I want to thank those of you who were present in Charleston to vote for me as your new President. For those who were not present, you missed an outstanding program in a beautiful city. Vicky Childs was able to assist with the South Carolina Association of Licensed Investigators, and about 50 of their members attended our seminar program and Awards Luncheon.

If you were unable to attend, I hope you can put our April 6-8 meeting in Washington, DC or our September 3-6 meeting in Las Vegas on your calendar. Seriously, my sides still ache from some non-stop laughter and good times at this meeting in between and after the business sessions and seminars. Two new members in attendance approached me and told me this is exactly what they were looking for. A productive meeting, some fun, and a chance to network with different people from around the country where they needed to assign work. The NCISS membership directory is public for all to see, but of course there are benefits to meeting face to face.

The 2013-2014 term will not come without change. The Executive Committee has been working on some significant improvements in the way we do business and hold conferences since we met in Chicago in July 2012. I will outline those changes at a later date.

No doubt, the biggest change you will first notice is the retirement of our Legislative Advocate Larry Sabbath at the end of the year. It was great to be able to spend some time with Larry in Charleston and bid him a proper farewell after 20 years of service. We are excited to welcome Paul Kanitra and his staff at Lobbyit as we roll out a new way to lobby and communicate with our Senators and Representatives effective December 1st. After a brief transition period we are also going to roll out a new program I call SLAM. State Legislation Awareness Monitoring. This new program will assist us in becoming even more important to our state association members.

SAAB, or State Association Advisory Board is also being restructured to include the SLAM program. In addition to adding SLAM, I have appointed the three Vice Presidents as SAAB Review and Restructure Co-Chairs. We want to see more state associations represented at our SAAB/SLAM meetings in the future, and they are going to work on ways to get them there. Make no mistake, NCISS will continue to be "Your Voice in Washington, DC", although now the slogan will be "Our Voice in Washington, DC and Across America".   We will continue to lead the way for Private Investigators and Security Professionals when it comes to Federal and State Legislation, just as we have done for 38 years.

Membership is our life blood and I hope you will all take just a moment to think about who you know that would benefit from membership in NCISS. No doubt you can think of more than one friend in your state association who would like to become a part of NCISS history.

Congratulations to all of our newly elected officers and directors. I look forward to a banner year for NCISS and our members.

Sincerely,

Bob Heales

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