Weeding out predatory teachers isn’t always so simple

In case you haven’t noticed, we live in the United States, not some Middle Eastern country. The fact that the teacher background check includes only arrests — not police “interrogations, school district investigations and previous complaints” — is based on the concept that people are innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent.

If I were to call up the police and report that I think a Review-Journal reporter molested a student, the police may very well decide to interrogate her over it, especially if she had ever been in the school I named. Would she want her name added to this database based on my phone call?