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Do you expect to give a blood test before and after every game? Do you expect the FBI to check everyone background, talk to all your friends and associates and everyone that you worked with in your life time. There is only so much that anyone is going to do to get officials. We already have a shortage of official. You are telling me that everyone that officiates in your area goes through that kind of trouble to officiate one game? It is no different than trying to get a job. You give an employer basic information that can be verified, than you leave it at that. I personally am not a felon, I personally have never committed any sexual crime against a minor or anyone for that matter, but to get any information outside of that is a bit much. You are not going to know someone is an alcoholic unless someone tells you, and even then, most people are not going to know anyway. If you are a drug user or an alcoholic, the very closes people may not know. There is only so far anyone is going to go. If this was the first incident of this person, how would you know unless he had been caught or found out.
I live in Illinois, and I have worked in Iowa too. I really have never seen anything other than a criminal background check done in both states. It is not like the we are talking about the NCAA, states do not have that kind of money, nor would you want to discourage every single person that shows an interest to get paid as little as we do. It is not like being an officials brings us hundreds of thousands of dollars. You might be lucky if you get $40, and you expect everyone to have every little detail in someones background to examined and dissected? Sounds a bit much to me.
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Just keepin it real!!!
What in the world are you talking about? I never mentioned police reports, blood tests, oaths of allegiance, or anything else. Just to be qualified to officiate. Here in California (I'm in Southern California) we are required to join our local high school officials' association, attend a clinic, meetings, take and pass with at least 80%, a qualifying exam. We are not permitted to officiate a high school game if we're not qualified by our local unit. Schools send their schedules to a liaison person who forwards them to local unit assignors who then assign games.
Bob
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