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Believe the Totality of the Evidence - AFI-LLC Newsletter July 2020

IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
-- Believe the Totality of the Evidence
-- IMPORTANT UPDATE - Colorado PI Licensing
-- Investigative Courses – Revised and Relaunched!
-- Agency Information and Principals' CVs (updated 11/01/2019)
-- New Commentary – Believe the Totality of the Evidence
-- FREE Distance Learning Video for July - Private Investigator and Attorney Ethics
-- Books Available
-- Commentary from the blog archives of AFI-LLC
-- Case Studies from AFI-LLC
-- Expert Affiliations
-- Learn Death and Serious Bodily Injury Investigations
-- Associations and News
-- News From Our Profession
- NEW BOOK – Force Concepts by Dennis Root, BCFI CCDI
- SCOTUS – Ineffective Counsel and the failure to conduct a mitigation investigation
- Expert Input - Floyd, Arbery, and Brooks Police Shootings
- WAD Special Offer for NEW Members – 2 years for price of 1
- Utah Ends Residency Requirement for PI Licensing
- PPIAC Special Training Event - Until Proven Guilty: Police Investigative Procedures Explained
-- Legislative News You Can Use... from NCISS
- Now Available! – The Your Advocate (Spring - March 2020)
- Lobbyit Update - In Congress and Inside the Beltway
- Now Available! – 2ND Quarter 2020 NCISS Member Directory and Member Guide
-- The Quint-Essential Qualities of a Professional Investigator
-- IN CLOSING...

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FREE Distance Learning Video for July:
Private Investigator and Attorney Ethics
http://freevideo.InvestigativeCourses.com

Understand the ethics of private investigations - as an investigator,
consumer or client.

Ethics are professional standards that investigators must follow,
particularly if retained by an attorney as their agent. A violation of ethics
can harmful to a case or relationship, even professional licensure can be
disciplined for a violation. For these reasons, it is important that all parties
to the relationship are made aware of these ethics and are guided by them.

Our agency has operated for over 25 years in Colorado, an unlicensed state until 2012 (voluntary, as was our agency)
and mandatory in 2015. During this time it was greatly misunderstood that ethics applied to investigators - even a
District Court judge ruled that without licensure there are no private investigator ethics in Colorado. This refutes that
ruling and informs the student - from consumer to attorney, and interested to veteran private investigator - that there
are ethics that must be followed and apply to both investigator/consumer and investigator/attorney relationships.
Ethics serve both professional and consumer protection. Only facts obtained ethically can be evidence - facts without
ethics is not evidence.

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