"Since 2017, California’s community colleges have slowly expanded the number of ways that students can get school credit for their prior work experience, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has made it a priority, in part by approving over $34 million in related state funding in recent years. By 2030, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office wants at least 250,000 students to have earned college credit for their work or other “prior learning” experience, and in January, Newsom proposed putting an additional $37 million toward it."

If it's from a recognized institution or organization like the Red Cross, military, known certification like CCNA+ or similar, then it makes a lot of sense. But there are just so many "experience" mills out there that not having some kind of conservative restriction with documentation makes this an open barn door for fake skills proof.