Crime background check for evacuees
Hurricane Katrina evacuees arriving in Utah were given food, showers and clean clothing. . . . and a criminal background check. The checks were conducted on everyone age 18 and older, a Utah Department of Public Safety spokesman said Friday. The checks identified two people with outstanding warrants and one person on federal parole, but no one was arrested or expelled from the evacuee center at Camp Williams, said Lt. Doug McCleve. The background checks were part of a larger effort to keep the Katrina refugees safe as well as the workers and volunteers helping them, McCleve said. “We had small children. We had elderly folks. And we didn’t know where [the refugees] came from,” McCleve said. “Can you imagine if we would not have checked into this stuff and we would have put the wrong person in the wrong place?”
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