LL background checks

[Rich Ives]

 

Laws don't create trust. They just punish violations.

 

 

So, you're helping my position more than your own.  Let's re-phrase:

 

Background checks don't provide any actual protection to real children.  They just save Little League, Inc., coffers from lawsuits.

 

 

And for me, having the laws allows me to trust more that my data will be handled correctly, more than if there were no sanctions in place.

 

But apparently this is what you want me to say:  I don't trust Little League officials with my personal data, because they don't even know baseball all that well, going by what I see at the leagues around here, never mind how to handle and protect personal data.  They probably don't have the brains to keep the data under lock and key, mostly because they lack the skills to manipulate a lock properly.  It's an actual miracle they can make it to and from the ballpark from their homes on a regular basis.

 

Is that more what you want me to say?  Whether it's true or not, you continue to push on the trust issue.  So, no.  No, I don't trust them, and I've said the why more than once.  I'll go you one better:

 

Substitute "Pony baseball" or "USSSA" or "Nations" or any other sanctioning body.  This isn't someone's actual pay-the-bills job, and it's not their data, so they're going to half-ass it at some point.  If you want your data treated that way, Godspeed.  Unless and until they need it for something like a 1099 because they've paid me enough to activate that rule/law for IRS purposes, they have no reason to have my number.  I don't know how to say that any more clearly.  If you trust people that much more, again, Godspeed to you.

 

 

Wow. Glad to know I'm a dishonest untrustworthy idiot. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Are there drugs to combat paranoia?

[HokieUmp]

 

Wow. Glad to know I'm a dishonest untrustworthy idiot. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Are there drugs to combat paranoia?

 

 

Line 1:  Even if it's completely out of context, I'm just gonna savor that one.  Possibly forever.

 

Line 2:  In my line of work, I will just say it's not paranoia when it's true.  So, you do what you want to do, and I'll go my own route.

[Rich Ives]

 

 

Wow. Glad to know I'm a dishonest untrustworthy idiot. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Are there drugs to combat paranoia?

 

 

Line 1:  Even if it's completely out of context, I'm just gonna savor that one.  Possibly forever.

 

Line 2:  In my line of work, I will just say it's not paranoia when it's true.  So, you do what you want to do, and I'll go my own route.

 

 

 

I know that joke but it is paranoia if you think it is always true.

[HokieUmp]

 

 

 

Wow. Glad to know I'm a dishonest untrustworthy idiot. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Are there drugs to combat paranoia?

 

 

Line 1:  Even if it's completely out of context, I'm just gonna savor that one.  Possibly forever.

 

Line 2:  In my line of work, I will just say it's not paranoia when it's true.  So, you do what you want to do, and I'll go my own route.

 

 

 

I know that joke but it is paranoia if you think it is always true.

 

 

Again, you do you.  This stuff will get stored online, guaranteed.  And I know, from what I do, that [redacted] is getting hacked/attacked All.  The.  Time.  It is a fact, and if you choose not to believe it, you are delusional.

 

So, when there's no legal requirement for a local LL to ask for and store the combination of my name, address, phone, SSN, and driver's license number - all of which is on that [redacted] form - that is The Perfect Storm for identity theft.

 

And again, neither you nor anyone else has really answered the basic question:  when a state already has a sex offender database that can be searched - FOR FREE - without providing a SSN, why on Earth do they need to ask for one?

 

I mean, answered it with something other than:  "they don't."  Which is, after all, the correct answer.