The Legal Affairs Department is the powerhouse of our organization and will include licensed paralegals and attorneys. New, pending and existing pertinent legislation is tracked by this department.

Members in this department help us to research legislation and catalog it for future action. Once tagged for action, our Advisory Board, Communications and Legal Affairs work together to formulate sensible, workable solution-oriented proposals to present to legislators for bills that we either propose, collaborate on, or oppose. These efforts are world-wide.

Legal Affairs also does the following:

• Maintains a database of legislators in each American state and federal government who are on departments that deal with the penal code/public safety, and respectively for our member nations,
• Oversees and interacts with our lobbyists in the American states, federal government and other nations, and
• Produces seminars and self-study kits on how a bill becomes law, criminal law procedure, legal research and other topics.

Legal Affairs will develop a network of attorneys and paralegals willing to provide pro-bono services to members in their area. In addition, Legal Affairs will arrange to have a group prepaid legal service that is available to dues-paying members. We anticipate filing a class-action lawsuit in the next 3 years through this department.

If you have paralegal, research, organizational, and/or data entry skills please consider joining this department. Our members and Directors will assist you in any way necessary to complete tasks.

Contact Jim to get more information, or just join our Forum.