I am fascinated by the historic roots of policies and practices be they public or nonprofit. In a Maui News story (yes, Maui, Hawaii) there's a law on the books that:
requires nonprofit organization leaders and volunteers to submit to extensive background checks and fingerprinting and to list all employment from age 18 and any traffic tickets of more than $25 for one-day events. In recent days this process has been "beefed-up" to include the background checks, fingerprinting, lists of fundraiser auction items and volunteers and their Social Security numbers two months in advance of the event.... Additionally, wholesale distributors can only donate alcoholic products for fundraisers held at hotels and restaurants with liquor licenses.
Yes, of course this is stringent and interestingly, unlike the policies on other islands. But the root of this rule, that's even more interesting to me. Specifically: The reason they started doing background checks, as they came out of Prohibition, was trying to prevent the mob from getting involved. So, do you think circumstances have changed since Prohibition or......
By the way, there is of course protesting (rightly so in my opinion) from the nonprofit community noting that the remaining Islands don't have such a policy (or at least have made more reasonable policies) and a review of the State rules says that there is no state requirement which Maui officials had alluded to.