[game_edu] Criminal record?

[Peter Border]

Hi folks:

Here's a question for you:

I have a potential student who has a problem: he has been charged with 3rd degree sexual assault. Currently it is a felony but if he completes his probation without issues it will be dropped to a misdemeanor due to the mother and the daughter not pressing charges against him. His question is whether this will make him unemployable in the game industry. Frankly, I don't think it would help but I don't see how a misdemeanor would make him totally toxic. Obviously, if he has no chance of ever being employed due to his record he won't enter the program.

Does anyone out there whether there is a common policy on criminal records, or do different companies just wing it?
  
Peter Border
Game and Application Design Chairman
Globe University/Minnesota School of Business
1401 West 76th St
Richfield, MN 55423
pborder at msbcollege.edu