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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
May 21, 2021 in Civil Rights // Realtors expand ethical prohibition on racist & discriminatory speech
May 21, 2021 in Entry to Practice // Panel requires review of three-time cap on exam attempts in case of nurse candidate who tested in “suboptimal” conditions
May 21, 2021 in Administration // California virtual proctoring flags one third of remote bar exams
May 21, 2021 in Discipline // Following default judgment, court rejects maximum fines without separate analysis
May 21, 2021 in Discipline // Delay in prosecuting disciplinary charges will not result in their dismissal

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 [...]
State cannot impose good moral character requirement on cosmetologists but not barbers, court rules

Page DeWolfe, https://flic.kr/p/nMCU8B A Pennsylvania court declared the state’s good moral character requirement for cosmetology licensees unconstitutional on equal [...]
Board may use licensee’s sealed criminal record to impose discipline

Karen Neoh, https://flic.kr/p/oKsCcL The state medical board may use the sealed criminal record of a physician charged with misconduct to impose discipline, the Massachusetts [...]

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