sportsYou — SAFE Communications Score

Platform evaluation for staff-student supervision and institutional governance.
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Full framework and scoring methodology: SAFE Communications Score

0 — No controls

1 — Token / incidental capability

2 — Partial / workaround only

3–4 — Functional with gaps

5 — Full institutional control

Maturity tiers: Limited 0–25% · Developing 26–50% · Moderate 51–75% · Advanced 76–100%

Institutional Control

0/5

Staff-Student Messaging

0/5

Cross-Role Access Controls

0/5

Records & Retrievability

1/5

Administrative Visibility

0/5

Review & Incident Workflow

0/5

Longitudinal Monitoring

0/5

District-Level Governance

0/5

This evaluation assesses institutional supervision and governance capability in school settings. Platforms designed for general consumer use may serve other communication needs effectively while lacking the oversight controls this framework measures.

Institutional Control 0/5

sportsYou has no institutional tenant. Teams are coach- or admin-created but indistinguishable, so the school cannot tell which are official or govern the environment.

Staff-Student Messaging 0/5

Team-level messaging controls are defeated by design. Any coach can send an athlete a connection request and then message them privately, even when 1:1 messaging is disabled at the team level.

Cross-Role Access Controls 0/5

The connection backdoor ignores roles entirely. Any parent can connect to and message any athlete, coach, or other parent, with no identity verification tied to enrollment or employment. Roles impose no real restriction on who can reach a student.

Records & Retrievability 1/5

A records request mechanism exists but is not reliable. Per sportsYou’s own documentation, chats deleted by any user cannot be recovered, even by administrators — and connection-based messages may never be captured.

Administrative Visibility 0/5

No institutional visibility exists. There is no tenant concept; an administrator must be manually added to every team to see anything, and connection-based private messages are not visible at all.

Review & Incident Workflow 0/5

No native flagging, escalation path, or documented outcome workflow exists. Incident response relies entirely on screenshots and manual reconstruction after the fact.

Longitudinal Monitoring 0/5

No cross-time, cross-team, or pattern-based review capability. Supervision does not persist across seasons or surface behavioral patterns over time.

District-Level Governance 0/5

No district role, policy override capability, or cross-school administrative view. Each sportsYou team operates in complete isolation from district oversight.