I agree with you officials should have to get a background check just like coach's, and Yes, the board members all get coach's cards so they would then have to have a background check. Things to think about:

Contact with kids
17 dollar cost for officials to get the background check
the number of officials we have to choose from

Maybe we as coaches and parents should treat the officials with a little more respect. They are out there just like you doing a job. Coaches helping their wrestlers, parents supporting their children.

I hate to say it, since I have coached more than I have officiated but in all the wrestling tournaments I have been too in the last 30 years, I have seen more bad coaching and parents acting a fool than bad officiating.
I plan to stop by the JOCO tournament tomorrow I guess I got a question to ask people I see.
Do we want to have our officials get a background check?

I say yes, but I am still just 1 vote to the 100's of Dstrict 1 USA-Kansas memebers.

Tom Peterman