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Arapahoe County proposes updates to volunteer policy emphasizing program-based background checks and electronic records
Summary
County staff proposed a rewrite of the volunteer policy to tailor background checks to program risk, ease administration for large group volunteers, move recordkeeping to electronic formats, and produce a separate volunteer management guide; staff asked the board to place the revision on the consent agenda.
Sarah Obey of the commissioner's office presented a rewrite of Arapahoe County's volunteer policy and asked the board to approve placing the revision on a consent agenda.
Obey said the county uses volunteers across many programs — from the county fair and the "Day Out of Your Neighbor" program to public-health harm-reduction kit assembly, victim advocacy, and the HUD point-in-time homelessness count — and reported participation figures. "At the end of 2025, we had 515 volunteers in our database who contributed over 2,500 hours of service in 2025," she said.
The draft policy keeps criminal background screening but recommends aligning…
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