Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 661 - Public Safety Department › Chapter 121 - Bail Enforcement, Private Investigation, and Private Security Businesses › Rule 661-121.22 - Continuing Education Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The continuing education rules that follow rest upon the
				premise that the increasing complexity of the private investigation business
				makes it essential that private investigators who have been granted licenses to
				practice continue their education; the public interest requires that private
				investigators keep themselves continually up to date on developments affecting
				their practice; and formal programs of continuing education provide private
				investigators the opportunity to continually update themselves on the expanding
				body of knowledge required to practice the private investigation profession.
				Compliance with the continuing education requirements of the department shall
				be as follows:
Each person who is the holder of a license to operate a private
				investigative agency is required to comply with the continuing education
				requirements as a condition precedent to renewal of the person's
				license.
Each person who is the holder of an identification card to
				operate as a private investigator is required to comply with the continuing
				education requirements as a condition precedent to renewal of the employer's
				agency license.
(1)
Cost of
			 continuing education.
All costs of complying with the continuing
			 education requirements of the department are the responsibility of the licensee
			 who seeks to operate a private investigative agency in this state.
(2)
Basic requirement.
A
			 licensee seeking to renew the licensee's private investigative agency license
			 shall, during the two-year period preceding the agency license expiration date,
			 complete a minimum of 12 hours of acceptable continuing education. Employees of
			 licensees shall, during the two-year period preceding the agency license
			 expiration date, complete a minimum of 12 hours of acceptable continuing
			 education. An employee who has worked for a licensed agency for less than 90
			 days at the time of the agency license expiration date shall be exempt from the
			 continuing education requirement of this chapter, provided that during the
			 preceding two years the employee has not been employed as a private
			 investigator for a licensed agency or agencies in this state for a combined
			 total of more than 180 days.
a. Applicants who
			 are residents of another state, who are licensed to operate a private
			 investigation agency in their state of residency, and who are actively engaged
			 in the practice in their state of residence, shall not be required to meet the
			 basic continuing education requirement if their state of residence requires
			 similar continuing education to maintain their private investigative agency
			 license.
b. The commissioner shall
			 have the authority to make exceptions for reasons of individual hardship
			 including health (certified by a medical doctor), military service, foreign
			 residency, or other good cause.
c.
			 Applicants for new licenses who have held a private investigative agency
			 license in Iowa within the past two years shall complete a minimum of 12 hours
			 of acceptable continuing education during the two-year period preceding the
			 date of application.