PHOENIX - A bill to ease the state's regulation of concealed weapons permits is halfway through the Legislature.
The House approved the bill on a vote of 49-7 Thursday, sending it to the Senate
The bill's provisions include several reducing the role of the state Department of Public Safety in certifying the training process.
Those provisions include one to eliminate current requirements that training instructors pay the DPS a fee, submit fingerprints and undergo a federal background check.
Another change would allow a firearm training program using NRA-certified instructors to not have to obtain DPS approval.
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/arizona-lawmakers-ok-bill-to-ease-regulation-of-concealed-weapons-permits#ixzz1lbquVIvh
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The Sixth Annual Great Arizona Teach-In...
The Arizona Department of Education/Exceptional Student Services is excited to announce the Sixth Annual Great Arizona Teach-In.
This 'One-stop' education career fair will provide comprehensive information to current and future education professionals. Arizona schools will be recruiting SLPs, Special Educators, General Educators, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, Related Service Providers, and more!
Schools from around the state will be conducting on-site interviews to obtain the best and brightest to serve Arizona students. Arizona colleges and universities will be on hand to provide information on programs and resources for participants. Schools from around the state will provide information on career opportunities, and conduct on-site interviews.
Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa
9495 W. Coyotes Blvd. Glendale, AZ 85305
Saturday, May 19, 2012
10:00am - 3:00pm
*ARIZONA FINGERPRINTING SERVICES WILL BE ON-SITE FOR THE FINGERPRINTING NEEDS.
*THE COST WILL BE $15.00 PER CARD. CASH, CHECK AND MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
*FINGERPRINTING BOOTH WILL BE SET-UP BETWEEN 9:00 A.M. TIL 4:00 P.M.
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This coupon is valid until January 2013
Please visit www.smithcraven.com for more legal/technical information
regarding MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
Please call Frank Price www.elementsaz.org regarding the application process
@ 520.249.4372 and Massage Therapist - $40/hr.
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Electronic livescan...
Phoenix - State of Arizona is not design to transmit any fingerprints from private agencies to any other agencies.
Most States understands and accepts the fact that manual ink fingerprinting is okay to be mail.
This is not about getting better result from your prints using livescan, still not 100%.
If you really do have bad prints, you cannot do anything about it. You will hear different excuses why fingerprint card applications are being rejected like; smudges, inks too light/dark, not rolled enough, poor quality or they just tell you to find electronic livescan, etc.
This are the common reasons and excuses that you will hear.
It is not all about having and needing livescan fingerprinting. It is all about the technician rolling your fingerprints. Proper training and techniques are the one that make all the prints best possible.
The Arizona Fingerprinting Services will issue Fingerprint Certification in performing the manual ink fingerprinting to an individual as requested.
www.arizonafingerprintingservices.com
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28th of January 2012 Saturday, 9AM - 3PM
10th of December 2011 Saturday, 9AM - 4PM
*ARIZONA FINGERPRINTING SERVICES WILL BE ON-SITE FOR THE FINGERPRINTING NEEDS.
*THE COST WILL BE $15.00 PER CARD. CASH, CHECK AND MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
*FINGERPRINTING BOOTH WILL BE SET-UP BETWEEN 9:00 A.M. TIL 4:00 P.M.
For the first time ever the Elements Caregiver Collective will be open to the public. REGISTER TODAY AT: elementsaz.org
28th of January 2012 Saturday, 9AM - 3PM
10th of December 2011 Saturday, 9AM - 4PM *ARIZONA FINGERPRINTING SERVICES WILL BE ON-SITE FOR THE FINGERPRINTING NEEDS.
*THE COST WILL BE $15.00 PER CARD. CASH, CHECK AND MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
*FINGERPRINTING BOOTH WILL BE SET-UP BETWEEN 9:00 A.M. TIL 4:00 P.M.
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PHOENIX - AZDPS is currently exploring legislative changes to modify A.R.S. 41-1750 (G). It will change the Arizona Department of Public Safety pertaining the State Criminal/Personal background check for obtaining information by the requestor, known as the “Arizona State Record Reviews” and “The Group of Private Companies wishing to have State Level Background Check only” with minimal fee; i.e., people from churches, boys and girls club, volunteers, etc., which their fingerprints must be done by local law enforcement agencies only.
Private sector doing fingerprints will not be accepted by AZDPS to process the “record reviews” and “State level background check”. Therefore, this will create total hardships from the requestors that have very limited time and conflict schedules from variety of reasons.
The Arizona Fingerprinting Services suggesting different route in obtaining background check into much better way not just for the specific State but for all the States which does not require you to go to a local law enforcement agencies to be fingerprinted...
Keep in mind, most of the (government or private) applications you will see or receive that requires fingerprinting always suggested to be done from the Police Stations. This is just a default mode/suggestion that needs to be mentioned as a part of the application, which people are not aware that it is okay for them to go or use private companies doing fingerprinting.
Give us a call, make an appointment and we will definitely make it happen and make it easier for you… 623.907.6388 or 623.692.5256 - Think simple, think easy…
Arizona Fingerprinting Services
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PEORIA, AZ - Medical marijuana may be on hold, but that isn't stopping cities from approving applications. Peoria's Planning and Zoning Commission recently approved permit requests for two medical-marijuana dispensaries.
The Arizona Republic reports one applicant hopes to open at the southeast corner of Loop 101 and Peoria Avenue, while another wants to open at the northwest corner of Lake Pleasant and Beardsley roads.
Medical marijuana clinics are in limbo as the state seeks clarity on whether a voter-approved ballot measure conflicts with federal drug laws.
State voters said in November that they're OK with medical pot use for cancer patients and those with other debilitating illnesses.
Things were moving along until a letter from the U.S. Attorney for Arizona warned the state Health Director of prosecution of prospective pot growers and sellers under federal drug-trafficking laws.
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NEVADA - This comes from the Director of the Nevada Police Chief's Association and should be on their site soon! Effective July 1, 2011 Nevada will begin recognizing Arizona CCW Permits!
www.nvsca.com
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PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry guns into most government buildings that don't have armed guards or metal detectors in place.
The bill was one of 14 that the Republican governor vetoed Friday as she completed action on items the GOP-led Legislature approved during its 2011 regular session. Brewer also signed 29 bills Friday. In all, she signed 357 bills and vetoed 29.
Topics of other bills vetoed Friday included business property taxes, county personnel changes, fireworks and the state's Sept. 11 monument. Bills she signed Friday include ones regarding drunken-driving laws and public employee retirement systems.
Brewer said the gun bill's many provisions on various firearms topics lacked clarity, including where guns would have been prohibited and where they would have been allowed. Describing herself as a gun-rights backer, Brewer said she will work in coming months on "a clear and pragmatic solution to expand the application of our Second Amendment rights in Arizona."
While critics called the bill an unfunded mandate on local governments because of the security costs that would be needed to ban guns, supporters said the bill would protect the rights of gun owners and allow them to defend themselves if attacked in a public building that doesn't have security in place. The veto leaves law-abiding people disarmed in "self-defense free zones," the bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Ron Gould of Lake Havasu, said in a Twitter post Friday night.
The bill wouldn't have applied to courthouses, prosecutor's offices and police buildings. The bill also exempted public events and multipurpose facilities used for sporting events, conventions or other cultural activities. The measure would not have lifted the current ban on taking guns into K-12 schools, nor would it have disturbed a state law that lets colleges and universities have bans of their own.
Public comments received by Brewer in support of the bill outnumbered those against it, 754 to 111, according to a tally released Friday by Brewer's office. It reported comments received on pending legislation during the seven days that ended Wednesday. Brewer this year signed several minor bills supported by gun-rights advocates but she vetoed a major one April 18.
That bill would have allowed guns on public rights of way on university and community college campuses. She said it was so poorly written and subject to interpretation that it could apply to K-12 schools.
Brewer in the past two years signed two major gun-rights measures. One allows concealed weapon permit holders to bring firearms in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, unless the establishment prohibits it. The other made Arizona the third state to allow carrying a concealed weapon without a permit in most places.
A legislative fiscal report on the public buildings bill said it would cost from $5,000 to $95,000 to secure each public entrance to a state or local government building, depending on whether personnel to guard the entrance are already present.
Approximately $5,000 per entrance would be one-time expenses for purchase of screening equipment and gun storage lockers, while costs for security personnel would be an ongoing expense, according to the analysts.
The Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson was a prominent element of the Senate's debate on the bill, but it was hardly mentioned during the House's subsequent vote. The assassination attempt on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a shopping center parking lot left six people dead and wounded 12 others besides the congresswoman.
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PEORIA, AZ - A proposal to fingerprint patients at the pharmacy when they pick up narcotics popular among drug abusers is catching the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union .
Peoria city and police officials presented to the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy a plan to help them fight prescription drug crimes. City Attorney Steve Kemp says fraudulent prescription crimes have increased six fold since 2007.
"We have a problem with fraudulent prescriptions and the value of the pills on the street," Kemp said Friday. Kemp presented a plan that would first require pharmacies to report fraudulent prescriptons. Police officials told the board that one pharmacy had 30 fraudulent and forged prescriptions, but only had reported two of them.
City officials also want pharmacies to be required to purchase high quality video cameras and place them near the counters. The video would then be kept for 60 days.
"That way we can identify a person presenting the fraudulent prescription," Kemp said. But the most controversial part of the plan is requiring pharmacies to collect identification information, including fingerprinting those picking up narcotics popular among abusers.
"I don't like labeling patients who take chronic medications as abusers," said John Musil, a board member and pharmacist. Musil also strongly opposed collecting fingerprints. "I don't see why I as a pharmacist am now going to become a law official, that's not what I was trained to do," Musil said.
ACLU Arizona Director Dan Pachoda also spoke at the meeting. Pachoda said the ACLU didn't see a problem with the cameras, but fingerprinting would be unconstitutional under the 4th Amendment
"You can't just willy nilly take the prints of everybody because it's nice for you as law enforcement to have a pool of prints to use at some future date," Pachoda said. "You have to have an individualized suspicion." "I would like to see the city come back to us with a different plan," Musil said.
Kemp says the city is just initializing the discussion to get input on how to battle the crimes, but could see the plan going statewide since all cities statewide are needing to confront the issue.
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PHOENIX - As Arizona's December unemployment rate was released thousands lined up for job fairs. The Department of Commerce says the 9.4 percent of Arizonans are without a job. Although the percentage is the same as November, the state had a positive gain of about 3,400 jobs.
The department's monthly report says the private sector added 7,000 jobs in December while government lost 3,600, with most of those in local public education due to holiday breaks. Retail trade added 4,000 jobs due to seasonal hiring.
Despite the positive news, state economists still believe Arizona and the United States are years away from seeing the unemployment numbers before the recession.
"Nationally they are thinking it would be at the end of 2016," Arizona’s Director of Economic Analysis said. "It all depends on how many jobs get gained and at what rate."
A number of employers throughout the Valley held job fairs Thursday coinciding with the latest jobs number. At the Double Tree hotel off of 44th Street and Van Buren in Phoenix, Jasper Contractors was looking to fill some 300 positions. Thousands attended with resumes in hand. Darell Young said he has been turned down from more jobs than he can remember in the year he has been unemployed. "I would want to count them for you, but I would have to use my hands and my toes. it's been a lot," Young said.
Many parents were also at the job fair. Adam Albelo has no job, four kids and another on the way. He says providing for his family was difficult before, but now without a job it is much harder. "I don't even have a high school education,” Albelo said. “I didn't graduate. I had kids early so I had to stop and start working. "With his unemployment benefits about to run out, Albelo says he needs to find work quickly to support his family.
"When there's no money there's no food, there's no lights, there is no anything,” Albelo said. “It gets hard, it gets tough, but you make way; that's why I'm here.”
In the past year, Arizona has gained 33,000 more jobs than it has lost. The biggest job losses are in the construction industry and government.
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$50 million grant to reward Valley teachers...