Legislation
ISPLA Continues Great Work with Equal Justice, Sixth Amendment, Wrongly Accused, Innocence, and Indigent Defense Projects
“The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours.” – Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
This is an ISPLA update on part of our work the past year with Equal Justice, Sixth Amendment, Wrongly Accused, Innocence, and Indigent [...]
ISPLA Update: Prohibition on the Use of Video Surveillance
ISPLA has been representing investigative and security professionals regarding a bill about which we previously issued an alert soon after its introduction on April 15.
S. 3214, the Surreptitious Video Surveillance Act introduced by Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), if enacted, would amend Title III of the Omnibus Crime and Control Act of 1968 as amended by [...]
ISPLA Update: Anti-Spoofing and Surveillance Bills
During the past two weeks, ISPLA has been visiting members of Congress in Washington, DC regarding several anti-spoofing bills, which have already passed in either the Senate or House, and researching a surreptitious surveillance video bill recently introduced in the Senate.
ANTI-SPOOFING LEGISLATION – As previously reported, we conferred offices of each sponsor of anti-spoofing bills:
S.30, [...]
ISPLA: FTC Could Become More Powerful, Not Good for Investigators
The Federal Trade Commission could become more powerful with a provision tucked in the financial reform bill H.R. 4173, the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009” that would expand its rule-making abilities, according to a Washington Post article of April 26, 2010.
Consumer protection groups support such a result, which has recently prompted [...]
International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act
SENATORS HATCH AND GILLIBRAND INTRODUCE FIRST OF ITS KIND MEASURE TO BOLSTER CYBERSECURITY – Bill Fosters International Coordination, Cracks Down on Foreign Countries That Offer Cyber Criminals Havens…
Washington, D.C. March 23, 2010 – With the growing cost of cybercrime, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act, [...]
New York City Passes Tougher Process Server Licensing and Regulations
The deliberate failure by some process servers to deliver the notification of a court filing followed by a false affidavit of successful delivery has been described “as a rising problem” in New York City and was outlined in our article “Fraudulent Service of Process Continues to Plague New York” published in October 2009. In response, [...]
29Mar2010 | Stephanie Mitchell | 4 comments | Continued
ISPLA Represents Industry at Final FTC Roundtable in Washington, D.C.
The Federal Trade Commission held their final roundtable on consumer privacy issues March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The roundtable is the last of three public events designed to explore the privacy challenges that are posed by technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data. Investigative and Security Professionals for Legislative Action (ISPLA) [...]
19Mar2010 | ISPLA | 0 comments | Continued
Repo Man Might Face Extinction in the Future: Repossession Agents Under Fire!
The National Consumer Law Center released “Repo Madness: How Automobile Repossessions Endanger Owners, Agents and the Public.” It is a publication promoting legislation restricting repo work to sworn law enforcement officers.
It is posted on-line at:
http://www.nclc.org/issues/auto/content/Repo_madness_Report_0310.pdf
Here is the included press release via PR NEWSWIRE
Repo Madness Threatens Consumers
BOSTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Dozens of consumers, repossession [...]
ISPLA Legislative Update
Rep. Charles B. Rangel [D-NY-15] has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a leave of absence from his position as chairman of powerful Committee on Ways and Means due to recent findings of the House Ethics Committee. Congressman Rangel, 79, a twenty term member of Congress, has long been regarded as one of its [...]
5Mar2010 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued
ISPLA Participates in DOJ Symposium on Indigent Defense
At the invitation of the U.S. Department of Justice, Investigative & Security Professionals for Legislative Action board member Nicole Bocra and government affairs director Bruce Hulme participated in the National Symposium on Criminal Defense last week in Washington, D.C. The symposium was organized to correct deficiencies presently existing in the legal representation of the [...]
24Jan2010 | ISPLA | 0 comments | Continued
S560, The Employee Free Choice Act, Dead?
Contract security guard companies can breathe a bit easier; the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) seems to be near dead in the water, now that the Democrats lost their 60-vote majority in the Senate. In addition, the loss of a potential appointee to the National Labor Relations Board this week occurred when Republicans blocked the [...]
8Jan2010 | Bruce Hulme | 0 comments | Continued
Private Investigators in a Changing Political Climate
[This is a very good update by Bruce Hulme, the investigations industries' undisputed top politico, as to what has just occurred in D.C. and the political climate from an industry point of view. It also reiterates our immediate need for a PAC and answers some very common questions about PAC's. Working with everyone in D.C. [...]
7Jan2010 | ISPLA | 1 comment | Continued
Michigan Bail Bond Personnel Licensure Act Before the State Legislature
There is yet another move in Michigan to wrangle in the Bail Agents, Fugitive Recovery Agents and Bail Bond Runners working within the state- this time in the form of Michigan House Bill 5536, the “Bail Bond Personnel Licensure Act.”
Read the original bill here.
This bill has not yet been approved by either the Senate or [...]
6Jan2010 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued
ISPLA Represents Industry at Congressional Briefing on Indigent Criminal Defense
Peter Psarouthakis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Investigators & Security Professionals for Legislative Action (ISPLA) testified on behalf of the investigative industry on December 14th at critical hearings held in Detroit, Michigan.
He provided comments to both the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Briefing on Solutions to the Indigent Defense Crisis and the Michigan House [...]
