NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 25, 2011, the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, received a petition for a permanent waiver of subsection 11B-35.001(7), F.A.C., by Lake Technical Center. Subsection 11B-35.001(7), F.A.C., requires CJSTC certified training schools to teach the most current curriculum approved by the CJSTC. Petitioner wishes to be granted a waiver for a firearms instructor course that it taught July 11, 2011 – July 22, 2011. Petitioner remediated the 14 officers by providing them with the most current curriculum and an errata sheet showing exactly where changes had been made from the curriculum that was used in their course. Petitioner states that the operation of the rule in this particular case poses a substantial hardship to the officers and their agencies because the agencies and officers relied upon the training that the officers received as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the officers to become fully CJTSC certified firearms instructors on behalf of their agencies. Petitioner further states that the principles of fairness are violated by the application of this rule to this situation because the affected officers had no way of knowing that the course they received from Petitioner was not the most up-to-date.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Grace A. Jaye, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, P. O. Box 1489, Tallahassee, FL 32302 or by telephoning (850)410-7676.