Article: Florida telephone psychics see a vow of clairvoyance in their future.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

MIAMI _ Floridians who take jobs as telephone psychics don't need licenses, but now recruits of the nation's biggest psychic hotline must sign a sworn statement _ that they really are psychic.

The vow of clairvoyance was the key provision in a legal agreement between the Florida Attorney General's office and Access Resource Services of Fort Lauderdale, which operates the former Psychic Readers Network. Applicants who claim to be psychic _ but aren't _ can be charged with perjury.

``If they're going to advertise for psychics, then their efforts to hire people have to be to hire psychics, not telephone solicitors,'' said Bob Buchner, an assistant attorney ...

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