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Cosmetology Board Investigates Student for Giving Free Haircuts to Homeless People | Reason
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called Cosmetology Board Investigates Student for Giving Free Haircuts to Homeless People - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
An unlicensed student gave free haircuts to some homeless people in Tucson, Arizona, and the state\'s cosmetology licensing board was ON IT.
The Arizona State Board of Cosmetology is investigating Juan Carlos Montesdeoca after receiving complaints that he was cutting hair without a license,
. According to the complaint, which Montesdeoca shared with the TV station, the board received an anonymous complaint alleging that Montesdeoca was "requesting local businesses and local stylists to help out with free haircuts (unlicensed individuals) to the homeless."
Montesdeoca gave the free haircuts on January 28 at the library in downtown Tucson. He organized the event through a Facebook group and solicited help from volunteers. He did it "out of the kindness of my heart," and in memory of his mother, who loved her hair, he told
But he forgot to get permission from the state—or, rather, from the cosmetologists who apparently view his act of charity as a form of unwanted competition.
There\'s no shortage of stories about licensing boards using the power of the state to target individuals whose only crime is failing to get permission to start a business. Rarely, though, is the craven anti-competitive nature of those boards made this obvious.
Incredibly, the board is standing by its decision to investigate Montesdeoca.
Donna Aune, the board\'s executive director, declined to comment to
about the "active investigation," but she pointed to a state law prohibiting a person from practicing cosmetology without a license.
She said working outside a licensed salon and using an unlicensed person, is a "real risk."
The risk of getting a bad haircut is certainly chilling. But these were free haircuts. Free haircuts given to people who were in no position to pay for one. I\'m sure they were aware of the risk they were taking by letting the unlicensed Montesdeoca cut their hair outside of a licensed salon environment, but they were probably okay with that level of risk
considering they were homeless and were getting haircuts for free
Stories like this make it clear why Arizona was rated as "the most broadly and onerously licensed state for low-and moderate-income workers," in a 2012 report from the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm that provides support to individuals and businesses that challenge anti-competitive licensing schemes. Earlier this week, we reported on how three women, with help from IJ, successfully defeated a rule from the Arizona State Veterinary Medical Examining Board prohibiting anyone except licensed veterinarians from giving animal massages.
The absurdities of Montesdeoca\'s story are almost overwhelming, but set aside the ridiculousness of this situation for a moment and consider the implied relationship between licensing and quality. Sure, getting a license requires years of training—in Arizona, a cosmetology license requires more than a full year of expensive schooling in a wide range of beauty treatments—but it\'s possible to be skilled in cutting hair without having a government-issued permission slip.
On the flip side, a license isn\'t a guarantee of quality. Here\'s a story about a woman who had her eyebrows burned off at a licensed beauty salon (and also an incredible piece of overly-dramatized investigative journalism) in Arizona. In Tennessee, a cosmetology board tried to stop a start-up business that offered in-home visits from licensed cosmetologists. Similar boards in other states have tried to stop hair-braiding, in order to protect their own members at the expense of low-income individuals who are just trying to make a living and are not a threat to anyone\'s health or safety.
So maybe the Arizona State Board of Cosmetology is interested in something other than quality and public safety.
One of its members, apparently, sees free haircuts for homeless people as a threat to business and the board dutifully is threatening Montesdeoca\'s livelihood. Depending on the outcome of the board\'s investigation, his career as a cosmetologist could be over before it starts.
"Even before I even try to get a license, they can say \'no,\'" he told the TV station.
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An unlicensed student gave free haircuts to some homeless people in Tucson, Arizona
Wait until they crack down on Flowbee sales.
First the unauthorized horse massagers and now the unpermitted haircutters. Arizona certainly didn\'t take long after Sheriff Joe left office to collapse into a Somalian laissez faire hellhole.
The only risk is to Carlos, who will probably pick up lice as a result of his charity (outside of the risk posed by his cosmetology superiors).
Lets just forget about the part about needing permission to give a haircut which is ridiculous
Is this really a threat to competition as i dont think homeless people go pay for haircuts all that much and if they did it would be negligible
It cuts into the pro bono work available to the licensed cosmetologists.
It constricts supply of the raw material that inspires continuous hipster innovation in fashion and grooming.
You really should only want bums stabbed in the neck by people with state protection.
You don\'t know just how dangerous a case this could be ... Today, the homeless. Tomorrow, friends. The next day the entire hair cutting industry is demolished.
but it\'s possible to be skilled in cutting hair without having a government-issued permission slip
Don\'t tell that to my mom when I was 10 years old.
Shit my dad sheared my scalp like a marine growing up.
Nah, I kid. She was actually pretty good at it. No flowbees or bowls involved.
Or my mom. My one buddy cut our hair for free and we kept the money.
OT: If I were on tape playing this game, I would be fired no questions asked. This is why teachers unions don\'t want charter schools.
Reprogal says her son, Treyson, was one of the students named in the video.
Well, did they want to fuck, marry or kill him?
I like all the faux outrage. "Such awful people!" Meanwhile they\'re thinking of all the crap they\'ve done over the years and not gotten caught for.
Pretty poor judgement playing that with such a large group loudly and publically though.
I\'m guessing someone else filmed it. I\'ve seen groups of teachers out drinking before. Everyone there knows immediately that they\'re teachers because they basically announce it. Then they stay playing this game loudly. If you are in public doing something stupid, you will be filmed.
The secretary of the superintendent of Bangor Public Schools has resigned and several teachers were disciplined
Who doesn\'t think that teachers do that kind of stuff all the time? Everyone likes to say mean shit about their customers.
I love how the report tries to sensationalize it by tacking on that some of the student\'s were special needs. So, are you trying to say it wouldn\'t be as bad if it was all normal kids?
In reviewing the latest minutes from the cosmetology board, here are the fine categories that were used.
Advertising differently - 4 fines Delinquent license - 19 fines
So fully 10% of the fines assessed have anything whatsoever to do with safety/health. That\'s a tell.
Sort of like ten commandments being more like six once you get the fealties and paperwork out of the way.
I just want to point out that Board Members Karla Clodfelter, Thomas Rough, and Jessica M. Stall-Rainbow have absolutely hilarious names.
I propose that a license is required to issue licenses. Any group wishing to issue a license for any reason has to get a license from me before they can issue a license. There will be a nominal five thousand dollar non-refundable fee to submit their request, due for each license they wish to issue. I will be open for applications from 10AM to 10:01AM alternate Thursdays, wherever I happen to be. And only one request at a time from any group. Full disclosure; I have no intention of approving any applications at all.
Juan Carlos Montesdeoca thought he was doing an act of charity, but in the eyes of the State Board of Cosmetology, he was putting people in "real risk."
One of the ways people tell the difference between homeless people and "real" people is the grungy, matted hair. If it\'s harder to tell the homeless from the normals, that does put people at "real risk." /sarc
I see a bum outside my office regularly chatting on his cell phone as he\'s begging for change.
Well, it\'s the State\'s job to perform "charity," it\'s everyone else\'s job to be tax cattle. /not really sarc, sadly
"You are hereby summoned to appear before the board at ...."
"A license is what you get when government steals your rights away from you and then sells them back."
Since I get all of my economic knowledge from progressives, I have never heard of regulatory capture or rent-seeking, so I blame deregulation.
You know, you let a few unlicensed haircuts slide and next thing you know, someone\'s opening up a meat pie shop downstairs. Thank God the government is here to protect us!
can investigate all they want. They have no enforcement power over a man. Also, unless one is engaged in commercial activity (making a profit), no state entity, such as courts, has any authority over a man. Carlos Montesdeoca is free to cut anyone\'s hair, with their permission. No one may order him not to. Simple common law - the supreme law of the land.
Commenters on this post would help themselves and others by learning some law - not statute and code, instead of running on emotions only. Real law (common law) will back-up your common sense reasoning.
need in order to earn a living cutting hair.
If you read the article Fatty, Carlos is a student. He was doing this voluntarily, free, as sort of a community service. He doesn\'t earn a living by cutting hair. Of course, if he wanted to earn a living by cutting hair, he\'d need the license.
I\'m sure Tony will be along any minute to lament this poor guys fate.
a state law prohibiting a person from practicing cosmetology without a license
Cosmetology - "the professional skill or practice of beautifying the face, hair, and skin."
Perhaps the problem was with the beautification party. If he just give bad haircuts, he\'d be OK.
The progs did this so your mullet would come out cool> it\'s for your own good, man
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Like damn though it's so sad that they are trying to make voluntary acts of charity illegal. If someone wants to help another person, let them! The world can use every ounce of kindness it can get!
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