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Rick - Supplemental PICA Raymond Who to CC and Auto Email Links Email Your Comments & Letters to these Key Legislators NOW. Hearing Date - June 30, 2009 URGENT SB 202 CORRECTION: Matt Garrison PI Informer: June 19, 2009 June 16, 2008 Dear Fellow Investigators, Good morning. It appears that SB202 will be heard before the Assembly BP&E Committee on the morning of Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Your letters in Opposition to SB202 are required to be delivered to the committee's analyst before 5:00 pm on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009. Please prepare and dispatch your letters accordingly. A sample letter is found below that you can cut and paste to your letterhead. Please forward and post this email EVERYWHERE! Letters should be mailed via first-class U.S. mail and can also be emailed to the analyst IF they comport to the following committee requirements:
1. On your company letterhead
The analyst's identification and contact information are:
Joanna Gin
It is important that your letters reach Ms. Gin by 5:00 pm on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 to be considered in her analysis. Please take 5 minutes to complete this necessary effort. We need each other. The Opposition to SB202 is growing and we thank everyone for taking the time to address this worthless and elitist self-serving piece of legislation. There are a number of websites where information is available concerning SB202 and their links are provided below. The State Surge website allows you to post your position on SB202 and we understand that lawmakers look at this site. As of this morning there are 67 posts with at least 60 of them articulating why they are opposed to SB202. The bill's proponents and sponsors have offered no substantive rebuttal to any of the issues presented - because they obviously have none. Please, take a look at the below-listed websites before completing and sending your letters in opposition to SB202, the Mandatory Continuing Education farce. Also, if you haven't yet, post your position on the State Surge.
State Surge: http://www.statesurge.com/bills/490984-sb202-california
SAMPLE LETTER IN OPPOSITION - (Cut and Paste to your letterhead and alter and format as necessary. Be sure to note if you are a member of CALI or PICA and correct accordingly in the first paragraph): June 16, 2009
Joanna Gin, Associate Consultant
RE: SB202 - Opposed Dear Ms. Gin and BP&E Committee Chair & Members: I am a licensed California private investigator and a member in good standing of CALI and PICA. I am opposed to SB202. I am not opposed to education or continuing education and obtain my training and education on a voluntary basis that has proved to serve my clients, myself and my profession well. SB202 is not supported by our industry and serves no purpose to the state's private investigators nor will it provide any added benefit or protection to California consumers. There are too many loopholes in this poorly written bill and it does absolutely nothing to correct any articulated problems allegedly suffered by consumers. Unlicensed investigators are harming consumers, but where is there any evidence that California licensed private investigator do? Without such evidence, SB202 merely creates legislation for the sake of added bureaucracy and governmental regulation, both of which are unnecessary in this instance and in this economy. Private Investigators are licensed and regulated by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) and as BSIS reports, we have an exemplary discipline record that is 99.90% discipline free during the past seven (7) years. How do the Author and Sponsors respond to this published fact? They don't, yet they should. Moreover, BSIS already has exclusive authority under B&P sections 7527.1 and 7542.1 to require and test in two of the three mandatory subjects required in SB202. SB202 has no testing component and lacks efficiency and value. Why not expand the authority under these B&P code sections rather than create massive bureaucracy under SB202 if the means really justify the end? SB202 simply creates a cottage industry and a captive audience for the Sponsors of SB202. The disastrous condition of our state's economy is suffocating small business. Uncertainty breeds fear and there is no immediate end in sight. This is not the time to burden California with SB202 and the unintended consequences of implementing a poorly conceived legislation void in creating a solution to any articulated problem. Sincerely,
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