INDIANAPOLIS -- Two recent incidents involving school employees accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with 14-year-old girls has raised questions about the screening process for Indiana teachers.

Lawrence Swim Team coach Christopher Wheat was arrested Monday on a felony charge of sexual misconduct with a minor, while Carmel High School band assistant David Black is accused of having sex with a freshman girl.

Until this year, although schools were required to have a policy regarding criminal background checks, they were not required to perform them, 6News' Renee Jameson reported.

That law has now been changed to mandate districts conduct background checks for all school employees.

"They changed the law to say schools, we want you to do an expanded criminal background check on those people who are going to have direct ongoing contact with children as part of their positions," said Julie Slavens, staff attorney for the Indiana School Board Association.

But companies who do some of the background checks point out that while Indiana counties report convictions to the state police, most do not report arrests.

"Say someone was arrested for something, and they were not convicted of it, chances are it could not be reported in that county," said Brenda McGinley of International Investigators.

The current policy regarding criminal background checks is also not retroactive, which means teachers hired prior to the new legislation may or may not have been checked.

Neither Wheat nor Black had prior criminal histories.

"Sometimes you just got to do what I call the gut factor," Slavens said. "If it feels wrong, in your gut, or if there's something creepy about the person and you just don't feel right about it, don't hire them."