South Florida Youth Football League, announced Tuesday that it will take a more aggressive attitude against gambling games of the League, including the formation of a working group, meetings of parents and penalizing teams that do not meet the rules.
The League announced the measures in response to a report "outside the lines" 1 may who exposed rampant to the game of the League.
Council of the League also decided to suspend the Pompano Cowboys coach Osbert Small, which was shown on video shot by ESPN Exchange species with other men who appeared to be playing. In an e-mail, President of the League Michael Spivey wrote that the Commission will continue to investigate the conduct of the small. Small has already said that he only had money and that he was not placing Paris.
The "outside the lines" investigation found men holding piles of bills-- often in large denominations as they watched games. With the aid of cameras hidden OTL registered men openly to exchange money with another, even if they were a few feet of a uniformed police officer in a particular case. But the exchange money in the stands was the small stuff, OTL found - games have sometimes tens of thousands of dollars betting on them and players were often paid for manufacturing parts big.
Coaches and former players, said the game and pay players and their parents did for years.
Spivey said during the report on May 1 that the problem was out of control of the League and that law enforcement officers should be loaded to repress this illegal activity. In an interview with local sheriff and police officials, they said that the officers were busy looking for any other illegal activity and perhaps even dangerous, in the games.
The League statement Tuesday stressed the positive effects of its teams on children and the community, but then says that the "long history of success and a future prospect for the achievement, recently come into question.". He cited the rapid growth of the League in the game and says the League is "forced to make a renewed effort to address this problem with more focus and a higher level of due diligence".
Spivey has promised a more aggressive approach to deal with players, as well as to punish anyone who recruits or pay a player or a parent, an activity closely related to games of chance.
Presented Spivey of the plans for this season:
? Form a Stop Youth Gambling Task Force in conjunction with the law enforcement and community organizations to develop ways to address the game on youth sports.
? Launch an awareness campaign to help parents understand how games of chance, recruiting and accepting money may harm their children and their future sporting career.
? Comply with the current regulations which call for tolerance of the game and impose penalties against possible expulsion from the League and teams in violation which could include games cancelled, nor.
? Hire undercover police inactivity games most of the League. In many cities, the League teams play parks owned by the city, which gives cities some authority on the League, including requiring a background check on coaches and security staffing at the games.
Fort Lauderdale acting City Manager Phil said Thornburg plan of police and officials of the city to meet with representatives of all the leagues whose teams plan to Fort Lauderdale to discuss the issue in early June. He said that the city could force them to pay for the presence of additional games if necessary police officer. They will be required to sign an agreement that they will be required to comply with the rules, and if they do, Thornburg, stated that the city could take action.
"We will tell them that you may not have a license for the field." You will need to find another place to play football, "he says. "Now that the League, coaches, and others are aware, the hope is that they clean you, with our help, and it become a problem."
Spivey said he met the city parks and recreation leaders in the region of the League and inform them of plans to give closer attention to games of chance.
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