The Hall Of Fame - Local Area (HOFLA) is an automatic public process that’s driven entirely by the "at large" members of the local community. Thus, the community is the governing body of this HOF.  Our 100% online technology utilizes a fair process of determining annual sports HOF nominees by the local community. From this community, a smaller committee of local residents (those who wish to participate) will select the annual inductees from the top nominees. By design, this is an automated “politically free”* experience.  For a High School, this local HOF falls under the oversight of the current Principal and Athletic Director.  They may recommend candidates, but they do not participate in selecting  the actual inductees. Where possible, the annual HOF nomination/selection process will be advertised in the local community. The final HOF inductees will be posted electronically on this site.  You may submit your online nomination throughout the calendar year, but no later that December 31st.

HOFLA Regulations:

·Authorization – The entire local community (including alumni) are invited to participate by nomination/registration, thereby authorizing and accepting the eventual "final decision" based on actual results.

·Oversight – This service is fully automated.  However, the local community itself will be regarded as the governing body and responsible for continual development of this service (through the inclusion of online feedback).  For Schools, the Principal & Athletic Director oversee and provide local guidance for the schools initiative, but do not participate in the selecting of inductees. Additional regulations by the school may apply.

·HOFLA Technology - Local communities are categorized into areas.  Thus, your community will be represented electronically on our sites as the "Local Area".  The local area will use a dedicated form on LSH (Local Sports History) to submit individual HOF nominee selections. Upon submission, these forms are directly included in the tabulation of results for the calendar year.  The collection of data ends on December 31st of each year.  The selection committee will make individual selections during the entire month of January, ending January 31st.  The final results (along with the names of inductees) will be posted online in February.

·Selection Process – Online forms are submitted by the general community for all individual HOF nominees. At the end of the year, the top results go to the "Selection Committee" for induction selection.  An individual nominee needs to accumulate at least 3 nominations during the calendar year to continue in HOFLA process.  Those with less than 3 accumulated nominations may be discarded from the process, as of December 31st.  Nominations may occur throughout the calendar year and will end on December 31st.  Top selections (those with the most accumulated nominations) will be induction candidates for the selection committee to choose from.  Up to 10 candidates (i.e., the "top 10 selections") will be presented to the selection committee.

·Selection Committee – An un-numbered but “smaller” group of local community participants will continue the HOF selection process for the nominees that received the highest submissions (depending on the number of local submissions, up to 10 nominees may be considered as finalists {i.e., the "top 10" are finalists}).  You may ask to be on this selection committee when you nominate someone (the selection committee is formed from this pool).  Each member of this committee will confidentially "select one" of the top finalists.  Therefore, the selection committee determines who will be inducted each year.  LSH will make one inductee selection.  All members of the selection committee will remain anonymous.  This committee will be new each year.  The entire participating community "and, not the selection committee" is regarded as the governing body of this service.

·Inductees – Of the top finalists, "up to" the top 5 people are selected as your initial HOF inductees (depending on the number of finalists).  Subsequent years will produce "up to" 3 new inductees annually.  You may nominate your candidate each year until inducted, thereby eliminating any potential controversy.  Once inducted, the inductees (and/or their nominator) may contribute information towards their online representation on this site.

·Authenticity/Validity – This service is automated.  A reliable resource will verify the selection results each year.  Final results will be validated and posted on this site.

·Acceptance – Individual inductees (once inducted) may provide input for their profiles that will be posted online for public and historical reference. Otherwise, LSH will primarily use the information provided upon nomination.  There are usually no acceptance speeches or ceremonies scheduled (unless otherwise notified).  Profiles will be individual online dedicated pages on our LSH sites, and may link to your school site (upon the schools request).

·Recourse – This is an automated online process, and the local community is invited to participate. Therefore, the community itself becomes the governing body.  Until further notice, no provision for public recourse of HOF results will be provided. The final HOF results will be posted on this site.  Those who may be disappointed or in some way dissatisfied with this years results are simply encouraged to participate again in the next selection process.  By doing so, your candidate will eventually be inducted.

·Campaigning – This is not a political process and no independent campaigning prior to selection will be permitted. Campaigning may result in the disqualification of the HOF nominee, and the submitter.  Background information about the top 10 potential inductees may be posted as "public educational information" (by you or your school), prior to the final selection (see "Note" below).  This will provide more details for the selection committee to make an informed decision.

·Advertising – Where possible public services and typical methods of advertising this HOF online process (to get the word out) may be utilized (i.e., Press Releases and PSA's).  This will inform and encourage the local community to participate by submitting their online nomination.  This is a fully automated online process.

*Politically Free - the expression "politically free" simply means that our automated process is removing most (if not all) politically charged situations over the HOF program.  Normally, the treating and maintaining of a typical local HOF can be emotionally draining for all parties involved.  This automated annual process removes potential emotional and confrontational aspects of the HOF, and replaces it with complete "fairness".  Based on the facts, the local "at large" community (as a whole) is responsible for the annual results of the local HOF.  Thus, the collective community itself will be regarded as the governing body.

Note: If you are a school, you should fully utilize your Local Sports History (LSH) membership to educate the local community about the historical nature of local sports representatives (potential nominees). This will help the community to determine who they may choose to nominate for the local HOF each year.  However, the "at large" community may nominate any qualified person (click here for nominee qualification).

This local HOF initiative is a service of Local Computerized Services, LLC (LCS) through their Local Sports History (LSH) platform. All aspects of the local HOF are generated through and housed on LCS technologies. Where required, results will be posted on the school’s site. Questions about this HOF technology service should be directed to LCS: info@localcomputerizedservices.net.  Your honest feedback helps us to improve this service.  Thank you!