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Given the negative PR against shelters that threatened to do background checks on all the other people they let into the shelters in the lead up to the recent h
by TallGuyShort 9y ago
Given the negative PR against shelters that threatened to do background checks on all the other people they let into the shelters in the lead up to the recent hurricanes, that's gotta be just a CYA move, no? Isn't there a check that you're not a felon already in the FCC licensing process?
- jcrawfordor 9y agoNo, felons are absolutely not prohibited from having amateur radio licenses or even being ARRL members. ARC does not conduct background checks on shelter clients and to do so would almost certainly be found to be against the principle of neutrality, however, shelter clients are asked if they are required to register their location with the government (often because they are registered sex criminals) and there are procedures in place if so (although this is not an easy problem and has caused difficulty in the past).
- VLM 9y agoThey stopped asking the felon question for only a couple years, was basically an oversight, now its recent news that its coming back again. http://www.arrl.org/news/revised-fcc-form-605-will-ask-applicants-the-felony-question http://www.arrl.org/news/revised-fcc-form-605-will-ask-appli... The most famous felony-ham-license battle I can think of is the Kevin Mitnick incident from the turn of the century... the FCC lost and ended up renewing his license after all. I vaguely remember some 80s guys getting felony convictions for interfering with police radios and then losing their ham radio license. Of course the future does not necessarily rely on past events and policies.