Six NFL Europe teams will no longer use high school fields for preseason training because of a new law requiring strict background checks for those who regularly enter school property.
The teams will move preseason practices to fields owned by Hillsborough County, the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida, league officials said Thursday.
The six teams bring about 750 players, coaches, scouts and other officials to the area. Players arrive Feb. 10, with full practice beginning Feb. 15.
The Jessica Lunsford Act, which took effect Sept. 1, requires fingerprinting and background checks for contractors, vendors, referees and others who regularly go onto school property. The law is named after the 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped and slain, allegedly by a registered sex offender who had briefly worked at her school as a mason's assistant.
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