Safe Softball Online Reporting Form

Background Information

USA Softball encourages you to provide as much information as possible. All information you are able to provide assists USA Softball in promptly and effectively responding to reported allegations. You may report anonymously by omitting your identifying information. However, remaining anonymous may limit USA Softball's ability to investigate and/or respond to the information you provide.

Anti-Retaliation Policy: USA Softball has an open-door policy and encourages Affiliated Individuals to share questions, concerns, suggestions or complaints in the way and to the people with which they are most comfortable. This means Affiliated Individuals have options for how to report any concern about a potential ethical, policy, financial or legal violation.

USA Softball has zero tolerance for retaliation against people who make good faith reports of potential ethical, policy, financial or legal violations, or who cooperate with investigations of those reports. That means no Affiliated Individual may threaten, harass, discriminate against, or take any negative employment (where applicable) or participation related action (e.g., discharge, demotion, suspension, non-assignment, negative review) on that basis.

Any such retaliation can be reported as described above in the same way as any other policy violation. It will be treated as a violation this Policy and USA Softball’s Code of Conduct, and may lead to serious consequences including termination of employment or participation for anyone involved in retaliation.

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* Do you wish to remain anonymous for this report?

Selecting “Yes” and filing anonymously means you do not wish to provide your name and contact information to anyone, including USA Softball. Selecting “No” means your report will be filed confidentially. In a confidential filing, your name and contact information will be shared with USA Softball, but USA Softball will not use your name with persons outside of USA Softball in reviewing your report to the extent permissible by law.

Whether your report is filed anonymously or confidentially, if USA Softball determines that the concern contained in your report is within a local association’s jurisdiction, your report will be sent to the local association for resolution. USA Softball will inform you if your report is forwarded to a local association, and USA Softball will provide contact information to follow up with the local association that received your report.

Yes

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* Your First Name

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* Your Last Name

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* Your Phone Number

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* Your Email Address:

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* Your Local Association: USA Softball of

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* What is your affiliation with USA Softball? (Please select all that apply.)

Athlete

Coach

Umpire

Parent

Local Association Staff Member

League Administrator

Other (please specify)

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* To help USA Softball guide the resolution of your report, please choose from one of the reporting mechanisms.

Reasonable suspicion of sexual misconduct or harassment, child abuse, or intimate relationships involving an imbalance of power.

Reasonable suspicion of emotional or physical misconduct or abuse, includes bullying, harassment, and hazing.

Concerns relating to USAS’s bylaws, policies, or procedures, conflicts of interest, governing matters, adult participant misconduct, code of conduct violations or other concerns.