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Originally Posted by bc-chris
yea - best feeling ever!
do you have to get a police back ground check to volunteer? i know at my kid's school parents have to - which is a good idea.
what ticked me off is i wanted to volunteer for something when i knew work would be a little slower (so i'd actually have the time to volunteer). i submitted my back ground form and then i get a message from the rcmp that they want me to come down to the detachment and i need to get finger printed for my back ground check. excuse me??? i'm no criminal. the worst "run in" i would have had with the police would have been a speeding ticket 15-20 years ago. no other parent i know has had to do that. so i ask why.
it turns out there is a real piece of work that lives in the okanagan with the same name as me. they know i'm not him - i have a different address, different SIN, different driver's license - they can pull up our info and know i'm not him, but becuz our names our the same i have to give up well over an hour of my time in the middle of my work day to go and get finger printed to go volunteer at one school function.... yea, sorry kids - not happening.
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I do lots of volunteering. Finger printing is standard procedure for background checks. RCMP told be one of the primary reasons is because people can change their names after being convicted of crimes. So it is just a part of the process now.