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Membership Criteria

Under Federal Law certain information considered "Sensitive" or "Confidential" can only be disseminated to those sworn/certified members of Criminal Justice Agencies. We pride ourselves on establishing the Associate Membership category as we believe that to fully address the gang issue you must bring all stakeholders to the table.

Thus the ability to bring educators and counselors to the table to work together with law enforcement in developing an overall gang control strategy.

However, for those criminal justice professionals who are concerned about sensitive information you will be relieved to know that the FGIA utilizes secured servers to send out sensitive information to the FGIA Regular Members . The Members Only side of the website is also covered by numerous layers of security.

The FGIA established the Security Department in 2005, which is operated by the Director of Security.

The Security Department oversees the Membership Database, Members Only Side of the website and the security of all FGIA Events.

The Association shall have four classes of membership, Regular, Associate, Honorary and Lifetime.

Regular, Associate and Lifetime Members shall have equal voting rights, interests and privileges.

Honorary members shall have no voting rights.

Honorary and Associate members shall not be entitled to hold office, but shall enjoy other privileges.

No member of any class shall have any interest or property right in the assets of the Association and no member shall hold more than one membership in the Association.

All member classes are required to adhere to the regulations as set forth in the by-laws.

Regular Member: Regular Membership shall be any full-time employee or retired employee (who was an active member at the time of retirement) from the following categories:

• Law Enforcement Officers
• Probation/Parole
• Corrections Officers
• Juvenile Justice Professionals (Detention, Residential, Law Enforcement, Probation)
• Prosecuting Attorneys
• Judges/Judicial Assistants
• Criminal Analysts/Evidence Technicians for a Law Enforcement Agency
• School Security Officers

 

Associate Member: Any individual who exhibits an interest in preventing gang activity, whose talents and interests can be of benefit to the FGIA, can apply for an Associate Membership. Associate Members are voting members and are required to adhere to the regulations of Regular Members as set forth in the by-laws.

• Teachers
• Principles
• Vice Principles
• Deans
• Counselors
• Social Workers

Honorary Member: Any individual who has assisted in the betterment of the Association, and with the approval of the Board of Directors can become an Honorary Member. Honorary Members are non-voting members and are required to adhere to the regulations as set forth in the by-laws.

Lifetime Member: Lifetime Memberships shall be conferred upon all past FGIA Board of Directors to include the President, Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Sergeant at Arms, Regional Directors and each department appointed Directors.

Lifetime Members are voting members and are required to adhere to the regulations of Regular Members as set forth in the by-laws.