Posted by Maureen_nh on 4/22/08 10:48pm
Msg #244635

CA Laws and regulations-Are they working?

It just seems as if you folks are the most highly regulated notaries in the country and still most of the "bad stuff" is coming out of CA, what's up?

Reply by Joan Bergstrom on 4/23/08 12:41am
Msg #244640

What kinds of bad stuff are you talking about?

Reply by JanetK_CA on 4/23/08 2:22am
Msg #244644

Here's a little perspective for you: one out of every eight Americans lives in California. Orange County, where I live, has about 1/10th the area of your entire state, but more than twice the population -- and that's just one small county! So we have more than our share of everything, including the "bad stuff". It's just a matter of sheer numbers...

Reply by Maureen_nh on 4/23/08 6:25am
Msg #244645

Gotcha!
A bigger barrel for the rotten apples.

Reply by Pat/CA on 4/23/08 10:00am
Msg #244687

These were my exact thoughts! So I'm thankful...

our SOS is doing everything it can to uphold our profession as dignified!

Reply by Charles_Ca on 4/23/08 12:48pm
Msg #244705

Don't sweat it Janet, just another case of climate envy ;) n/m

Reply by Gary_CA on 4/23/08 1:45pm
Msg #244715

that was a better argument last week :( n/m

Reply by Charles_Ca on 4/23/08 6:20pm
Msg #244758

Actually Gary, having lived in the area that argument is

valid 9 months of the year! New England has Winter and Summer and Summer only lasts July and August!

Reply by JanetK_CA on 4/24/08 2:29am
Msg #244798

Re: Don't sweat it Janet, just another case of climate envy ;)

Must be something like that. Besides, my outside workday ended today doing a final doc check while sitting in my car on a hill overlooking Laguna Beach with the sun going down behind me. The temperature was perfect and the view couldn't get much better! So I'm cool...

Reply by Gary_CA on 4/23/08 11:55am
Msg #244699

A solution looking for a problem...

There's plenty of loan "bad stuff" in CA, but not much notary misbehavior that I'm aware of... okay there's a few newbies "Doing Notaries" but we hardly consider that a sin in CA, much less a crime.

Our latest set of new laws really changed very little... took away our ability to notarize on personal knowledge, but that's rare... and it requires us to sign acks "under penalty of perjury"

Well, hell, before that law I was signing acks under an oath to serve my State and protect it's constitution... if that wasn't enough this wouln't help.

So the bad stuff still plods along and good notaries still out number bad ones 10 to 1... and we've spent a little money complying with the latest Sacramento Sillines (actually notary laws are some of the cheapest silly things they do, so it's all good.)

Reply by Glenn Strickler on 4/23/08 3:51pm
Msg #244735

Maureen, you need some perspective ....

The population of you state is about 1.3 million. The population of California ia about 38 million. Of course you will have more problems coming out of California just due to sheer numbers. The County I live in has nearly 3 times the population of your entire state ...... Just some perspective.