The Contractors' State License Board continually sends out people to handle sting operations. Quite often, an unlicensed contractor, or one who has violated the law, may actually be put in hand cuffs and taken to a local jail. In 2008, the CSLB had a record year for conducting over 150 sting operations.
One such example of the CSLB’s sting operations occurred in the early part of this year in Santa Barbara where the Tea Fire area was and all those homes had burned. Members of the CSLB Statewide Investigative Fraud Team (SWIFT) posed as fire victims. They arrested seven suspects on felony charges that they singled out for leaving business cards, flyers and newspaper ads in the fire zone. The CSLB also tries to reduce the fire victims from getting victimized by posting hundreds of warning signs and continually working with police and district attorneys.
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