WIFLE Leadership Training Conference 2011
WIFLE Foundation, Inc. is preparing for the 2011 Annual Leadership Training Conference at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Long Beach, California. Conference dates are Tuesday, June 21 through Thursday, June 23, 2011, with exciting pre-conference training sessions planned for Monday, June 20. The Julie Y. Cross Annual Golf Tournament to benefit the WIFLE Scholarship Fund will also be held June 20 at Sea Cliff Country Club – just ¼ mile from the ocean in nearby Huntington Beach. To play this course is truly one of Southern California’s most beautiful golfing experience. Come join WIFLE in June. For information on the conference and the Julie Y. Cross Golf Tournament, please see the WIFLE website at www.wifle.org.
WIFLE Leadership Institute
By Margaret Moore, President, WIFLE Foundation
WIFLE will kick off the “WIFLE Leadership Institute” at the 12th Annual
Leadership Training Conference with a special four-hour block of
training targeting those in the SES ranks, GS-15 managers, and GS-14
supervisors/managers seeking training at the executive level.
To be eligible, the attendee must be at the GS-14 or GS-15 level for
SES. The seminar is open to 50 registrants who indicate their interest
during the registration process and formally register for the training
through the WIFLE web site. The actual training will be held at the AVIA
Hotel, two blocks from the conference host hotel, the Hyatt Regency.
The purpose of the training is to continually enhance the awareness
level of the government leader that there are responsibilities,
opportunities, and challenges that are associated with their position.
To be prepared to lead, to become a change agent, to accomplish the
agency’s mission are certainly what is expected of each leader.
This seminar seeks to go further in challenging the inner self to
accomplish a greater good that effectively helps all women, since women
are the most underrepresented group in law enforcement. It will
demonstrate that women in leadership pushing for other women can
actually increase the chances for real change. The efficacies of the
mission and in turn the delivery of services to a society are better
served when women examine the inequities, build consensus, and stand up
for change.
This seminar is not for women only and open to all meeting the
requirements mentioned above.
Shared Leadership Authority - A Silent Coup?
By June Werdlow Rogers
What’s a woman to do? Extremes abound. Women leaders are criticized as
too conciliatory or too demanding; too timid or too forceful, and so on.
Neither end of the spectrum is favorable. On the “easy” end, the label
sucker awaits. Too demanding, you’ll be viewed as – well, you’re called
something like Witch. So then, what’s the answer when you seem to be
darned if you do and darned if you don’t?
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by Saundra Harman
Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP)
The Office
of Personnel Management (OPM)
has announced that there will be an Open Season for
the Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP).
The Open Season will run from April 4, 2011 through
June 24, 2011. Active employees and their spouses
(including same sex domestic partners of civilian
workforce members) who are not currently enrolled
will be able to apply for the
FLTCIP using the abbreviated
underwriting application (short form). Annuitants
and other qualified relatives can never use the
abbreviated underwriting; they are eligible to apply
for the FLTCIP
at any time using the full underwriting application.
Active employees and their spouses are also eligible
to apply for the FLTCIP
outside of the Open Season utilizing the full
underwriting application.
Federal Employees’ Group
Life Insurance (FEGLI)
There are
rare Open Seasons to enroll in the Federal
Employees’ Group Life Insurance (FEGLI).
Those that have been in the past have occurred due
to programmatic changes or underwriting changes.
Therefore, OPM
has announced regulations that make FEGLI coverage
more flexible.
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A Lesson on Liability
By now,
most of you are aware of the ill-guided attempts by
subjects, criminal defendants, members of the
public, special interest groups, and sometimes even
politically motivated officials against federal law
enforcement officers. And if you read the last WIFLE
newsletter, you are also aware of the impact false
allegations, public scrutiny and super-charged
environments can have on your career. Our attempt
here is to briefly explain some of the concepts
related to civil suits against federal agents and
officers. Civil suits are typically referred to as
Biven's
Actions, Constitutional Torts, or Personal Capacity
Lawsuits. All federal employees can be sued
personally by private persons or other entities for
alleged violations of an individual's constitutional
and common law rights. These types of suits are more
likely, however, to be brought against law
enforcement officers given their respective law
enforcement responsibilities and powers. These law
suits usually involve a claim of an alleged
violation under the 4th amendment claiming an
unlawful search or seizure - commonly referred to as
a Biven's
action - or some other constitutional tort (1st, 5th
or 8th Amendment violations) arising out of an
enforcement action.
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Broadcast Message to WIFLE Members
Marist offers concentrations in Ethical
Leadership, Public Management, and Healthcare
Administration as part of the online MPA
Online Graduate Study in Public Administration
Careers in law enforcement and criminal justice are rewarding and demanding. In addition to constantly learning new investigative techniques, technology, and policies to be effective on the job today, women in the field must also consider long-term career planning. Whether this is strategizing for promotions or establishing a “back up plan” in the event of injury or illness, obtaining a graduate degree in Public Administration (MPA) can help to differentiate you from the competition and provide valuable management and leadership skills. Starting in the fall of 2011, Marist College will offer three concentrations as part of the MPA degree. Each three-course concentration can be completed 100% and allow MPA students the opportunity to specialize in a particular area of interest – Public Management, Ethical Leadership, or Health Care Administration.
URL
link:
www.marist.edu/admission/graduate/partnerships
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THE PRIVACY ACT – Your right to Access and
Amendment.
By Peter J. Jeffrey, Esq., Member and Director of Litigation, Mahoney &
Jeffrey, PLLC
When making decisions regarding your employment – be it your continued
suitability, access to classified information, or merit promotion
eligibility – your employing agency typically reviews information about
you maintained in “Privacy Act” system of records (e.g., Official
Personnel Folders (OPFs), Employee Performance File (EPF), Adverse
Action Files, or Personnel Security Clearance Files). (See generally,
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Transmittal No. 22
(Apr. 2010), General Records Schedule (GRS) 1 at ¶¶ 1, 21, 23 and 30(b);
and GRS 18 at ¶ 22(a)). The accuracy of that information is essential to
your continued employment, career advancement, and benefit entitlements.
Fortunately, the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 522a, provides you with
a means by which to seek access to and amendment of those records. See 5
U.S.C. § 522a(d)(1) & (2).
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FBI's Law Enforcement National Data Exchange in Its
Final Stage
by FEDagent.com
On Feb. 1, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began its third and
final stage of the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange, or N-DEx, a
national information-sharing system available at a secure website for
law enforcement and criminal justice agencies.
Specifically, the system provides a place where law enforcement officers
can submit certain data to a central source where it is compared against
data already on file from local, state, tribal and federal agencies.
This comparison can identify links and similarities among individuals,
places, objects and activities across law enforcement. The data is
stored at the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in
West Virginia.
In 2008, the FBI began the first phase of N-DEx, which provided
participating agencies the most basic capabilities. They were able to
create link analysis charts and search several thousand incident/case
report records and arrest data. One benefit was from this phase was
being able to determine a person's true identity.
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News
and Notes
• Sick Leave allowed so employees can care for flu-stricken
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20101203/BENEFITS05/12030301/1044/BENEFITS05
• For the first time, the Office of Personnel Management is extending
new benefits to the unmarried domestic partners of straight federal
employees, as it has done previously for gay employees' partners.
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100620/BENEFITS05/6200304/1044/BENEFITS05
• In response to high call volume, the Office of Personnel Management
has established a new Tax Hotline that retirees can call to change the
federal tax withholding on their monthly annuity payments. The Tax
Hotline number is 800-307-8298.