From a past president who has been screaming from the mountaintops that the sky is falling regarding a shortage of steno reporters across the country; has a company that uses steno reporters remotely;  is pushing for a national notary so witnesses can be sworn in across the country from his own basement: 

“I’ll try to be less snarky … We NEED a way to swear witnesses nationally.” 

Yep, you’ve read it correctly.  His thoughts from his head down to his fingers, sent from us to you.

Like we’ve said before:  The National Court Reporters Foundation is putting together a “best practices” guide for remote reporting (paid for by the sweat of the donations of Angels!) to benefit one remote reporting company.  This “best practices guide” will be wonderful for marketing, along with the sanctioning that the title of “president of NCRA” will give them.  It will be so much easier with a national notary, too.

And here we also have a quote from an NCRA board member recently appointed by the board, even though he lost a past election or two:

“Kudos to Reesa, Bill, Judy, and whoever else may be involved. A remote reporter fills the gap in remote areas where, yes, the shortage (or unwillingness to move there) doesn’t allow for a reporter on-site.”

So, do you think that “Reesa, Bill, Judy, and whoever else may be involved” (in the remote reporting company) are going to show up with NCRF’s best practices guide, the imprimatur of two past presidents and one past NCRA board member, AND a national notary, and limit their marketing to “remote areas where, yes, the shortage (or unwillingness to move there) doesn’t allow for a reporter on-site”? 

Yeah, we don’t think that they’re going to stop where there is a perceived shortage either.   Of course, we believe that the shortage is going to be work for reporters living in every state in the country that the remote reporting company enters.

Wake Up, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

P.S. Please send this to steno reporters that you know, so they are informed about what the National Court Reporters Foundation is spending their hard-earned donations on AND what past and present leadership are doing to line their own pockets.

P.P.S.  NCRA Board: How much more are you going to help the national consolidators put your rank and file membership/local reporters out of business? You MUST put a kibosh to the NCRF publishing “best practices” for a company owned by former leaders of NCRA.  When is enough going to be enough already?