Just because it’s your policy doesn’t mean you’re doing it
UCLA is embarrassed. They missed checking a coach with a criminal past:
One day after news broke that wide receivers coach Eric Scott was arrested for burglary and had a lengthy list of prior arrests and convictions, Guerrero said the school would reserve judgment until it gathered all the facts, but he also made it clear that it knew little about Scott’s past.
UCLA isn’t alone. In Alabama, consternation reigns at the Dothan City Schools. Another employee with background check issues:
[Keaton Lamar] Battle, 34, was arrested last Friday in Donalsonville and charged with two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes. Until May, Battle had worked as a teaching aide at PASS Academy in Dothan. Neither of the alleged incidents happened at PASS, but one happened while Battle was employed there. The Alabama Child Protection Act of 1999 requires anyone working in a job with unsupervised access to children to be fingerprinted and submit to a background check. The city school system also asks potential hires whether they’ve ever been arrested or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor.
The two incidents are different. But they have the same lesson for you.
The UCLA incident is the “Case of the Background Check […]