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Washington, D.C. - Attorney General Janet Reno, John Koskinen, Chair, President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion and Stephen R. Colgate, Assistant Attorney General for Administration and Chief Information Officer for the Justice Department, will participate in a Y2K demonstration of the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system.

Attorney General Reno will also report on the overall readiness of the Department's 217 mission critical systems to meet law enforcement challenges of the impending Year 2000.

WHO: Attorney General Janet Reno

John Koskinen, Chair, President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion

Stephen R. Colgate, Assistant Attorney General for Administration

and Chief Information Officer

David R. Loesch, Assistant Director in Charge,

Criminal Justice Information Services Division, FBI

WHAT: Y2K Demonstration of NCIC System & Report on Department-wide

Y2K Readiness

WHEN: 11:15 a.m., Thursday, November 4, 1999

(Room will be available for set-up at 9:30 a.m.)

(Reporters are encouraged to arrive by 11:00 a.m. at the latest

to facilitate processing through the FBI Escort Desk)

WHERE: Federal Bureau of Investigation - HITEC Center

J. Edgar Hoover Building

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

NOTE: The demonstration is open to federally-credentialed reporters only and is open to cameras. Because the demonstration will be held in the FBI's HITEC Center, all news media will be required to get badges before being escorted to the center. Names of any news media, camera or other personnel attending the demonstration must be forwarded to Paul Bresson or Dave Miller of the FBI Press Office at 324-3691 by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 3, 1999, so badges will be ready for all attendees.

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