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07/21 11:40 CDT SafeSport Center to begin publicizing names of people who go on
its banned list
SafeSport Center to begin publicizing names of people who go on its banned list
By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
The U.S. Center for SafeSport began making public announcements of people
placed on its disciplinary database Tuesday, a move designed to increase
transparency and bring more attention to what the center believes is one of its
top tools in the fight against sex abuse.
The center, in charge of combating abuse in Olympic sports, has long published
what it calls its Centralized Disciplinary Database. But without publicizing
who lands on the list, people had to access the database and know who they were
looking for to learn about banned and restricted people in their orbit.
Now, the center will share weekly updates about people added to the list; the
updates will include cases taken to arbitration that have reached a decision.
"Knowledge is power and maintaining safe sport environments improves when
information is as accessible as possible," said the center's CEO, Benita
Fitzgerald Mosley. "By sharing weekly news updates of individuals who have been
added to the Centralized Disciplinary Database, we hope to improve safeguarding
through increased public awareness."
Among those who receive the center's correspondence are national governing
bodies, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and media, making the news of
someone's listing on the database more likely to be seen.
Publicizing offenders is a core principle in anti-doping. Public announcements
of people who get caught doping is considered a deterrent to drug use and the
practice is part of the world drug-fighting rulebook.
In the SafeSport Center's news release announcing the change, it said people
listed on the database are currently restricted or banned from participating in
Olympic or Paralympic sports --- a penalty that encompasses elite level down to
the grassroots. The center said the database is a snapshot in time --- i.e.,
someone on the list could come off of it --- and that the center's process is
neither a criminal nor civil legal proceeding.
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