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Criminal Justice Academy seeks authority to investigate officers' false certification statements; subcommittee advances rules
Summary
The Criminal Justice Academy asked a House subcommittee to add investigative authority to pursue officers who willfully provide false information on certification paperwork and to correct a standard-of-proof phrase; the panel approved moving both items forward.
Jimmy Fennell, general counsel for the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, told a House Regulations subcommittee that proposed changes would give the academy explicit authority to investigate and, where necessary, prosecute officers who willfully provide materially false information on certification paperwork.
Fennell said current statute and regulation create an "absurd result" where certification-misconduct (including material false statements) is defined but the academy lacks a clear…
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