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October 5, 2020 in News // Automatic expungement trend gives clean slate to license applicants facing criminal background checks
September 28, 2020 in News // Board hid investigators’ actual caseload with fake data for Auditor
August 19, 2021 in Administration // CSG state “playbooks” aim to reduce effect of employment-related mandates such as licensing on workers with criminal record
August 19, 2021 in Entry to Practice // Remote learning meets requirement of “full-time resident graduate study”
August 19, 2021 in Administration // Pennsylvania surveys new immigrants’ experience of licensing as part of $422,000 federal grant
August 19, 2021 in Consumer Protection // Chiropractors may evaluate patients for neurological conditions
August 19, 2021 in Discipline // License decisions can be appealed by third parties, in racetrack case

Drugmakers lose bid for every state disciplinary and prescription record to help opioid defense

A California appellate court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had ordered production of a vast amount of licensed prescribers’ confidential investigatory and [...]
Blanket calls for deregulation wrongly treat professions and occupations alike, report finds

As proposals to deregulate occupations have proliferated in recent years, they are often rationalized by the claim that 25% of workers hold a certificate or license in the [...]
Board investigator did not violate licensee’s Fifth Amendment rights by conveying his sexual misconduct admissions to police

Credit: Joffrey Essley The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled December 15 that a licensee who admitted improper sexual conduct to a board investigator who then passed that [...]
All 50 states have eased some licensing restrictions during pandemic to fill workforce needs

Credit: nursingschoolsnearme.com/ A four-year project to reverse the growth of occupational licensing requirements, backed with significant federal funding, issued a 2020 [...]
Remote exam proctoring violates civil rights, California ACLU maintains

Remote proctoring of licensing examinations, for which some fields during the COVID-19 pandemic require facial recognition software to verify the examinee’s identity, [...]
FBI: Impostors posing as regulators threaten medical licensees nationwide with license suspension

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned licensed medical providers October 14 that they could be targets of a nationwide fraud scheme by people posing as state or federal [...]

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