| Background checks concern the integrity as far as | | | | concerned for the younger generation of the |
| career employment for many people including | | | | city’s population. Jim Moodispaugh had stated |
| coaches. Lately in Peters, PA the coaches have been | | | | that some of the citizens were very energetic when |
| required to provide a criminal background check for a | | | | it came to the concern of violence in the youth |
| history of child abuse and clearance of criminal history. | | | | sports program. However, he came to the general |
| This concern for background checks has just recently | | | | conclusion that the public was just thinking that this |
| been applied to the township. A board member | | | | portion of the program was just a part in making the |
| committee called the Peters Township Council | | | | youth sports program better. |
| consisting of different citizens of the town had | | | | Â The township of Peters, PA, prides itself in |
| proposed the idea of background checks to be | | | | setting an example to the youth with a |
| made. They approved the proposal in mid-January. | | | | sportsmanship ideology which help to teach |
| Jim Moodispaugh, the parks facilities manager, had | | | | sportsmanship to be number one and above in |
| stated that the program should concern the safety | | | | competition. The background Checks will probably be |
| of the town’s youth. The town itself has a | | | | submitted for enforcement in the middle of 2006. |
| population of about 17,000 people. This is a smaller | | | | They will be enforced by the department of |
| population in which volunteers are depended on to | | | | recreation re-ensuring the records’ privacy. |
| run the department of recreation. They were mostly | | | | |