A.G. has long known about BCI database shortcomings

[Schmajo]

7/11/06
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/07/11/20060711-B1-00.html

“State officials have known for years that the criminal background checks they conduct sometimes miss crimes that should disqualify individuals from certain jobs and volunteer positions.

Consultants hired by the Ohio attorney general’s office to conduct quality-assurance inspections have alerted state officials to numerous instances in which offenses failed to show up in the state database that’s used to process background checks, records show. Usually, it’s because the offenders never were fingerprinted.
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Under existing policy, no offense can be entered into the database without the fingerprints of the person who committed it, unless they’re already on file with the state. Fingerprinting typically takes place after an arrest, but many people who commit crimes that should be in the database aren’t arrested, but rather summoned to court. As a result, so-called ‘reportable offenses’ such as assault, patient neglect and endangering children have sometimes fallen through the cracks.
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For years, however, officials in the attorney general’s office apparently didn’t do much — or at least not enough — to bring the problem to the attention of judges in Ohio’s municipal courts, which tend to handle the types of crimes that can result in a court summons as opposed to an arrest.
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