New Orleans tour guides must now pass a criminal background check in order to be a licensed tour guide. The tour guides are saying that this requirement is unconstitutional as violates the First Amendment. True that it is in a way free speech but also true that these tour guides spend most of their time with groups of tourists and with a criminal past could be a threat to them. Others would argue that there is no unsupervised time spent with tourists as they are in big groups which would make criminal activity very difficult. The debate continues… To read more about tour guides and background screening read recent press release found at: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-10-11-Tour-Guides-and-Background-Screening.html