Cases such as you describe would not be an automatic disqualification, but would be left to the discretion of the charter organization, which "owns" the unit.

The incidents of youth abuse in the bsa is fortunately few and far between, but even 1 incident is too much.

If anyone wishes further information or clarification, please feel free to contact me off-list.

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>
Sender: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.orgDate: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:16:59 
To: David Chessler<chessler at usa.net>; . .<lizmaekate at hotmail.com>; <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Re: [MR] Safety

At 12:50 AM 8/22/2011, David Chessler wrote:
>all adults in
>leadership positions have to supply a police statement of "good conduct."

David -
         Sounds good on the surface, but my Cub Scout days were long 
before this was recognised as an issue, so seens to me that there a 
number of questions.
         What in the world is 'a police statement of "good conduct"'?
         Would someone who has been arrested in the past for things 
like smoking dopeor sneaking bus/subway rides -- or hitch-hiking -- 
be disqualified?
         Who pays the cops for doing the paperwork?
         Who convinces the PD's attorney that this is OK, even though 
they might get sued if someone for whom they've issued such a 
statement goes ahead and commits an offense anyway?
-- Britton

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