Are there any criminal charges pending against you

You may not know.

Borders on "presumed guilty".

My understanding is the background check provider LL uses returns all "hits" BY NAME AND STATE ONLY - so that the Personnel Officer has to wade through MANY "hits" for "popular" names.

It was that way a couple of years ago - it may have changed since.

We had to wrestle with this as a Board of Directors -- and the Personnel Officer needed help to sort all this out because it was OVERWHELMING - one guy (a Board Member) had SEVERAL HUNDRED hits on his name, and some of them were from one of the 10 or so states he's lived in or gone to school in since he's been 18 ! None of them were him, of course, but we had the legal and fiduciary obligation to chase all of this down.

Not good - more people than should have were privy to the information just so we could share the workload. OK, sure, they were Board Members, but still, you should minimize the number of people who have access to this information.

So you're in the "presumed guilty" camp?

And what if the individual doesn't know?

Maybe someone should call Dan Kirby in Williamsport !!!   ;o)

LL Response to e:Mail asking why SSN is "mandatory" on 2011 Volunteer App:

+LexisNexis is now requiring a SS# to do Background check. Jim

James Ferguson

Director of Security

Assistant Director of Risk Management

Little League International

Baseball and Softball

539 U.S. Route 15 Highway

P.O.Box 3485

Williamsport,PA 17701

jferguson@littleleague.org

570-326-1921 Ext.212 Fax570-326-9280+

My reply back:

So, if a league only does the "required" check of the NSOR, which does not require a SSN, can the league not require the SSN on the Volunteer Application?

No answer from LL yet !!!

Dont know about all the Depts. of uncle sam? but before going to a employee ID# that is in use now, they use to only show the last 4# of ones SSN. Before that your hole SSN was used.

If your local leagues want to start stamping 666 on your foreheads...RUN!

Just saying...imo use someother means.

Identity theft

Many citizens and privacy advocates are concerned about the disclosure and processing of Social Security numbers. Furthermore, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated an algorithm which uses publicly available personal information to reconstruct a given SSN.[20]

The SSN is frequently used by those involved in identity theft, since it is interconnected with so many other forms of identification, and because people asking for it treat it as an authenticator. The SSN is generally required by financial institutions to set up bank accounts, credit cards, and obtain loans, partially because it is assumed that no one except the person to whom it was issued will know it.

Exacerbating the problem of using the social security number as an identifier is the fact that the social security card contains no biometric identifiers of any sort, making it essentially impossible to tell whether a person using a certain SSN is truly the person to whom it was issued without relying on some other means of documentation (which may itself have been falsely procured through use of the fraudulent SSN). Congress has proposed federal laws that will restrict the use of SSNs for identification and ban their use for a number of commercial purposes, e.g. rental applications.[21]

The IRS offers alternatives to SSNs in some places where providing untrusted parties with identification numbers is essential. Tax preparers can acquire a Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN) to include on their client's tax returns (as part of signature requirements). Day care services have tax benefits, and even a sole proprietor should give parents an EIN (employer identification number) to use on their tax return.

The Social Security Administration has suggested that, if asked to provide his or her Social Security number, a citizen should ask which law requires its use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8ftRFb2Ac