**IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Follow-up to the new FIRST Youth Protection and Adult

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I'm still a little unclear on this whole thing. I know it protects FIRST in a legal situation but does this really prevent mailicious individuals from participating as mentors? If you don't have anything to hide, sure you'll get screened, no problem. If you do have something to hide, you'll just dodge the screening, and that will be that, and no one will know. How does FIRST know that everybody who is helping is getting screened? How can they know of everyone who is a mentor, since it is based on honest reporting? They can't. Which brings me to my final question: If a malicious individual (or an individual with a malicious past) does not report his/her participation and FIRST will never know this person even exists, then what good is the screening?

Forgive me if I don't have much insight into this but this question has been bugging me.