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A 24-year-old applicant has completed a two-year criminology degree and 80 hours of practical field experience directly related to private investigation. Under current Alabama full-license requirements, which assessment is most accurate?
Correct answer: C - The degree may satisfy the education route, but 40 additional practical field hours are still required.
An Alabama licensed private investigator currently sponsors five apprentices. One apprentice has no assignments this month but remains under the sponsor's active supervision. The investigator is asked to sponsor a sixth apprentice. What should the investigator do?
Correct answer: A - Wait until an existing sponsorship ends; Alabama limits one sponsor to five apprentices at a time.
During a two-year Alabama license period, a private investigator completes 12 continuing-education hours in the first calendar year and 4 in the second. The 16-hour total includes 2 hours of ethics. Which conclusion is correct?
Correct answer: D - The investigator is noncompliant because Alabama requires eight CE hours in each calendar year.
After several lawful attempts, an investigator concludes that locating a witness is obviously unlikely to succeed. The investigator explains the failed leads, likely cost, and limited chance of success, and the client gives written approval for one final records search. What is the proper course?
Correct answer: B - Conduct only the approved final search, document the revised scope, and then reassess.
An investigator located in Alabama participates in a private conversation with a subject, records that conversation, and does not trespass or leave a device behind. All participants are in Alabama. Which statement best reflects Alabama's criminal-eavesdropping definition?
Correct answer: D - The investigator's participation supplies the required one-party consent.
A hotel manager authorizes an investigator to hide an audio device in an occupied guest room. The paying guest is not told, and the device is intended to capture the guest's private conversations. What is the controlling Alabama installation issue?
Correct answer: B - The guest's permission is also required; the manager's approval alone is insufficient.
From a lawful public parking deck, an investigator uses a telephoto lens to record private activity inside a bedroom that cannot be seen with unaided vision from the deck. The footage is never shared. Which civil privacy theory is most directly implicated?
Correct answer: A - Intrusion upon seclusion, which does not require later publication
A person receives an audio file secretly made by a third party who was not part of the private conversation; neither participant consented. Knowing how it was obtained, the recipient uses the recording in a client presentation. Which Alabama offense most directly fits the recipient's conduct?
Correct answer: C - Divulging illegally obtained information, a Class B misdemeanor
A warehouse client insists that one employee stole missing tablets. Access logs show four employees entered the area, and a recent software update may have duplicated inventory deductions. Security video will overwrite in 24 hours. Which plan is most defensible?
Correct answer: A - Preserve the video lawfully, then test both theft and inventory-error hypotheses through records and separate interviews.
Two websites repeat the same commercial database entry linking a subject to an address. An anonymous message repeats the address but gives no source. How should the investigator classify the support for the address?
Correct answer: C - Independent corroboration is lacking; the sites share one source, and the message is unverified.
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