Is a FBI Criminal Background Check Required For Volunteers?
Today due to increasing crime and sex abuse rates in highly responsible government positions and financial positions, many are required to go through various personal background checks, including the FBI criminal background check. Presently, even volunteers, especially those working with children or elderly people are forced to go through thorough check ups. Let us take a look at some of them. Of course, many people object to such “digging into” their past experiences. Their argument is that they have become volunteers and work for free, because they want to help others. Nevertheless, more and more charity organizations, being afraid of losing social trust, make their volunteers go through various personal check ups and even through the FBI criminal background check. I want to mention that presently no charity organization has direct access to the federal FBI database for checking up its volunteers. Any access to the FBI files can be made only through the official FBI web site and such
