Handling Misconduct Allegations in Youth Sports

Children’s sports organizations have made significant progress towards ensuring a safe, constructive medium for participants and staff, while emphasizing key values such as performance, discipline and motivation. Most National Governing Bodies have adopted safe sport policies aimed at protecting children and young adults from misconduct, as well as setting the framework for responding to incidents.


However, children’s sports environments are highly dynamic and sensitive, and often create a great psychological impact for children. Our investigative experience shows that this environment remains susceptible to generating 

serious and frequent misconduct towards child participants. 


As we all struggle for better, safer environments for our children, it is extremely important that efforts are made to understand, observe and react to any form of misconduct that may take place in sports organizations or similar circumstances.  


About the Author 

Daniel Weiss, CEO and founding partner of McCann Investigations, LLC, started his 25-year career in the security industry early, working at a maximum-security prison as a graduate student at Northeastern University. Weiss held managerial positions at Wells Fargo and Chubb before becoming the founder of multiple security companies. As a security expert he has been interviewed by leading news organizations. His knowledge covers private investigation, computer forensics, loss prevention, electronic security system design, and surveillance, and his background supports the unique balance between business and former law enforcement―a unique hallmark of McCann Investigations. 


He has previously published 'Handling Bad', where he delves into the flourishing digital realm of cyber based criminal activity in order to provide examples of threats that may lurk closer to home than you think.