Once you have completed all your paperwork, you will receive an email from Checkr, our
online background check company. Our goal is to uphold the integrity of security and safety
within Legacy Church’s ministries to the highest level. To do so, we require all employees
and all volunteers 18 years of age or older who serve within Legacy Church to have an
updated approved background check (a current background check is one that is no more
than two years old). Our desire is to create an environment where parents feel confident in
leaving their children with any volunteers and employees of the church.
In order to protect the safety and wellbeing of the children entrusted to Legacy Church’s
care, and in order to comply with Volunteers for Children Act (HR 2488) the church shall
perform a background check on all recognized volunteers working with underage minors. In
addition, the church shall perform a background check on all paid employees, whether fulltime,
part-time, temporary or seasonal. This background check is strictly limited to criminal
activity, and does not in any way check financial records such as personal credit history.
The report is made up of: a multi-state criminal search, the national sex offender search, a
SSN validation and death index search, name and address history (going back 30 years),
and an alias search. Background checks will be run every two years on all current
employees and all current volunteers.
If the church deems it necessary it shall as a matter of policy, reserve the right to disqualify
and prohibit from serving any person who has been accused of, arrested for, convicted of,
been on probation for, or received deferred adjudication for any disqualifying offense.
Background checks shall be conducted on all employees and volunteers on or before the
date they are hired or allowed to serve. The right to disqualify applies to any actual or
alleged criminal conduct regardless of whether (a) any charges were subsequently
dropped, (b) any charges resulted in a non-conviction such as probation, or (c) any
conviction was expunged from the applicant’s record.
*** Record Retention Policy: Legacy Church does not store any background checks. All
background checks will be kept in a secure encrypted file through Checkr with access
being limited to the Executive Staff and the Ministry Director.