I just received my certified letter that the local State Board of Licensure was auditing the Professional Development Hours that I claimed on my last license renewal (08' -'10).
It's really not a problem...just a pain to dig through everything and find all that stuff.
My question is how many other BORs around the country audit regularly?
our state board use to keep track of our hours- they stopped doing that this year- I believe they do an annual audit of a random 5% of the registrants. we have to be able to show we have attended 12 class hours. might be a random 10%..
Alabama does random audits.
If I recall correctly, in Kentucky, it is a random audit of a percent of licensees.
If you are late in filing your license renewal it is an automatic audit.
In reading the association's quarterly magazine, I noticed a few people had disciplinary action for, we'll politely call it - mistakes in their reporting of their PDHs when they renewed their license.
Oregon audits. When they ask for it and you take too much time getting it back to them, they ding you for "failure to maintain".
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Typing class 9th grade!
North Carolina audits up to 10% each year.
A few years back I got a letter saying I was to send them my certificates proving the claimed credits.
I called the board office and politely told them I would not send my certificates.
Not sure they had ever gotten a call like that because the lady didn't know what to say. I told her I would send copies of my certificates but not the originals.
"If I put the originals in the mail and they get lost then neither of us has what we need."
She agreed, I sent the requested information, and everything was fine.
Larry P
Oregon audits about 10% per years, so you can expect to be audited every 10 years, on average. I was audited a few years ago.
I have not been audited by Washington, yet, but they only instituted a PDH requirement a few years ago.
West Virginia randomly audits a percentage annually.
I learned early on to keep those documents together and convenient. I have been registered 14 years, 7 renewals, and audited 4 times with no problems or indications of problems. Random, I'm sure, Lucky, I don't think so.
PLS
Oklahoma
Don't you sleep better at night knowing that some government dolt makes a living checking up to make sure that those surly land surveyors are keeping up with the latest geoid shifts and minimum technical standards updates?
Thank god for the watchers.