background check

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Most of you probably think that I'm BillyMac, a 55 year old environmental chemical analyst from Connecticut, who joined the Forum in August of 2005, and who's favorite Bible passage is John 3:16.

That's the nice thing about the internet. We can be whomever we want to be. I'm real life, I'm just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual, Transylvania.

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

So your favourite movie then must be that one with John Travolta the lawyer where he cleans out his life savings, and his friends' live savings, going after commercial pollutants.

Oh. I thought it would be Rocky Horror Picture Show.

(No, Bob, I'm not going to start singing songs from the movie...)

So, to keep this on-topic, I thought I had heard some associations or states have started included background checks on officials, correct? How are those set up? Who gets to see those results, and how are they used?