PERI's Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Claire Reiss will head the Volunteer Liability Research Project to be conducted over a 12-month period. The research project will include:
- Assessing end user input on the need for information on volunteer liability, legislation, and practices and how it can best be presented by conducting an electronic survey of Citizen Corps organizers and volunteers.
- Developing a tool kit of methodologies which would cover a range of information such as an introduction to liability law and likely liability exposures; in-depth review of liability law and liability scenarios; and examples and attributes of legislative approaches to address these exposures in various states and at the federal level.
- Identifying a menu of model components for use by states in improving existing legislative remedies.
- Crafting a tool on liability for volunteers that cross interstate boundaries.
- Working with the DHS' Medical Reserve Corps and other Department of Health and Human Services initiatives concerning medical volunteer licensure and liabilities.
- Keeping Citizen Corps updated on major issues impacting broader volunteer liabilities.
- Creating a PowerPoint presentation on the final products and findings which can be delivered in various venues around the country.
Clickhereto view a training program entitled "Citizen Corps Liability Issues" originally presented by Claire Reiss to the Texas Citizen Corps Conference in June 2005 and featured in PERI's E-Training Center.
