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For Immediate Release
October 14, 2009
Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff
www.attorneygeneral.utah.gov
Utahýs AG Mark Shurtleff kicks off identity theft campaign in Cache Valley
LOGAN, Utah--Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will be visiting USU Oct. 22 from 4-7 p.m. to increase awareness of identity theft as he continues a statewide tour. People are invited to come and talk with him face-to-face. Shurtleff is offering a free shredding service, intended to inform people how to help protect them from identity theft. Students and faculty at USU, along with parents and community members are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity.
Shurtleff will bring a giant document shredder for students and the community to shred identifying documents for free. Each person can bring up to eight legal boxes of paper documents for Shurtleff and his staff to shred. The shredding services will begin at 4 p.m. and continue through 7 p.m.; at 6 p.m. in USU's Sunburst Lounge, located on the second floor of the TSC, Shurtleff will speak on other ways to protect people from identity theft, and ways to report or recover from ID theft.
The mission of the Attorney General's office is to "Protect the interests of Utah, its people, environment and resources," along with making "every effort to educate the public about safety, justice, liberty, and equal opportunity."
The event will feature identity theft experts and showcase the latest improvement to the award-winning Identity Theft Reporting Information System (IRIS), a website operated by the Attorney General's Office. Shurtleff will be promoting the government website www.idtheft.utah.gov, which provides people with online fraud reporting and data breach alerts.
For further information contact:
Preston Parker
661-772-7537
preston.parker@usu.edu
@prestonpparker
For Immediate Release
October 14, 2009
Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff
www.attorneygeneral.utah.gov
PR students attempt to make Shurtleff's visit to Logan a success
LOGAN, Utah--Public Relations students at Utah State University have taken on the opportunity to publicize Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's second visit to USU, after people felt they did not know about the first visit on Sept. 29. The lack of participation of the public on the first visit drew the attention of PR professor Preston Parker as a great case study for his writing classes.
The communications director for Shurtleff, Paul Murphy, had a conversation with Parker in open Facebook discussions and private messages, which ultimately resulted in the Attorney General's office inviting the PR students to handle the scheduling, promotion, and public relations activities of the return visit to USU scheduled for Oct. 22 from 4-7 p.m.
Parker presented the opportunity to his classes and they accepted. "I think they recognize this as a great opportunity to take on a real-world project in PR, something they would not get at most other educational institutions. I tell them all the time, they are prepared to do what we practice in the classroom and they are just as good, if not better, than professionals in the public relations field," Parker said, speaking of his students. "Now, they have an opportunity to demonstrate it."
The USU PR students are in charge of all aspects of the event plan. They will gain experience in advertising and working with different media outlets, as well as planning and accommodating the Attorney General and his staff, attending students, members of the community, and small businesses that may want to attend.
At the event, there will be demonstrations by identity theft experts and a presentation of the Identity Theft Reporting Information System (IRIS), a website operated by the Attorney General's Office. Shurtleff will be promoting the government website www.idtheft.utah.gov, which provides people with online fraud reporting and data breach alerts.
For further information contact:
Preston Parker
661-772-7537
preston.parker@usu.edu
@prestonpparker
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