In Texas digital forensics are specifically included in the Private Investigator regulations that require a license. It was not an issue as former law enforcement, but I can tell you that there are large number of small forensic shops that have not gotten their licenses. One of the nice offshoots to this in our jurisdiction is that there were a couple of convicted felons who worked for a group of criminal defense lawyers who with no training purchased a Cellebrite and have advertising themselves as forensic experts. Their convictions prevented them from obtaining PI licenses.
To most of us in Texas it seems as a simple effort to Tax us, because while you have to obtain the license there is no specific training requirements for Digital Forensic Investigation Companies and the manager's exam that you have to take to supervise goes over everything from celebrity protection, to K-9 to alarm installation, without a single question about forensics.
↧