Criminal Background Checks

[TXMike]

Originally Posted by Jim D

I understand you're making up an exagerated senario to make a point, but let's put it this way - if these guys were ever going to be near kids, I prefer it to be on a football field on a Friday night in front of a couple of hundred/thousand sets of eyes. I'm not sure how a football official can be a realistic danger to kids who are helmeted and padded to the nth degree with all of the parents and fans watching them.

The money and time that would be spent of background checks would be better spent elsewhere protecting kids. I don't have a problem with the checks in general, I'd just put officials on the absolute bottom of the priority list.

When it comes to child sexual predators, there are many things that can bring them perverted pleasure that you or I would not even give a 2d thought to. Read some of the interviews that have been done with such folks over the years and you will be amazed at some of what can cause them to get their rocks off. They should be nowhere near a kid.

But I also think other convicted felons should not be allowed near the kids either even though they might not be a sexual threat. If you are a convicted felon you lose certain rights and privileges. Officiating should just be another one of them.