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The Center publishes the names of sanctioned adults who the Center believes pose a potential risk to U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes and affiliated organizations in its online Centralized Disciplinary Database (CDD). According to Center staff, as of June 30, 2020, approximately 1,300 individuals were listed in the CDD.
That statement paralleled what a SafeSport employee wrote in an email to a claimant whose case was handled by Krasley and who has asked for it to be reopened. “Because we have many checks built into our investigative process, we do not anticipate that we will need to re-open many, if any, cases,” the employee wrote in that email, which was ...
SafeSport seeks to address the problem of sexual abuse of minors and Olympic athletes in sport. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Its primary focus, for which it has exclusive jurisdiction , is to review allegations of sexual misconduct , and to impose sanctions up to the lifetime ban of a person from all Olympic sports. [ 11 ]
SafeSport's public disciplinary database indicated that Griswold was temporarily suspended on August 23, 2022, for allegations of misconduct in violation of the SafeSport Code, prohibiting him from practicing or competing at any event or facility under the U.S.O.P.C. or a national sports governing body while he was being investigated by SafeSport.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport was duly created in 2017. [155] [156] [157] It has exclusive jurisdiction over allegations of sexual misconduct and can impose sanctions up to lifetime banning of a person from involvement in all Olympic sports. [158] It also collates a central database of disciplinary cases across all sporting disciplines. [159]
On May 14, 2021, the United States Center for SafeSport suspended French coach Jean-Luc Cairon from all contact with athletes and USA Gymnastics member clubs & members while it conducts an investigation of allegations against him, and he was entered into the SafeSport Centralized Disciplinary Database for allegations of misconduct.
In 2022, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) alleged that U.S. Ski & Snowboard had been interfering with a United States Center for SafeSport investigation into charges by three former American athletes and a former U.S. Ski & Snowboard employee against head coach Peter Foley, who coached the U.S. Snowboard team from 1994 to 2022.
Rory Dames, who was mentioned almost 400 times in Sally Yates' report on abuse in women's soccer, is no longer listed in SafeSport's database.