Citronix Tech Services – Houston Computer Repair

I was in Austin last week with Mike Rife of AustinPCTech and Thane Hayhurst of iTalent Consulting Group and we filed a lawsuit, with the help of the Institute for Justice (IJ), against the State of Texas for a law they recently passed requiring computer repair technicians to hold private investigator’s licenses for a lot of the computer work we do. I wrote about the law a month ago and will spare you the details here.

In short, the state of Texas passed a law that would computer repair technicians to have a private investigator’s license to perform many kinds of computer work. The license requires a criminal justice degree or a 3 year apprenticeship, and failure to comply carries a penalty of up to one year in prison and $14,000 in fines for both the repair tech and the customer. Requiring computer repair technicians to hold these licenses would put many smaller repair shops out of business.

With the help of IJ, Rife, Hayhurst, a PC repair customer, and I are suing the state of Texas to have the law repealed or have its scope restricted.

Here are some links to news and articles about this case on TV and around the web:

• The Institute for Justice’s original press release
• News 8 Austin with Video
• PostProcess, an E-Discovery and ESI issues blog
• CW33 Dallas News at Nine
• KVUE Austin with Video – get a load of yours truly standing in the back. Bigger video here.

If you find any other coverage of this on the web, please post it in the comments. I’d love to see it. As always, I’ll be updating this blog with news as it happens, so check back regularly, or subscribe to the RSS feed!

“Magnum PI? More like Magnum PC, get my lawyer on the phone!”