Background Checks

[Cub42]

http://philadelphia.comcastsportsnet...p.asp?ID=61752

Here we go!

[SAump]

Is there any benefit to adding on to the list?

1) Dirty nukes, 2) Hazardous waste, 3) Toxic drinking water, 4) Subway chemical leak, 5) Robbing banks w/ explosive jackets, 6) Die Hard One, 7) Die Hard Two, ...

"(Later the idiosyncratic Salvador Dalí explained it as: "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.")"

I remember a time when police would actually wait for a crime to occur. The only thing background checks provide is another source of income for those affilliated with law enforcement groups. {Edited to add final thoughts on the matter: If BC were free, the whole idea wouldn't fly. But at $80 a pop, who's the crook?}

Is it really safe for police to plant surrealistic images in such a very public manner?

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by SAump

The only thing background checks provide is another source of income for those affilliated with law enforcement groups.

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.

[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.

[DG]

Originally Posted by SAump

I remember a time when police would actually wait for a crime to occur. The only thing background checks provide is another source of income for those affilliated with law enforcement groups.

Law enforcement officers are also open to background checks before employment and even then some slip through that should never be. And then there are school teachers, social workers, coaches.....

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by DG

Law enforcement officers are also open to background checks before employment and even then some slip through that should never be. And then there are school teachers, social workers, coaches.....

I get fingerprinted and undergo a Washington State Patrol and NCIC background check every two years.

I'm a bit confused about the fingerprinting part. It's as if they're expecting them to change.

In addition to that backgournd check for teaching, I undergo background checks every two years for my officiating activities separately.

Since the years don't align, I end up undergoing a background check annually.

And they still haven't caught me.

[BretMan]

"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."

The unfortunate thing is that, unless this teacher had ever been caught/arrested for a similar crime, a standard background check would have revealed nothing.

That is, it would have done absolutely nothing to "protect our youth from this type of predator".

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by BretMan

"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."

The unfortunate thing is that, unless this teacher had ever been caught/arrested for a similar crime, a standard background check would have revealed nothing.

That is, it would have done absolutely nothing to "protect our youth from this type of predator".

However, for reasons known only to them, many predators with records continue to try to work with youth and do get caught by background checks.

As I posted above, we have had a couple turn up on background checks here in Spokane and a few on the west side of the state.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by msavakinas

out of pure curiousity... what do you teach?

This year?

2 classes of Computer Applications and three classes of Marketing Management.


I have 14 endorsements (Washington's term for teaching certificate).

[JJ]

Originally Posted by GarthB

2 classes of Computer Applications...

Can you tell my why my vcr keeps blinking "12:00" ? Wait a minute..that's not a computer thing, is it?

JJ