Federal
Legislation
Bruce H. Hulme, CFE is
a past president and member of the boards of the National
Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS) and the
Associated Licensed Detectives of New York State (ALDONYS). He
presently serves as chair of, or liaison to, several
professional association legislative committees representing
licensed private investigators, security professionals and
certified fraud examiners. He is a member of the executive board
as legislative liaison of the New York Chapter of Certified
Fraud Examiners, and has lectured extensively at seminars
presented by the profession’s leading associations. Since 2004,
he has been legislative director of NCISS.
Hulme assisted in drafting a provision of the federal Drivers’
Privacy Protection Act of 1994, with respect to obtaining access
for licensed private investigators and security firms. He
testified before the Federal Trade Commission on behalf of the
private investigation industry’s position on consumer
information privacy. His participation helped create the record
that formed the basis of the FTC’s analysis of computer database
services. He has also testified before Congressional committee
hearings including the House Committee on Banking and Financial
Services on Identity Theft and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Implementation and the House Committee on Ways and Means with
respect to privacy issues and the Social Security Number.
He is president and founder of Special Investigations, Inc., New
York City. In 1964, he was granted a license by examination as a
private investigator in New York. In 1994, on the basis of his
prior experience in conducting over 400 fraud investigations,
the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Board of Regents
awarded him the designation of Certified Fraud Examiner. He has
served as court appointed defense investigator for the indigent
in capital cases in the United States District Courts for the
Southern District of New York and Connecticut.
In 2000, he was appointed by former Governor George E. Pataki to
serve as a member of the New York State Security Guard Advisory
Council, a board on which he still serves. He is co-editor and a
major articles contributor of the ALDONYS Spotlight, the
publication of the Associated Licensed Detectives of New York
State. He is an associate editor of Professional Investigator
Magazine. He authored the first chapter of Corporate
Investigations entitled the “Corporate Investigations and the
Fair Credit Reporting Act” published by Lawyers and Judges
Publishing Company in 2000 and 2002. Hulme presently serves as
the sole non-voting board member of the International
Association of Security and Investigative Regulators
representing private investigators. He also serves on an
advisory board of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Hulme’s knowledge of privacy issues and long-standing
involvement in government affairs in Albany, New York and
Washington, DC concerning the investigative and security
industries has brought him many invitations to speak before
professional associations. He has made presentations before the
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Los Angeles,
California and New York, New York; the New York Trial Lawyers
section of the New York State Bar Association in the U.S Virgin
Islands; the Association of Government Accountants in Brooklyn,
New York; the International Association of Security and
Investigative Regulators in Nova Scotia, Canada, Columbus, Ohio,
and San Antonio, Texas; the American Lithuanian Bar Association,
Elon University and Lithuanian Bar Association in Vilnius,
Lithuania; Intellenet in Arundel, England, Calgary, Canada, San
Antonio, Texas; and Sorrento, Italy, ASIS International
regarding post 9/11 security issues in Washington, DC; and state
professional investigation and security associations in Arizona,
California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia,
Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia.
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