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from: [email protected]

Why does not the AOC pick a day like July 31 for all license to expo then it is clear for the time periods for CEU to kick in plus it improves the processing of renewals

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from: Palmer Investigative <[email protected]>

Good evening -

I agree with Ratcliff and others about the CE requirements. In person would be hard for me as well, as I do not have anything available "in person" to me in Prescott. I would have to take a full day to drive to Phoenix or further, to take the class.

Just my thoughts.

Sheila Cahill

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from: Ron Ezell <[email protected]>

I am a past president of APSA and board member of the National Association of Professional Process Servers. I stand firmly with APSA and fully agree with the association’s views.

In the early 1980’s, I was (1) of (2) two individuals that worked with Judge Gerber of the Maricopa Superior Court along with (2) two of the Arizona Court Supreme Justices, Justice Feldman and Justice Zlaket that kicked off the process servers program to keep process servers under the courts and not the legislature.

Ronald R. Ezell
P.O. Box 87052
Tucson, AZ 85754
[email protected]
520.631.3877 - Cell

As a Private Process Server I object to the proposed language, "the maximum hours of continuing education credits earned in a self-study format may not exceed 50 percent of the total number of continuing education hours required during the certification period.", as listed in the proposed language below.

n. Process servers requesting CE credit for self study shall submit documentation of completion on an approved form.Self-Study. A process server may receive continuing education credit for self-study activities, including taking correspondence courses, reviewing procedure manuals, watching video presentations, listening to audio materials, attending online seminars, and other methods of independent learning. The maximum hours of continuing education credits earned in a self-study format may not exceed 50 percent of the total number of continuing education hours required during the certification period. The remaining hours must be obtained through live training, meaning training or education provided by one or more faculty or facilitators to an individual or a group using real-time interaction.

The limits on self-study is prejudice in nature and does not provide equal opportunity of all that are certified and seeking renewal. Other professions with continuing education requirements, such and Attorney and Realtors, can meet their continuing education requirements entirely online and in a self-study format. I believe that Private Process Servers should be afforded that same ability to obtain meet all their continuing education hour requirements through self-study.

In response to the objections about online training, the 50% maximum hours of CE credits located in section (L)(4)(n) only applies to self-study. The other 50% can be entirely online as long as there is the ability to interact with the instructors in real-time. 100% of CE can be obtained online, just not 100% through self-study.