Roy Smith wrote:
A bill has wound its way through the NY State assembly and senate
which would require fingerprinting and criminal background checks for
all student pilots.

Is this anything new? This has been the case for millions and millions of
people in the USA for several years already. And the irony is that each and
every one of those millions of people went through a criminal background
check and fingerprinting already and each and every one came out clean. For
those not required to do the fingerprinting and background check for every
major rating you would not know. It just didn't make any headlines.

jue

PS: In case you don't know what I'm talking about:
http://www.aopa.org/tsa_rule/index.html#clarifications which also applies to
LPRs.