Church Employment Screening

All churches face significant liability for the acts of anyone associated with the church.

It has been well established through the court system that Churches have a responsibility to conduct an employment screening background check on all church ministers, officers, employees, volunteers, drivers and anyone else that acts on behalf of or for the church in any way.

The risk is simply too high not to exercise the due diligence of a quality employment screening program.

The negative consequences of a single act by an individual can bring great trauma to the victims of sexual misconduct or assault but also serious harm to the greater church from which it may never fully recover.

The financial impact alone can be huge but many other factors should also be considered such as the stress of litigation and the negative impact of bad publicity on the church's leaders and the congregation as well.

Remember, the church's best defense and sometimes its only defense is having done a proper employment screening background check.

Staying within the Law on employee background checks

There are numerous regulations about what information you are allowed to access, under what circumstances you are allowed to access that information, and which information can legally be used in a hiring decision. 

  • As with any other employer:

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  • You may not: Access the wrong information,

  • You must: Get the appropriate permission from the person concerned,

  • You must: Properly notify a person of a negative decision based on information discovered.

  • You must: Protect the confidentiality of the information.

  • You may not: Make a decision on data that was excluded by law for the type of position for which the person was being considered.
     

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The church also must comply with data security and record retention requirements and needs to fully comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as well as any other state laws which have jurisdiction not only over credit information, but other types of personal data as well.  

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