Criminals Continue to Try to Elude Background Checks and Coach Youth Sports

Criminals continue to try to coach youth sports, putting children and recreation providers at risk.

Of the 10,436 profiles submitted by municipalities last year to the National Recreation and Park Association's TLC2 volunteer-screening program, nearly one in 10 people were found to have criminal records. And nearly 40 percent of those people were discovered to have committed an offense that, under the program's standards, precluded them from coaching children. Those "disqualifying offenses" included serious drug and alcohol convictions (114), violent offenses (106), various other felonies (71), recent misdemeanors (49) and even sex crimes (11).

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