U.S. Center For SafeSport Shows The Dangers Of Delegating Power To Private Entities

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 abuse in sport. Yet he is limited in what he can do, because the center was authorized by Congress to set and enforce its own rules without any government review.

Grassley had questioned the center’s CEO, Ju’Riese Colón, in February about media reports that SafeSport hired as an investigator a former Pennsylvania police officer who was under investigation — and has since been charged — for a series of felonies. In another letter to Colón this week, Grassley bluntly stated that Colón was “not entirely responsive to my inquiries, and the information [she] did provide caused additional

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