Background Checks

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Utter nonsense.

Correctly managed, background checks can and have proved very useful in the amateur sports arena.

Locally, they have uncovered at least three officials with convictions of deviant sexual behavior, and on the west side of the state a couple of youth coaches with child molesting backgrounds have been exposed.

That said, that isn't what the MLB umpires are opposed to.

In Northern Virginia earlier this month a high school Spanish teacher who also coached the girls and boys track and field teams was arrested for attempting to arrange sex with minor over the internet. At a bond hearing today his bail was denied.

Our nations youth need to be protected against these types of predators.