[DaBruteForceGuy]

Sounds like a good idea. I know that mentors are a crucial part of FIRST and my team for one never would of gotten anywhere in our rookie year without ours. I don;t believe that it is the team coaches buissness what was in the backround checks, but i do believe that FIRST should have them to qualify their mentors. It seems like a thing that everyone has seen coming. Probably in the earlier years, FIRST was welcoming anybody to help because they rly could use all the help that they could get. But now that the orginization has grown so much they are able to do such backround checks and stil have the amount of help needed to run it. I think that it works fine, privacy wise, it sounds alot like a certification. Say, a carpenter getting his certification could be a lot like a mentor getting his *certification* with FIRST. It was bound to happen poeple, it was just a matter of time when FIRST was capable to taking these totaly necessary precautions.