Fri Aug. 20, 2010 Leader

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Friday August 20, 2010 Serving Surrey and North Delta www.surreyleader.com

New fingerprint rules for volunteers Expanded RCMP checks to guard against sex offenders by Jeff Nagel

EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER

Fish on!

Surrey fisherman Dave Secord unloads his haul of salmon near Fort Langley on Wednesday afternoon. Fraser River sockeye are coming in at an astonishing rate that’s surpassing even the rosy forecast of fishery managers. Incoming sockeye are now on track to exceed 14.5 million in total. Read the full story and see more photos on pages 8-9.

MANY VOLUNTEERS – from Scout leaders to youth soccer coaches – may be fingerprinted due to tightened federal rules for criminal background checks. The national policy change quietly introduced in July affects organizations and employers who deal with children and others considered vulnerable, including the elderly and people with disabilities. The new RCMP screening measure is intended to ferret out pardoned sex offenders who change their names after release, seek positions of trust and go on to prey on young victims again. Volunteers and employees working with the vulnerable whose organizations require criminal record checks will now also be checked to see if their date of birth matches that of any of the 14,000 pardoned sex offenders in a national database. Those born on the same day as one of the offenders will have to be fingerprinted to ensure they aren’t in fact the sex offender operating under a new name.

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