MLB Instituting Background Checks For Clubhouse Employees
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MLB Beginning To Conduct Background
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MLB for the first time is "conducting background checks of hundreds of team employees whose duties take them into clubhouses," according to A.J. Perez in a sports section cover story for USA TODAY. The effort covers more than 300 people and includes "strength coaches, trainers, interpreters and equipment managers," but does not include GMs, field managers, coaches or players. MLB Senior VP & General Counsel Daniel Halem said that the league "hopes to complete the checks by opening day." Employees subject to the new examinations were "asked to sign waivers authorizing MLB's new Department of Investigations or an outside contractor to obtain the required information." The screening "begins with a consumer background check, meaning financial and criminal histories are being probed." Halem said that if "any irregularities are found, investigators would expand to a more thorough inquiry in which friends and associates would be interviewed." Halem: "If something turns up, we are going to do what needs to be done." The process was suggested by former U.S. Sen George Mitchell as a result of his investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in MLB (USA TODAY, 3/20).
FIRST PIECE: Halem added that the checks are "just one tool MLB has started using" in an effort to curtail the use of PEDs in baseball. In a separate piece, USA TODAY's Perez reports the club employees under investigation also are subject to random drug testing, and a "confidential hotline has been established that workers can use to report to MLB officials any potential violations of MLB rules and policies." MLB Senior Dir of Security Operations Dan Mullin is heading the eight-person department, and former FBI agent George Hanna is "helping oversee the background checks" (USA TODAY, 3/20).
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