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Las
Vegas Sun
MT Hot Topic 5
Unlicensed ‘mystery shoppers’ won’t be snooping
in Nevada
06/05/2001 - by GT Staff
Efforts to remove so-called "mystery shoppers" from state
licensing provisions were defeated in the Nevada Legislature through
the efforts of the Society of Professional Investigators and the
support of the AFL-CIO.
Under current law, "mystery shoppers," those investigators
who evaluate business conditions and employees by observation of
"habits, conduct, honesty, integrity, activity, reputation
or character of any person …" must by licensed. Senate
Bill 416 would have removed such operators from licensing as private
investigators.
"This would not only open the door to unaccountable unlicensed
out-of-state mystery-shopping providers, but they would no longer
have to produce the investigator or shopping service spotter at
any labor board hearing, which is currently required under Nevada
law," explained Peter Maheu of Global Intelligence Network.
He noted that present law regulates private investigators through
the Private Investigators Licensing Board of the state Attorney
General’s Office. The AG believes those firms need to be licensed
as private investigators.
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