Licensing boards have a lot of power, but the public rarely sees their work or thinks about how it affects their lives. But a new book takes a deep look into the work of licensing boards and ...

Last fall, DIAL attributed widespread inconsistency on public disclosure by the various licensing boards to the agency having taken over their administration just a few months before in July 2023.

In its March 2014 decision against the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit observed, "this case is about a state board run by private actors in ...