Seven of the largest US online sports betting and gaming operators are joining forces to establish the Responsible Online Gaming Association to actively promote a new industry-wide responsible gaming best practices charter.
Dr. Jennifer Shatley will serve as ROGA’s full-time Executive Director and she will guide the organization through a series of initiatives regarding research, consumer and industry responsible gaming education and awareness, the promotion of responsible gaming best practices, and both an independent data clearinghouse and an independent certification program. Dr.
The members have collectively pledged more than $20 million in support of ROGA’s mission in the coalition’s first year of operations., this will be the first time that major gambling companies are committing to share information about customers excluded because of problem gambling.
With legal sports betting growing across the United States, the gambling industry has made a concerted effort to police itself to ward off harsher regulatory frameworks or oversight from the federal government.to offer access to therapy and treatment for problem gaming through its platform in every state it operates in.