CHALLENGE Randle Evett, Safety Specialist for Greenville County Schools in Greenville County, South Carolina, was experiencing a common logistical challenge with the district’s volunteer program: as the district volunteer coordinator, it was his responsibility to oversee the processing for all volunteer applications and conduct all necessary criminal background checks to clear parents and community members to work with students. That would be a time-consuming task in virtually any district, but it was particularly difficult in this case. Greenville County Schools is the largest district in South Carolina and the 44th-largest in the U.S., with more than 76,000 students and 30,600 currently active volunteers. “The sheer numbers were one thing,” Evett says, “but even more importantly,

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