Background Checks

[Adam]

Originally Posted by wanja

Here's a link to a newspaper article regarding an investigation of PIAA officials with criminal backgrounds.




A sex offender registry will not include serious, non-sexual offenses such as homicide and endangering the welfare of a minor unrelated to sex.

My question then is, "So what?"

Personally, I don't think they're relevant to whether a person should be allowed to officiate. What problem is this supposed to solve? How many convicted killers are officiating high school sports? What crime would we expect them to commit during a basketball game?

As for endangerment, the same question pertains. What exactly is this designed to prevent?

Look, I'd be ok with the privacy issues and the expense involved if it could be shown that it would prevent some crimes; but I have yet to see a single instance where a crime was committed by an official, as an official, that would have been prevented by a background check and subsequent screening.