This Private Eye Was Denied a License Because He Criticized Police
17 September 2021
reason.com
17 September 2021
Occupational licensing has already been called out for hobbling opportunity, impeding mobility, protecting established practitioners from competition, and for raising prices of goods and services. Now there's a new reason to object to turning working in a chosen field from a right into a privilege: the withholding of licenses as a means to punish those who criticize government officials. Specifically, Maine's Department of Public Safety is denying a private investigator's license to Joshua Gray because he publicly condemned a shooting by state troopers. "Gray's problems with the Department began after he criticized the conduct of Maine police in the fatal ...
This Private Eye Was Denied a License Because He Criticized Police
Free speech and occupational licensing collide.
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