Many youth sports coaches now need ID badges
The world has changed. It used to be the dad on the neighborhood corner gathered the kids together, formed a baseball team and everyone knew everybody.
Now, you sign your kid up, get a call a month or two later, and meet some stranger who's your coach for the season.
And while 99.9 percent of them are good people -- volunteer dads working for free -- society has gotten so litigious and there are legitimate fears out there. So youth sports coaches, and other volunteers, even those at youth centers, for example, get their backgrounds checked and wear ID badges.
Read the points of view of administrators, coaches and others in this story, published Dec. 24.
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