NACRC and affiliate PRIA call national meeting on property records
The National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks (NACRC) and the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) will sponsor a national conference to address growing concerns about personal information privacy issues related to information contained in real property records.
The availability of Social Security numbers and other personal information in military discharge papers or other public records is prompting lawmakers to re-examine open records policies, with special emphasis on recently expanded Internet access to indexes and images of publicly recorded documents.
PRIA believes the real estate industry should take the lead in trying to develop a national consensus with respect to privacy issues raised by the availability of personal information in public records.
The conference will bring consumer advocates and real estate industry representatives together to clarify these issues with respect to real estate records as a basis for the industry is finding practical ways to balance privacy concerns with access to publicly recorded land information.
PRIA plans to invite government leaders at the state and national levels, as well as local officials including land recorders, assessors, and tax collectors and representatives of the major components of the real estate industry.
The conference will be held on Feb. 26 in Washington, D.C. at the Hyatt Grand Hotel, 1000 H Street NW, Washington D.C.
The PRIA Records Access Policy Committee is co-chaired by Carl Ernst of Ernst Publishing and Steve McDonald, Lancaster County (Pa.) Recorder.
For more information, contact Ernst at cernst@covad.net or (460) 563-6479; McDonald at mcdonald@co.lancaster.pa.us or (717) 299-8240; Ardis Schmitt, PRIA executive director, at coordinator@pria.us; or Mark A. Monacelli at monacellim@co.st-louis.mn.us or (218) 726-2675 and (719) 550-9324.
NACIO and NACo’s Advanced Leadership Training team up for another pre-conference seminar
Get ready … Get Set … Roll the cameras! The third NACo-NACIO leadership seminar, scheduled for Feb. 28, in Washington, D.C., will focus on meeting the public and the media in either a formal speech-making setting or for a taped or live interview.
The pre-conference Advanced Leadership Training (ALT) program will bring together county officials and information officers in a roll-up-your-sleeves working session of instruction, group work, role-playing and feedback.
Guiding this day-long seminar will be Professor John Splaine, the highly rated presenter from the first NACo-NACIO seminar in March 2002. A veteran of the Washington media scene and consultant to C-SPAN, Splaine brings a wealth of experience and real-life examples of the good, the ugly, and the hilarious.
NACBHD 2003 Legislative Conference
The National Association of Behavioral Health Directors (NACBHD) 7th Legislative Conference will be held Feb. 26 –28 at the Jurys Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will feature William Moyers, an active, articulate spokesperson for the substance abuse recovery movement, as well as substance abuse parity legislation. He will speak on these subjects and his own experience with substance abuse treatment and recovery.
Also speaking is Sen. Deborah Stabenow (D-Mich.), who will address the conference on her priorities for this coming congressional session. Stabenow is a social worker, former county commissioner and friend to county authorities in Michigan.
There will be congressional updates from NACBHD policy partners, federal agency briefings, and a report from CMS.
The Children’s Behavioral Health Update is back with a larger, improved panel. Bob Egnew, NACBHD’s Government Relations director, will provide an in-depth perspective of NACBHD’s agenda and the priorities for the New Year.
Several sessions are new this year. The Developmental Disabilities Update consists of organizations such as The ARC-US and the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems that have been working tirelessly on behalf of the DD community. A roundtable has been implemented that will provide attendees the opportunity to discuss the most critical issues in detail, ask questions of the experts, and find out what colleagues have experienced.
In addition, Tom Joseph, deputy legislative representative of Los Angeles County and former assistant legislative director at NACo, will facilitate a discussion on the best strategies for influencing federal legislators regarding local/county concerns.
Registration brochures are in the mail. Contact the NACBHD office to receive one at (202) 234-7543 or Lauren@nacbhd.org. Register online at www.nacbhd.org.
