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Vice President Appoints Quincy Rodgers as Executive Director of the Domestic Council Committee on the Right of Privacy [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 12 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 26, 1975
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Vice President Rockefeller announced today the appointment of
Quincy Rodgers, 33, as Executive Director of the Domestic Council
Committee on the Right of Privacy. The Vice President is Chairman
of that Committee.
Mr. Rodgers is currently Minority Counsel to the Subcommittee on
Separation of Powers of the Senate Judiciary Committee, having been
appointed to that position by Senator Charles McC. Mathias (R-Md.)
in May, 1973.
Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, Mr. Rodgers was raised in Bethesda,
Maryland and presently resides in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated
from Yale College in 1964 with Honors in History and received a
Bachelor of Law degree from Yale Law School in 1967. He is a member
of the Bars of the State of New York and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Rodgers succeeds Philip Buchen, who left the position in
August, 1974, when he was named Counsel to the President.
Douglas W. Metz, who served in the interim as Acting Executive
Director of the Privacy Committee, was recently appointed Assistant
Director for Government Operations of the Economic Policy Board.
The Domestic Council Privacy Committee was established in early
1974 and is the arm of the Administration responsible for developing
and coordinating agency views, policy recommendations, and specific
legislative and administrative initiatives that affect the way
information about individual Americans is collected, recorded, used,
and disseminated.
Policies and practices affecting the gathering and dissemination of
personal information can have major social and economic consequences
for the future of American society, the Vice President stated.
After its establishment, the Committee worked successfully with the
Congress and key Executive agencies to assure enactment of the
Privacy Act of 1974, which deals with the personal information
handling practices of the Federal government.
In the months ahead, the Committee will continue to press for
cooperation and action on a broad range of projects, including
needed legislation on criminal justice information systems and tax
and financial records. The Committee also looks forward to
developing appropriate cooperative relationships with the new
Privacy Protection Study Commission created by the 1974 Act, as
well as with other groups that have shared or overlapping concerns,
including the many Federal and State government and private sector
groups working in the area.
Mr. Rodgers will assume his duties within the next few weeks.
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