当 Ocean State Transit（一家为该州东格林威治公立学区处理校车的私营罗德岛巴士公司）雇用的一名巴士监控员因儿童色情罪被捕时，该公司的名字被拖入公众视线。一位家长，一位州代表，甚至发誓要制定立法，要求全国所有校车司机和校车监督员接受全国范围的背景调查。

对于在事件发生前只对其员工进行州背景调查的 Ocean State Transit 来说，逮捕公交车监控员是一场公关噩梦。该公司遵循州法律条文，此时只要求私营运输公司进行州背景调查。然而，向公司员工提出儿童色情指控的震惊仍然让 Ocean State Transit 的高层感到震惊。该公司通过承诺在未来修改其背景调查政策来回应逮捕。

根据东格林威治出版社的当地报道，Ocean State Transit 迅速改变了政策。桑福德于 10 月 31 日被捕，到 11 月 14 日，这家巴士公司已对其每位员工进行了全面的全国背景调查。

判决？一切都清楚了，Ocean State Transit 的 Tony Murgo 告诉东格林威治出版社。此外，Ocean State Transit 未来不再依赖一次性的全州刑事调查，而是制定了一项政策，要求其每位员工从现在起每年接受州和全国范围的背景调查。

如果 Ocean State Transit 使用的全国性检查与通过 第三方背调公司提供的检查类似，那么它包括对所有 50 个州的犯罪记录和罪犯登记处的检查。东格林威治出版社还表示，海洋州交通局在全国范围内追溯调查了斯科特桑福德的记录。事实证明，桑福德之前没有犯罪性行为的记录，也没有任何犯罪活动的记录。

尽管如此，尽管 Ocean State Transit 无法预测会对 Sanford 提出的指控，但该公司仍在做出良好的业务举措，不仅决定未来对新员工进行全国背景调查，而且还要求现有员工进行间歇性检查，以确定他们的记录是否保持清洁。

When a bus monitor employed by Ocean State Transit—a private Rhode Island bus company that handles school busing for the state’s East Greenwich public school district—was arrested on child pornography charges, the company’s name was dragged into the public limelight. One parent, a State Representative, even vowed to pursue legislation that would require all school bus drivers and bus monitors throughout the country to undergo nationwide background checks.

For Ocean State Transit, which had only run state background checks of its employees prior to the incident, the arrest of the bus monitor was a public relations nightmare. The company had followed the letter of state law, which at this time only requires private transportation companies to run state background checks. However, the shock of having a child pornography charge thrown at a company employee still hit close to home for the higher-ups at Ocean State Transit. The company responded to the arrest by promising to revamp its background check policies in the future.

According to a local report from the East Greenwich Press, Ocean State Transit was quick in changing its policy. Sanford’s arrest took place on October 31, and by November 14, the bus company had completed full nationwide background checks on every one of its employees.

The verdict? All clear, Ocean State Transit’s Tony Murgo told the East Greenwich Press. In addition, instead of relying on a one-time statewide criminal check in the future, Ocean State Transit is instituting a policy that will require each of its employees to undergo state and nationwide background checks on a yearly basis from here on out.

If the nationwide check that Ocean State Transit is using is anything like the one available through backgroundchecks.com, then it includes a check of both criminal records and offender registries from all 50 states. The East Greenwich Press also indicated that Ocean State Transit had retroactively looked into Scott Sanford’s record at a national level. As it turns out, Sanford had no prior record of criminal sexual conduct or, for that matter, of any criminal activity at all.

Still, while Ocean State Transit could not have predicted the charges that would surface against Sanford, the company is still making a good business move, not only in deciding to require nationwide background checks for new employees in the future, but also in demanding current employees to undergo intermittent checks that will determine whether or not their records have remained clean.