NEW TRAINING PROGRAMS

NEW!! EMERGING PRIVACY ISSUES TRAINING
Monday, September 25, 2006
8:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Topics will include:

• Strategic Approach to Protecting Personal Privacy
• Ensuring Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Compliance and Developing PIA Policy
• Privacy from the Security & IT Perspectives: What do they need from us?

NEW!! NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE INFORMATION AGE: COOPERATION OR COLLISION
Monday, September 25, 2006
12:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Topics will include:

• Why Do We Need a Program on National Security?
• Thoughts on National Security and Open Government
• Protecting Information During the War on Terror: How Far is Too Far?
• When Does National Security Stop and Privacy Begin?
• Thoughts on Classification…and Reclassification.
• Life After Automatic Declassification.

THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & TRAINING CONFERENCE
Tuesday and Wednesday, September 26, and 27, 2006

Marching to a New Order
Topics will include:

• Keynote address on September 26, by Dr. Allen Weinstein, Ninth Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration

Marching to a New Order
When the President issued an executive order in December ordering federal agencies to give new attention to processing Freedom of Information Act requests, every agency named high level officials to oversee the programs and lay new plans for improvement. Those plans are all in now and represent new thought about the old problems FOI processors face. What have they come up with? Are there ideas in these plans that you can use too? The titular panel for this year's Symposium "Marching to a New Order" includes representatives of large and small agencies whose plans were exemplary, a member of the Justice Department review team who has singled out the best of the new ideas and a director of an open government organization who spearheaded the effort by public interest groups to review the new plans.

A Privacy Wake for the Thefts of Government Records
When a Department of Veterans Affairs employee took some work home — and someone stole the computer he carried it home on, there were rampant fears that information on thousands of persons served by the VA had been compromised. The computer was recovered and the fears were unrealized, but the incident triggered a push for better safeguards. A panel of government insiders and privacy experts will discuss new sensitivities to privacy and how and whether they will work.

Branching out — Congress and the Courts have their say
FOIA policy does not just emerge from the executive branch. Congress and the courts also take a keen interest in the state of public access to government information. Congress has taken some steps to open up information — and some other steps that would shut it down. The courts have decided to open up Abu Ghraib information and the government has agreed rather than continue its appeal. This year has brought court decisions on fees, personnel records and other issues and some cases still are to be resolved. Hear what has happened in the other branches from a handful of congressional staffers and public interest litigators.

The government Web — Is it coming and going?
Affirmative disclosure was supposed to be an answer to too many requests: If the agency puts its information up on its Web site, who would need to ask for it? But as information goes up, it also comes down. A NARA specialist will preview new plans to public electronic workbenches for popular searches on the Web. But information comes and goes. The first major foray into compelled posting, the Toxic Release Inventory, is in jeopardy as the Environmental Protection Agency suggests the requirements be cut back. Concern is high that other information may be cut back as well. Also joining us on this Web panel will be governmental watchdogs who have voiced concern that information such as that in the Toxic Release Inventory is being lost.

National Security — Classified, unclassified and declassified
As the War on Terror continues, more unclassified information is withheld for national security reasons, more information is classified, and even declassified information that was up and available is subject to reclassification. In the confusion, executive branch archivists and national security experts debate among themselves about how to decide where lie the dangers that terrorists might benefit from openness and where lurk the threats to a participatory democracy. Hear what they have to say and think about how it can affect your work, your safety and your principles.

FOIA in its 40th year goes around the world
ASAP celebrated the 40th birthday of the Freedom of Information Act in July, a year after celebrating the 25th birthday of the organization itself. The experiences of FOIA in the United States have been studied around the world and many countries have new laws that sometimes emulate and sometimes even improve upon the examples we provided to the international community. British law enforcement officers, for the first time looking at mandatory disclosures, are joining us for this conference to learn more about how we do things and to tell us what their experiences with their very new law are. They will be joined by experts in international and state FOI laws.

Does expediency trump oversight in government contracts?
When the government looks to contractors, Freedom of Information rules generally do not apply. Public oversight, first goal of the FOIA and inherent in mandatory agency disclosures, may not necessarily exist when contractors do the work. They can legally keep many of their records secret. When FOIA fails to give answers, whistleblowers may choose to give them instead. And congress may get involved, as it did in its oversight hearings last summer. A study by the Government Accountability Office revealed the widespread existence of contractors in Iraq and how little the public knows about them. Its findings are all about oversight and a panel discusses what those findings might mean in Iraq and elsewhere when agencies choose to contract out.

Public notions about privacy intrusions
When the public thinks about intrusions upon privacy, it doesn't generally think in terms of the Privacy Act. Instead it thinks about "identity" theft issues which have come to the fore in the last decades. And it is increasingly wary of the chance of government intrusions on privacy - facial scanning and no fly lists, for instance. A panel of privacy experts addresses privacy fears and facts and how they may play out in the future.

Wrap up
Dan Metcalfe, Director of the Department of Justice's Office of Information and Privacy
Will Ferroggiaro, Writer, consultant

Emerging Privacy Issues and National Security are half day programs. Please see registration fees.

THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & TRAINING CONFERENCE — The program is designed to meet the needs of the more experienced access professional with thought-provoking and inspirational, even controversial content. Also, there will be sessions dealing with the practical day-to-day applications and implications of access and privacy issues.

Panels will address electronic posting, guidance and policy, the privacy/public interest dilemmas, continuing effects of the new national security needs, the role of the record keepers and program offices, litigation, legislation, how academics view the progress of access laws, and much, much more.

THE PARTICIPANTS — Anyone who works with the release of government information or is interested in obtaining government information should attend this program. This includes attorneys, paralegals, contractors, regulated business and industry, FOIA officers, disclosure officers, Privacy Act system managers, federal investigators, program managers, security officers, personnel officers, contract officers, journalists, concerned citizens, etc.

ASAP General Membership Meeting September 27, 2006

PROGRAM INFORMATION

PROGRAM LOCATION — Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (RRB/ITC), 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20004.

Building entrances to use are (you may be redirected at entrances in order to accommodate new security technology):

1. Federal Triangle Metro (Blue & Orange Lines) entrance on the concourse level in the building.
2. Street or Metro Center (Blue, Orange & Red lines about 2-3 block walk) use the 13th Street & Pennsylvania Ave. entrance in the Rotunda.

TRANSPORTATION — The major area airports are Baltimore-Washington International, Dulles International and Ronald Reagan National. Ronald Reagan National Airport is the most convenient airport to the program site in downtown Washington, D.C.

PARKING — Parking is limited downtown. Participants should consider using Metrorail.

HOTEL REGISTRATION & RATES — ASAP has not reserved a block of guest rooms at any area hotel due to the fact that most attendees are already in the Metropolitan area. If you need a hotel room, please call the following downtown Washington, D.C. hotels and ask for the government per diem. They are all within a short walking distance of the RRB/ITC.

Willard Inter-Continental Washington 1401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (202) 628-9100	J W Marriott 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., N W (202) 393-2000
Hotel Washington 515 15th Street, NW (202)-638-5900	Marriott Metro Center 775 12th Street, NW (202) 737-2200

HOW TO REGISTER — Telephone registrations are not accepted. Please complete the registration form and mail, fax or electronically submit it to ASAP with your training authorization or payment. If you are not submitting a training authorization or payment, then a credit card number and signature are needed to hold the registration. Credit card billing will take place prior to the program. Submitting a registration form without proper payment authorization will not hold the reservation nor guarantee the price. Persons registering in a timely fashion with completed authorizations or payment should check ASAP's Web site at www.accesspro.org for confirmation of registration acceptance, thereby eliminating the need to call the ASAP office. We require a 72-hour turnaround time on the posting of registrations. ASAP's fax number is 202-216-9646.

Seating is limited for these programs. ASAP reserves the right to close registration when capacity is reached.

FEES & PAYMENT — The Annual Symposium & Training Conference is a two-day program. There are no one-day registrations. Government purchase orders, training payment authorizations, checks, credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, IMPAC), ACH payments and money orders are accepted.

ASAP's Federal Tax I.D. number is 54-115-2815.
ASAP's DUN & BRADSTREET number is 184057818.
DoD Note: ASAP is listed in the Central Contractor Registration.

Registration Fees:                                     (Full fee takes effect on September 12) Emerging Privacy Issues AND/OR National Security Information September 25, 2006 Programs (1/2 Day Programs)   1/2 Day Full Day* Early Bird ASAP Member Registration $125 $225 Early Bird Nonmember Registration $185 $300   Full Fee ASAP Member Registration $175 $275 Full Fee Nonmember Registration $235 $350   *Special Discount for Attendance at Both Meetings (Only applies to SAME Individual) Annual Symposium and Training Conference September 26 & 27, 2006 (2-Day Program, No One Day Registrations Allowed) Early Bird ASAP Member Registration $365   Early Bird Nonmember Registration $395     Full Fee ASAP Member Registration $415   Full Fee Nonmember Registration $455   Fees for September 25th cover coffee breaks and meeting materials. Fees for September 26th and 27th cover coffee breaks, lunch and meeting materials.

ASAP is a nonprofit, professional member association. Employment with the federal or state government does not entitle one to membership in ASAP. Annual dues are $35 per calendar year.

Checks or money orders should be made payable to American Society of Access Professionals. All paperwork and monies should be sent to: The American Society of Access Professionals, ATTN: PROGRAM REGISTRATION, 1444 I (Eye) Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C., 20005-6542.

ASAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable, educational organization, not a government agency. ASAP is incorporated in the District of Columbia.

PROGRAM REGISTRATION CANCELLATION FEE POLICY AND CREDIT CARD CHANGES — Please note that the cancellation policy is strictly enforced.

1. All cancellations must be made in writing to the ASAP office.

2. Cancellations received postmarked on or before August 18 will receive a refund minus a $75.00 (US funds) administrative fee.

3. Cancellations received postmarked after August 18 and on or before September 8 will receive a refund minus a $100.00 (US funds) administrative fee.

4. Cancellations received postmarked after September 8 are non-refundable.

5. In the event the registration fee is to be invoiced, the invoiced amount will reflect the correct applicable cancellation fee.

6. Substitutions are acceptable and should be submitted to the ASAP office in writing, if time allows. (This aids in the production of name badges, attendance certificates, billing, etc. Non-members substituting for members will be charged the nonmember fee.)

7. Organizations, agencies or persons submitting one credit card number for billing and then changing credit cards after billing is complete, will incur a $40.00 "reshelving fee" to help defray the cost involved with the extra transactions.

DRESS CODE — Business or business-casual attire is appropriate for the program. We strongly recommend bringing a sweater or light jacket. Meeting room temperatures vary and can be difficult to control.

RECORDING — ASAP does not secure speaker releases. Therefore, recording of any kind is not permitted.

MISCELLANEOUS — ASAP meetings are non-smoking meetings. Program attendees are requested to turn-off cell phone ringers during the meetings.

ASAP PROGRAM POLICY — Programs are subject to change. While ASAP endeavors to ensure that all its program materials are in accordance with the law and established U.S. Government policies, none of the procedures or policies presented in any ASAP training session or set forth in any ASAP publication should be considered official U.S. Government or U.S. Government Agency policy. Official policy is set forth in the appropriate directives and regulations governing each agency's activities.

FOR MORE INFORMATION — We encourage you to visit www.accesspro.org for answers to your questions or call ASAP at 202-712-9054, ext. 9029, Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Eastern time.

Please visit the ASAP website at www.accesspro.org for registration and current information on the above program. Please note that telephone registration is not accepted.