Jim Porter has posted an article in the Members Only section dealing with and avoiding confrontations. Jim cites that
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According to the National Association for Sports Officials' (NASO) web site, only thirteen states have enacted legislation to protect sports officials from assaults. Twenty-three states have laws held up at some stage of legislation. That leaves fourteen states who have no such legislation even introduced. Since that is the best route that we as officials have to protect ourselves, each one of us has a duty to contact our state representatives to get the ball rolling.
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Although I have written to elected officials to support legislation carrying penalties for physical abuse I am not sure that this actually "prevents" the abuse. It appears that it may deal appropriately with the abuse after the fact. I don't believe there have been any studies comparing states that have enacted laws with those that have not.
Does anyone have any "facts" that can be used? Jim Simms/NYC