The Professional Investigators of California Association, PICA, has concluded their membership polling with specific regard to SB202, the Mandatory Continuing Education bill authored by Senator Tom Harman. After presenting their membership with information and the opportunity to read SB202 and vote their individual support or opposition, collectively the membership and association has responded - OPPOSED to SB202, the Mandatory Continuing Education bill by an overwhelming margin of 76% to 24%. This has led to their official OPPOSED position to SB202. PICA will be making their announcement in the near future.

PICA is the second largest and fastest growing investigative trade association in California. Created to promote education, non-censorship and membership rights, PICA trusted their membership to look at the bill and vote to support or to oppose.

Industry-wide opponents to SB202 have argued that opposition to SB202 is close to 80% of the state's licensees and the PICA results confirm the Opposition's estimations.

If 76% are opposed after reading the bill and engaging in open discussion, why would the Sponsors still be so hell-bent on;

1. spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to create more bureaucracy?
2. legislating for MORE government regulation?
3. legislating for INCREASED licensing and renewal fees?
4. promoting remedial and self-certifying training that addresses no educational baselines?
5. allowing expensive, unnecessary and full of unknowns program?
6. offering irresponsible leadership in our poorest state economy in decades?
7. doing nothing to correct any articulated problem(s)?
8. ignoring the stellar discipline record of California Private Investigators, (99.99% perfect over past 7 years)?
9. denying their own obvious and ongoing conflict of interest issues?
10. allowing issue to divide their membership and industry?
11. misrepresenting critical facts to lawmakers?

Why?

The jig is up. SB202 is a Special Interest bill designed to gain power and money - not protect consumers. PICA members see it for whatever it isn't and the association is now officially "OPPOSED" to SB202.