fingerprints

Makes no sense.?ÿ Absolutely no reason for you to have to do this.

I would suspect it has to do with felonies and background checks. Another form of regulation. Don't worry Texas isn't the only State requiring it.?ÿ

Do you have to give fingerprints to buy a gun in Texas??ÿ How about a Real Estate License? Or member of the Texas Bar??ÿ?ÿ

@daniel-ralph

Real estate in Colorado required finger prints when I was being considered for licensed property manager.

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Not sure about Texas.

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If I dont want to be somewhere,?ÿ I just wear gloves.

So if you see me wearing gloves and its 90?øF something might be happening.....?ÿ ?ÿ 😉

@jitterboogie?ÿ Hum. I bet with all the CV-19 and folks wearing gloves everywhere...now could be your time to make the move and not look suspicious.

@stlsurveyor

Ha!

Im so clean even the Agency gets nervous when im out and about.

Ask me about the time I was asked to survey a lot line outside the secretive low key not obvious FBI building sometime.

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Fun times!

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A few years back it became a requirement for teachers here to have their fingerprints taken and provided to the State Department of Education.?ÿ Mrs. Cow thought that was silly as she had already been corrupting little minds for over 30 years with no need for fingerprinting.?ÿ She called our buddy, the sheriff, and he welcomed her to stop in.?ÿ He suggested a specific time when there would be a little extra help in his office.?ÿ He has provided this service to many dozens of teachers since the law came into effect.?ÿ I went with her to witness the fun I knew the sheriff would have while taking care of business.?ÿ He pretended to run them through a data base that showed her fingerprints had showed up in a bank heist in Georgia or somewhere else she had never been.?ÿ She is so gullible, she about flipped out on the spot.?ÿ They don't frequently get that much laughter all at once at the County Jail.

My fingerprints have been on file for over 40 years since the day I went to work for a Government contractor and would end up having a Top Secret clearance.

Back in the day, one of them anyway, I was a licensed securities agent, mutual funds but not individual stocks. Both state and federal licenses are required and the FBI did my fingerprints. Security was heavy at their office with a thick wall about 4 or 5 feet inside the door. A tech came out and did the work. When he finished I was invited to leave immediately, which I did. Not a very friendly place.

@stlsurveyor

Which other states require finger printing for land surveyors?

This is a state legislature mandate in Texas for most professions for the Criminal background check.?ÿ This was mandated by the Legislature for Surveyors to be included and would have happened whether or not the Board of Land Surveying had been combined with the Board of Engineering or not.?ÿ You are supposed to be able to get a fingerprint card done by a local law enforcement agency and be able to mail it in to the company that is doing the back ground check. See the information from the TBPLES website.?ÿ I do not know how far out in the rural communities you are.?ÿ I will be getting mine done within 30 miles of my home in North East Texas.

Posted by: @randy-hambright

Well, I guess that since us Texas Licensed Surveyors joined the Engineering Board, we now have to have our fingerprints sent in before a new renewal will be issued. I live and work in a very rural area and do not want to drive to the nearest big town to have this done, (I hate big towns). I asked our local sheriff office is by chance they can do this, but they declined. Any other options besides spending my time and gasoline trekking to the City?

BTW, I get it, but why should I spend my own time and money. Thanks

Try living in another state that doesn't have any branches of the one company Texas decided to give a monopoly to.?ÿ

In theory local law enforcement agencies can do it, but as you have seen, non are willing.?ÿ

Still haven decided whether to give up my Texas licence or not.

@jonathan-cooper

Every local law enforcement office I contacted said no way. I will have to either hop on a plane or give up my Texas licence. This along with the stranglehold on approving continuing education may push me over the edge.?ÿ

@randy-hambright

It's my understanding that you can do that online. I'm guessing something like putting your hand on the scanner/copier/printer and scanning your hand, but that's just a guess, I haven't done it. It is done thru IdentoGO

I'm thinking anyone with a license to carry shouldn't have to. They could just get the fingerprints from DPS. But that would require one state agency talking to another.

Maybe someone in Texas that has already done it can chime in and tell us how to do it.

EDIT, I guess I totally misunderstood, you schedule online the show up in person.

@aliquot?ÿ I understand what you are saying.?ÿ The good news is that continuing education is about to get easier.?ÿ It appears that they are moving our CEU requirements over to something more like what the engineers have with the new rules that are coming out soon.

@aliquot

check with notaries. There are private services that can do fingerprinting, and they are all over.

It is shocking that the police department will not do this. Check with the teachers in the area, I am sure they need to have this done as well.

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@jonathan-cooper

a side benefit might be to reduce the people that hold licenses that never set foot in TX. Might have to see if we can add this to our rules over here!

@jonathan-cooper

That's good news!

@dmyhill

There are a few places offering fingerprint services. The problem is Texas will only allow the fingerprints to be done by one specific company or law enforcement. Law enforcement might be willing to do it normal times, but not to meet another States requirments during?ÿCovid.?ÿ

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