When they aren't tasering students, it seems that the UCLA campus police are not brushing up on their background check skills.After claiming that background checks on suspended Wide Receivers coach Eric Scott that turned up clean had been conducted by an outside third party, UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero was forced to backpedal Monday and admit that the faulty scan was done by campus police. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, "the background checks are done using LifeScan, a fingerprinting program tied into various law enforcement entities, but not done by an outside agency.
The background checks are done by the UCLA Police Department, which notifies the campus human resources department." An alleged "breakdown in the process" kept athletic department officials from knowing that the new coach was, shall we say, less than a role model.
Meanwhile, Scott's lawyer Milton Grimes claims to have conducted his own investigation which he says will provide sufficient evidence to allegedly exonerate his client. Hopefully he did not use the UCLA campus police to conduct it!
Previously on FanHouse: UCLA Assistant Coach Arrested for Burglary
