BACKGROUND SUMMARY
On January 14, 2016, CCI issued a Special Advisory with recommendations for managing kidnapping cases under the new U.S. hostage policies enacted in June of 2015. Two major components of this Advisory were that agencies would have to be proactive in their efforts to have a lead (decision-making) role under these new policies and that a power of attorney executed ahead of time by a hostage may be the only tool that will allow agencies to do so in some cases.
Since the publication of the January Advisory, CCI has received a number of follow-up questions regarding management of hostage cases involving U.S. citizens. This document CCI will provide our best answer or response to the most frequent of these questions.