[jmaellis]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Would somebody please name ONE umpire who committed an offense where that umpire would have been revealed as a bad actor by a background check? ONE will do? Anyone?.... Didn't think so.

Now, school teachers are another matter!

Here's a few:

http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/46874.html

http://www.keyt.com/home/ticker/7873872.html

http://www.courttv.com/trials/hinton...rdict_ctv.html

http://enterprise.southofboston.com/...ews/news05.txt

and I only ran a very simple keyword search.

The basketball forum had a lengthy discussion about this very topic about a month ago,

Criminal Record Checks

and if I recall correctly, "Referee Magazine" recently also had an article.