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May 5, 2021

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Investigators –

Mike Miranda with
MJ Traffic Accident

Reconstruction, LLC

Join our monthly
trainings via Zoom. February 2021 National Legislative Update On February 10 , 2021 the National Council
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of Investigation and Security Services held a Town Hall webinar which was open to all
investigators and security professionals around the country and provided updates to
these professions. I attended this webinar and wanted to pass along some important
Board meeting 4:30- issues to PPIAC.

5:30 p.m. (voting For the first topic, NCISS discussed the Open Courts Act of 2020, which is a bipartisan
members welcome) effort to eliminate or reduce PACER fees. This bill was introduced in the House on

9/14/2020 and passed the House on 12/8/2020. This bill has now been introduced in
the Senate as S.4988 and is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
6:00 – 6:30 p.m. NCISS also discussed concerns of a federal privacy bill, which is consistent with current

Networking frameworks of the GDPR and the CCPA. The GDPR is Europe’s framework regarding
data privacy and CCPA is California’s privacy act. Currently, states such as New York,
Texas and Virginia are looking at proposals similar to California’s privacy act. The

6:30 p.m. General investigative profession is concerned of privacy acts, both on a federal as well as a
state level because of the potential to be overreaching. Federal privacy data legislation
Meeting is still early in the process, but if Europe and California’s privacy laws are any indicator,
there will likely be some type of federal legislation enacted.

NCISS also discussed their Legislative Advisory Board (LAB) which PPIAC is a part of.
Email With LAB, NCISS and state leaders from around the country are able to discuss and
training@ppiac.org for compare legislative issues which start at the state level and become a precursor to
login info federal legislation, or vice versa. Past LAB meetings have included discussions on state
GPS laws, reciprocity, security and privacy issues, and public records access issues. LAB
attendees can then coordinate efforts to address these issues in the appropriate
manner to benefit the investigative and security professions.

One of the looming issues frequently discussed at LAB meetings is a push to limit or
even eliminate access to DMV records. Privacy advocates and special interest groups
are attempting to change the federal Driver Privacy Protection Act (DPPA). A preferred
tactic of these groups is to create news stories to question the amount of money that

state DMV offices are making. State DMV offices, in turn, are denying motor vehicle
records requests for private investigators who do not meet the permissible purposes