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My "problem" with it is simply that there is not a problem that needs solving to beign with.
I don't care if some guy who was convicted of looking at child pron ever gets to officiate again - screw 'em, I have no sympathy for them.
What I *do* care about is that someone has come along and told me that if I want to officiate, I must allow them to dig into my personal life beyond what they can simply ask me about, so that they can assuage their hysteria about the non-existent problem of officials molesting children.
If you don't want people with previous criminal histories of whatever sort officiating, then make that the terms of employment. Since the issue is continuing punishment for them, as opposed to any concern that they are actually a tangible threat, then that will deal with that problem in the vast majority of cases, without the need to go and do background checks on officials, 99% of which have nothing to check, and even the 1% (if it is that high) aren't actually any kind of real threat anyway, since they don't have unsupervised access to children.
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