Catherine Hansen-Stamp and Charles R. Gregg

The Fall 2019 issue of CampLine included a summary of the year’s Hotline calls. The American Camp Association (ACA) categorized the year’s calls into various areas. They found a...

Staff are the front line in advancing the mission of the camp, protecting the camp, and, most importantly, protecting the campers from harm.

Camps, wanting to be inclusive but protective of their program and maintaining its quality for all campers, have inquired about their obligation, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), to allow service dogs at camp.

Every several years we reexamine the legal duty of care owed by a camp to its families. We do this for a variety of reasons. New laws are passed, and new court decisions are issued...

We last wrote on the subject of camps and marijuana use in the fall of 2011, following a variety of camp concerns and inquiries to ACA's Hotline.

This article will survey certain legal issues that have arisen in camp operations over the past year, as presented to the ACA Camp Crisis Hotline, other inquiries to staff...

I. Introduction The American Camp Association (ACA) has asked us to address issues associated with camp staff off duty use of camp premises, facilities and equipment. Several ACA...

I. Introduction Recording camp memories, connecting with parents during camp, and staying connected with campers after the camp season are desirable features of the camp experience...

©2006 Catherine Hansen-Stamp and Charles R. Gregg* A teen who is deaf and her parents e-mail an application, seeking admission into a summer adventure camp. There are only a few...