Youth sports: criminal background checks.

Existing law authorizes specified entities to receive state summary criminal history information from the Department of Justice. Existing law also requires mandated reporters, as defined, to report child abuse and neglect to local law enforcement. This bill would require the department to provide state summary criminal history information to the director of a community youth athletics program, or his or her designee, for the purposes of screening volunteers or employees who are left alone with minors and would prohibit a person from having access to minors as an employee or volunteer if the person has been convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to, a crime of child abuse, sexual abuse, or domestic violence. The bill would provide that completing the background check does not limit the liability of a mandated reporter.