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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eddie Pells

Troubled SafeSport Center looks for a new leader and tries to chart a different course

SafeSport Center-Next Steps - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley to the person now in charge of steadying the U.S. Center for SafeSport laid bare his views of festering problems at an agency he portrayed as having lost its way.

Among the concerns the Iowa Republican outlined in that March 31 letter to the center’s board chair and now its interim CEO, April Holmes, included “repeated failure to adequately supervise SafeSport’s officers,” and a “concern that SafeSport is not prioritizing serious sexual and child abuse cases over other cases.”

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