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Charles L. Cotton wrote:
It could make it very difficult. For instance If I had to go to Houston during a work day, during work hours, I would have to consider nor renewing. For those living the in big City, and don't have to go to work every day, the inconvenience isn't so great. The One Stop aspect makes it a whole lot easier for working people.

These are good points Liberty. I'll pass them along to Mr. Jones and suggest that they require FAST to have weekend hours and/or some "mobile" franchise holders. CHL applicants shouldn't have to take a day off of work to apply. Of course, no fingerprints at all in 2011 would be even better.

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If it were easily available, it would be a lot more acceptable. The ideal would be if the technology were made directly to the instructors at a reasonable cost. and let the instructors send it directly to DPS themselves or Thumb drive or floppy etc. The technology involved here is still pretty basic, and could be easily duplicated cheaply and easy. Shux my laptop has a lot of this technlogy already designed into it.
The FAST people will be lobbying against us as if their livelihood depends on it. You don't get exclusive contracts in Texas unless you have lots of political pull and friends.

Once you let the bull in up the stairs its pretty rough getting them to leave.

All in all though it looks like there has been huge progress in moving the process along. My renewal process is still a couple years away. I almost look forward to it.

Charles L. Cotton wrote: However, I agree that having to make an appointment with FAST and go to another location will be less convenient on the front end. I don't know what other instructors are going to do, but I will reduce the cost of my classes by the fee I pay to a LEO to roll the prints. (I don't charge for photos since I do them myself.) Hopefully, some FAST franchise holders will be willing to travel to classrooms to do the prints, but even if they do, I suspect they will have a minimum class size requirement.

Chas.

It could make it very difficult. For instance If I had to go to Houston during a work day, during work hours, I would have to consider nor renewing. For those living the in big City, and don't have to go to work every day, the inconvenience isn't so great. The One Stop aspect makes it a whole lot easier for working people.

A 25% reject rate sounds pretty absurd. I know that in the past the FBI wasn't rejecting them at anywhere near at that rate. Somein is getting pretty picky at opur expense. Sounds like these rejects are being done to help out the FAST people. Moving towards FAST means more hassle for applicants and mokes it almost imposible to get it all done in one day. Forcing FAST on us by rejecting more prints isn't streamlining, but sharing the wealth to another psuedo government agency. It means that our aplication fees get a little more expencive.
There have been huge advances in Digital image processing. Before private digital prints were available I will bet that rejects rates were never 25% Yet the DPS is for some reason today is having a more difficult time reading the prints.