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David Allburn (Chapter 10)

To best understand his chapter David Allburn, Executive Director of Safe Harbor Resources (SHR), suggests readers recall the old fable, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” because conventional screening for sexual predators, as well as typical insurance coverage for that peril, is like a mirage: it seems to offer what it doesn’t. Based on deflection, not detection, on conflict-of-interest, not crime-and-punishment, on supplemental post-hire inquiry, not pre-employment background checking, and on risk-reduction, not “catching perverts,” his new screening methods and the new legal framework facilitating them go far toward solving the liability dilemma in worker screening while avoiding naming or shaming ...

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