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2011 FLEOA National Conference |
From 3-5 November, FLEOA held its national conference in Miami, FL. As usual Chapter 9 was well represented as Chapter 9 President Rasheed Tahir, Chapter 9 Executive Vice President Rob Snyder (acting as the Army CID agency proxy), Chapter 9 Vice President of Legislative Affairs Durand Odom, National Vice President of Legislative Affairs Duncan Templeton, State Department OIG Agency President Stan Becton, and Past National President and Emeritus Member Tim Danahey, were all in attendance.
There were multiple changes on the National Executive Board, again with Chapter 9 being heavily involved.
First, we’d like to say thank you to Duncan Templeton. Duncan completed his second term as the National Vice President of Legislative Affairs and chose not to run again. Duncan’s knowledge, dedication and efforts on behalf of FLEOA for legislative affairs affecting our members, will surely be missed. But Duncan will assist the new National Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Frank Terreri, who also brings several years of experience in legislative and labor relations. Duncan will remain heavily involved in Chapter 9 activities, so when you see him, please thank him for his efforts on our behalf.
A new national officer position was created this year, the National Recruitment Director. Our own Rasheed Tahir was elected to take on this new position in order to develop and lead new FLEOA initiatives to recruit new members into our fold and increase our strength in numbers.
As Rasheed was elected to be the new National Recruitment Director, his previous position of National Chapters Director became vacant. Chapter 9’s Rob Snyder was elected to continue the great work that Rasheed set the standard for.
Chapter 9 would like to welcome the three other new national officers who were elected at the 2011 conference: Kurtis Roinestad - National Treasurer, Enid Febus - National Secretary and Christina Honeywell - National Awards Director. Lastly, Chapter 9 would like to thank outgoing national officers James Otten, Maria Coscia and Shannon Mast-McPherson, respectively, for their years of service to FLEOA on the national level.
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| WELCOME TO FLEOA CHAPTER 9 |
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA), Chapter 9 – Washington DC
Chapter 9 is the largest FLEOA chapter in the US, with over 2300 members. FLEOA is the largest nonpartisan, professional association, representing exclusively federal law enforcement officers. FLEOA represents over 26,000 federal agents from over 65 different federal law enforcement agencies. FLEOA is a member of the National Law Enforcement Steering Committee and the Executive Board of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
FLEOA, founded in 1977, is a volunteer organization. Born out of necessity by a group of concerned agents from Customs, IRS-CI, TIGTA, FBI and INS, FLEOA's primary tenant was, and still is, legal assistance and representation are only a phone call away.
FLEOA also provides a legislative voice for the federal law enforcement community. FLEOA works hard for the passage of legislation that benefits federal law enforcement officers. FLEOA's legislative activity has been instrumental in increasing the death benefits for federal law enforcement officers; increasing premium pay for 1811s to 25% of a criminal investigators actual grade; passage of Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) in 1994; extending LEAP for Special Agents of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in 1998; passage of the Degan Bill, which provides scholarships for spouses and children of those killed in the line of duty; passage of the Federal LEO Good Samaritan Act; and passage of the Congressional Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement.
Currently FLEOA's legislative activity is focused on: law enforcement disability legislation; retirees' carry authority; amending the Good Samaritan Act to include criminal liability coverage for law enforcement; the creation of a voluntary sick leave bank; authorization for LEOSA qualified active and retired officers to fly armed; allow retiring federal officers to apply their "max-out" LEAP towards their retirement annuity; and oppose legislation that seeks to misinterpret the ECPA and raise the standard for law enforcement to obtain pen registers.
FLEOA's National Officers are all active duty federal agents. FLEOA business is conducted during off duty hours or in a leave status. The officers volunteer their valuable free time to further the goals of FLEOA and the federal law enforcement community.
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