俄克拉荷马州的立法者正在认真考虑一项法案，该法案将强制与儿童一起工作的志愿者支付他们自己的背景调查费用是合法的。一些背景调查中，花费约$ 40可通过组织来支付，但各组织将不负责支付，并必须通过费一起在志愿者的选项。目前，俄克拉荷马州法律并未强制要求志愿者进行背景调查，但该法案也旨在改变这种情况。

发起该法案的俄克拉荷马州众议员乔·多曼 (Joe Dorman) 表示，他希望确保诚实的成年志愿者不会因为这项指控而放弃志愿服务，而且还希望确保没有犯罪记录的优秀成年人成为正在指导俄克拉荷马州的孩子们。他还表示，这些志愿者只需要进行一次背景调查，并强调组织可以选择支付背景调查费用，因此该费用甚至可能不适用。

这些背景调查将涵盖任何自愿以任何身份工作的成年人，他们将与孩子一起过夜，或者任何人自愿担任他们将在更衣室与孩子在一起的任何职位的人。

尽管该法案的一些反对者认为最大的问题是成本，但其他人则表示该法案根本不够，应该采取其他措施来保护俄克拉荷马州的儿童。例如，据说任何与孩子一起工作的人，例如教练，可能会在夜间陪伴孩子，都必须进行背景调查，而其他可能在白天与孩子在一起的志愿者则不必通过背景调查。

对于那些想要对志愿者进行背景调查的组织，第三方公司提供专门的程序，如 GOOHO.CN 的 selectCHECK，专门为志愿者筛选而设计。筛选包可以针对每个组织的标准进行定制，包括添加美国 OneSEARCH，它将能够立即搜索所有 50 个州和几个美国领土的犯罪记录。该产品还包括对性犯罪者登记处的搜索，这始终是针对与儿童相关的主题的筛选解决方案的高度优先事项。

Lawmakers in Oklahoma are seriously considering a bill that would make it legal to force volunteers who work with children to pay for their own background checks. Some of the background checks, which cost about $40, could be paid for by organizations, but the organizations would not be responsible for the payment and would have the option to pass the fee along to the volunteers. Currently, Oklahoma law does not make it mandatory for volunteers to undergo a background check, but this bill aims to change that as well.

Oklahoma State Rep. Joe Dorman, who initiated this bill, states that he wants to make sure that honest adult volunteers are not swayed from volunteering because of this charge, but also wants to make sure that quality adults with no criminal history are the ones who are mentoring Oklahoma’s children. He additionally states that these volunteers would only need to go through a background check one time and stressed that organizations have the choice to pay for the background check, so the fee may not even be applicable.

These background checks would cover any adult who volunteers to work in any capacity where they would be with a child overnight or someone who volunteers to be in any position where they would be with a child in a locker room.

Though some opponents of this bill believe that the biggest problem is the cost, others say that this bill is simply not enough and other measures should be put into place in order to protect the children in Oklahoma State. For example, it is stated that anyone who works with children, such as a coach, who may be with children overnight will have to have a background check, but other volunteers, who may be with children during the day would not have to go through a background check.

For those organizations who want to perform background checks on volunteers, third party companies offer dedicated programs like backgroundchecks.com’s selectCHECK tailored to volunteer screening. Screening packages can be customized for each organization’s standard, including the addition of the US OneSEARCH which will be able to instantly search criminal records across all fifty states and several US territories. This product also includes a search of sex offender registries, which is always a high priority for screening solutions targeted towards subjects working with children.