FALI goes to Washington DC
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Submitted by: Burt Hodge, 2nd Vice President
In the
continuing effort to represent our members before the various regulators, I was
pleased to represent FALI at the NCISS "Hit the Hill” campaign in Washington,
D.C. recently. This is an annual event held in conjunction with their fall
board meeting. Members from across the country are invited to Washington to
meet their legislators and present the view of the professional investigator to
members of the House and Senate.
Brian
McGuinness, former FALI and NCISS president, and I represented Florida while
meeting with staff members from Senator Bill Nelson’s and Senator George
Lemieux’s offices. Brian and I also met with Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
as well as a member of her staff. We were unable to meet with anyone from
Representative Alan Boyd’s staff but did leave him information regarding bills
of interest to the profession.
As a
result of these initial meetings the two of us met with a member of the staff of
the Commerce Committee, which has oversight on a number of the bills that would
affect our businesses.
NCISS
supplied a series of handouts that discussed the investigative profession as
well as positions on a number of bills of interest to us. These bills include
several measures that would deny our access to information along with other
measures dealing with Social Security numbers, caller ID "spoofing”,
surveillance and the retention and expunging of criminal
records.
Due to
my meeting schedule I was able to attend only the last half-hour of the SAAB
meeting at the end of the day. SAAB, the State Association Advisory Board, is a
group of investigators representing the various states.Its purpose is to
exchange information about the state of affairs in each state relating to
investigations and security.
Thanks
to NCISS and all of those who "Hit the Hill” on behalf of investigators and
security personnel.
If you
have any questions regarding specific bills I would encourage you to contact me
or visit NCISS.org for information on the association and its
goals.
On the
state level, several board members have been meeting with candidates to
introduce them to FALI and encourage them to consider the needs of the 493
licensees.
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