Florida Administrative Code › 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › 5N - Division of Licensing › Chapter 5N-1 - PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE, SECURITY AND REPOSSESSION ACTIVITIES, SCHOOLS › Section 5N-1.140 - Security Officer, Recovery Agent and Private Investigative Intern School Curriculum; Examinations; Retention of Records

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Security Officer Schools and Training
				Facilities.
(a) A security officer school or
				training facility shall teach, at a minimum, and the students shall attend
				classes in the subject areas as set forth in the Security Officer Training
				Curriculum Guide P-01878 (Rev. 11/2018), which is hereby incorporated by
				reference and can be obtained at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-10454
,
				or from the Division of Licensing at the addresses listed in Rule
				5N-1.100, F.A.C. of this
				chapter. The security officer curriculum shall consist of 40 hours of
				instruction.
(b) Throughout or upon
				completion of the required curriculum, schools and training facilities shall
				administer testing of not less than 2 hours in duration. The examination(s)
				shall be approved by the division as meeting the content criteria of the
				Security Officer Training Curriculum Guide. Such examination(s) shall consist
				of 170 questions in total on the subjects contained in the Security Officer
				Training Curriculum Guide.
(c) No
				more than 50 percent of the questions in each subject area may be true or false
				questions, and 128 questions answered correctly is a passing score.
(d) Within 3 business days from class
				completion, a school or training facility shall issue a Certificate of Security
				Officer Training to each student who successfully completes the training
				standards established herein, using Form FDACS-16103, effective 01/23, hereby
				incorporated by reference. A sample of the Certificate of Security Officer
				Training can be viewed at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-15449
,
				and on the division's forms website
https://licensing.fdacs.gov/forms/FormsRequest493.aspx
.
				All training certificates issued by the security officer school or training
				facility must be generated via the online reporting form available through the
				school's required LIAS account referenced in paragraph
				5N-1.142(4)(c),
				F.A.C.
(e) All training programs
				approved by the Florida Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission for
				certification of graduates as law enforcement officers or correction officers
				are deemed to be approved by the department as meeting the training
				requirements of Section
				493.6303(4),
				F.S.
(f) Online training. All or
				part of the prescribed classroom training and testing may be completed through
				live online instruction provided that:
1. One
				or more Class "DI" instructors provide instruction in a live transmission
				format in which the instructor and students are participating in real time
				(simultaneously).
2. The online
				instruction is conducted from a school or training facility in
				Florida.
3. The Class "DS" school
				where the class is being conducted or the Class "DI" instructor conducting the
				online course must provide the department's investigators with live access to
				each course for the purpose of auditing, monitoring, or inspection upon
				request.
4. The online instruction
				and testing is provided through a secure website using a Secure Socket Layer
				(SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology.
5. The student's identity is verified by the
				instructor using the student's U.S. state or federal issued photo
				identification such as a driver license, or state issued identification
				card.
6. The student's daily
				attendance is verified by the instructor and documented in a digital
				log.
7. The Class "DS" school
				conducting an online class must utilize an online platform that limits each
				student's log-in to a single device at all times.
8. The online platform used to conduct an
				online class must include security questions (challenges) to ensure each
				student is actively participating. A student must successfully respond to each
				security question (challenge). At least one security question (challenge) shall
				be provided every two hours of instruction, with the opportunity to re-attempt
				an unsuccessful response within 5 minutes. If a student fails to successfully
				respond to a re-attempted security question (challenge), the online platform
				must mark the student absent. A Class "DS" school may provide a student an
				opportunity to explain an unsuccessful response to a security question
				(challenge) and allow the student to make up time lost due to absence or fail
				the student for non-participation.
9. Live instruction using screens with text
				must require a student to spend a minimum of one minute per every 50 words of
				text before moving to the next screen. An instructor may prorate the minimum
				time spent on each screen having fewer than 50 words. The instructor must
				discuss the content presented in each screen.
10. Students shall be given the opportunity
				to submit questions to a Class "DI" instructor concerning the classroom
				training.
11. If a student is
				absent during an online class, the Class "DS" school may deliver up to 10 hours
				of missed class to the student using recorded instruction. The student shall be
				allowed to submit questions to a Class "DI" instructor concerning the recorded
				instruction.
12. Each test that is
				administered online shall have randomized test questions.
13. Before a Class "DS" school or training
				facility reports a student's successful completion of training to the division,
				it shall verify that he or she completed the online
				training.