Did you break the law today ??

Submitted by sclausnitzer on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 9:03am.

According to this article ( http://www.ij.org/first_amendment/tx_computer_repair/6_26_08pr.html ) any IT Pro who "repairs" a PC in Texas without a Private Investigators license will be doing just that.

This leads to other serious questions for our Texas brethren:
- Will this apply to in-house repairs?
- Will your school pay for such licensing?
- Will you throw away every computer at it's first BSOD for the next three years?
- Will this allow PC techies to carry guns?

With penalties up to $4,000, 1 year in jail, and civil liability up to $10,000 for both the tech and the customer, it looks like Texas may soon be forced into "outsourcing" computer repairs.

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Scott A. Clausnitzer
Director of I.T. Services
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
1422 W. Peachtree St NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
P: 404-872-3593 x104
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E: sclausnitzer@johnmarshall.edu
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Submitted by tom on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 3:55pm.

"What if" you are asked to research who used an IP address to download music in Texas? Or look at your firewall logs to see who is probing your network? Or check the proxy logs to see which employee surfed the web for inappropriate material. Could the perpetrator file a criminal complaint against you and anyone who told you to investigate? Gets interesting...

Tom Franken
Univ of Denver, Col of Law