{"id":68,"date":"2007-08-29T03:23:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/but-they-already-did-a-background-check\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T22:25:07","slug":"but-they-already-did-a-background-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/but-they-already-did-a-background-check\/","title":{"rendered":"But they already did a background check!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/\">Akron Beacon Journal<\/a>, officials at the Scioto Youth Camp in Perry County, Ohio and Fairfield Christian Church in Lancaster, Ohio are pointing fingers at each other over a volunteer camp counselor accused of inappropriately touching three young boys at a church camp.<\/p>\n<p>The camp officials say that they didn&#8217;t do a background check on Timothy Stephen Keil because &#8220;his church, Fairfield Christian Church, told them Keil had already passed a background check there to become a Sunday school volunteer.&#8221; The people at the camp didn&#8217;t think a second background check was needed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile church officials said they ran a background check, but couldn&#8217;t locate it in their files. When they asked the company that runs their background checks to review their records, it turned out that no one ran a background check on Keil.<\/p>\n<p>Keil is now accused of molesting three young boys at the camp. He was previously convicted in Pennsylvania on the charge of corruption of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a real simple lesson here. Do your own background checks. Nobody else&#8217;s background check is your background check. Only your background check is your background check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Akron Beacon Journal, officials at the Scioto Youth Camp in Perry County, Ohio and Fairfield Christian Church in Lancaster, Ohio are pointing fingers at each other over a volunteer camp counselor accused of inappropriately touching three young boys at a church camp. The camp officials say that they didn&#8217;t do a background check on Timothy Stephen Keil because &#8220;his church, Fairfield Christian Church, told them Keil had already passed a background check there to become a Sunday school volunteer.&#8221; The people at the camp didn&#8217;t think a second background check was needed. Meanwhile church officials said they ran a background check, but couldn&#8217;t locate it in their files. When they asked the company that runs their background checks to review their records, it turned out that no one ran a background check on Keil. Keil is now accused of molesting three young boys at the camp. He was previously convicted in Pennsylvania on the charge of corruption of a minor. There&#8217;s a real simple lesson here. Do your own background checks. Nobody else&#8217;s background check is your background check. Only your background check is your background check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-checks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}