Den leaders, troop volunteers, and campout chaperones spend overnights and weekends with your scouts. Screen every adult with an FCRA-compliant national criminal and all-50-state sex-offender check, plus identity verification, for $5.
FCRA-compliant No per-seat fees Results in minutes
Around the campfire
Scouting volunteers spend sustained, often lightly supervised time with kids — weekly dens, weekend campouts, and overnights. These are the adults worth verifying.
Weekly meetings and hands-on activities.
Overnights and weekend trips with limited supervision.
Hikes, service projects, and travel.
One-on-one mentoring toward advancement.
Pinewood derbies, fundraisers, ceremonies.
Under-18 volunteers — screened with guardian consent.
VolunteerBadge · Scouting
Every $5 volunteer check
Criminal records
650M+ county, state & federal court records
Sex-offender registries
All 50 states + national registry
Identity verification
Government photo ID + biometric selfie
Address history
SSN-traced — free on every check
Watchlists
FBI Most Wanted + OFAC / global
Email a link or post a QR code for registered adults and volunteers. They apply from their phone in minutes.
Government ID + selfie confirms the real person, then the $5 national check runs. Under-18 youth leaders get guardian consent automatically.
A green “verified” badge (or a flagged review) lands on your roster — with FCRA adverse-action built in.
Flip on volunteer-pays and each leader pays for their own check at sign-up — screening stays free for the pack or troop, and you still get a verified result for everyone.
Scouting runs on adult volunteers who spend real, sustained time with children — weekly den meetings, weekend campouts, and overnight trips, often with limited supervision. Scouting organizations were early leaders in youth protection, and screening every registered leader and volunteer is central to that. At $5 a check, a small pack or a large troop can screen its whole adult roster before the season.
VolunteerBadge runs a full national criminal background check spanning 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — with a free SSN-traced address-history check on every applicant, no per-seat fees, and no contract.
And because verifying the human matters as much as searching the name, VolunteerBadge confirms each leader with a government photo ID and a biometric selfie matched to the ID.
Build your unit’s screening policy — free
Generate a branded, FCRA-aware background-check policy in minutes.
It is $5 per leader or volunteer through VolunteerBadge — a full national criminal check with a free address-history check and FCRA adverse-action workflow, and no per-seat or monthly fees on pay-as-you-go.
Yes — all 50 states plus the national registry, alongside 650M+ court records, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists, on every $5 check.
Yes. VolunteerBadge screens applicants as young as 14 and collects a parent/guardian authorization for anyone under 18 before the check runs.
Yes — turn on volunteer-pays so each leader covers their own check, keeping screening free for the unit.
Most units re-screen registered adults every year or two; VolunteerBadge’s automated reminders keep it on schedule.
Set up your unit in a few minutes and screen your first leader for $5 — no contract, no per-seat fees, cancel anytime.
Screen a volunteer for $5