8 years of the U.S. Center for SafeSport: Successes, shortcomings, and reforms
Author: Leah M. Bernhard Article Link With the United States Center for SafeSport (“USCSS”) completing 8 years in March 2025, this article examines the recent changes to the SafeSport Code and discusses some deficiencies in the process and provides some recommendations for a more balanced adjudicatory process that would better serve all parties while maintaining the […]
US Center for SafeSport fires CEO Ju’Riese Colón, the latest sign of crisis for the Olympic watchdog
By EDDIE PELLS Article Link DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Center for SafeSport fired CEO Ju’Riese Colón on Tuesday in the latest and most visceral sign of a crisis that began after revelations the center had hired an investigator who would later be charged with rape. The center told The Associated Press about Colón’s removal in an […]
U.S. Center For SafeSport Shows The Dangers Of Delegating Power To Private Entities
By: George M. Perry Article Link The U.S. Center for SafeSport was empowered to protect youth athletes. It sets and enforce its own rules without government review. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is raising the pressure on the U.S. Center for SafeSport, the nonprofit organization that Congress empowered in 2018 to protect youth athletes from sexual […]
Judge issues scathing SafeSport ruling, saying it ‘perpetuated a fraud’ in case
Nancy Armour USA TODAY Article Link A Florida judge said the U.S. Center for SafeSport “perpetuated a fraud” and intentionally withheld evidence in a criminal case brought at the prompting of one of the center’s investigators. In a ruling Tuesday related to the expunction of misdemeanor charges against a female water polo player, Seminole County […]
Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSport’s hiring of investigator charged with sex crimes
Article Link By EDDIE PELLS DENVER (AP) — The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator’s job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past, while also asking if the center knew he had been accused of newer crimes when working there […]