FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 25, 2007

Contact:

Susan Pitcher

Executive Assistant

Wackenhut Services, Inc.

(561) 472-3619

spitcher@wsihq.com

WACKENHUT SERVICES INC. ENDORSES PLAN TO

CREATE FEDERAL CONTRACTS DATABASE

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – Wackenhut Services, Incorporated (WSI) President and CEO David Foley today expressed support for legislation authored by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY-14) and Edolphus Towns (D-NY-10) to create a comprehensive database to monitor the federal procurement system.

“It’s a good idea to establish a central location for storing information on the performance of Federal contractors as long as this information is absolutely correct,” Foley said.

The bill calls for a database consisting of information regarding civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings initiated or concluded by the Federal Government and State Governments against Federal contractors. It would include data on: Federal contracts that were terminated due to default, Federal suspensions and debarments, suspension and debarment show cause orders, and all administrative agreements.

“In over 40 years of serving the U.S. government at its most sensitive facilities, WSI has never had a contract terminated for cause or default, we’ve never been suspended or debarred, and never been involved in an administrative agreement,” Foley said. “We’re proud of our long record of outstanding service to the government.

“We welcome any objective review of our work,” he added. “We’re confident that any objective evaluation of WSI’s performance will reflect that the more than 8,000 hard-working men and women of WSI perform superbly in protecting our Nation.”

Recently, WSI Senior Vice President Dr. Lawrence Brede traveled to Washington D.C. to set the record straight regarding allegations that WSI is a poor performing contractor.

Brede testified before a House subcommittee that, “We have consistently received high performance ratings. In addition, we’ve won numerous awards for our work.” He said this success has come in the face of ongoing efforts by one of the nation’s largest labor unions to destroy WSI.

“For more than three years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been involved in a ‘corporate campaign’ designed to ruin our company’s reputation,” Brede said. “They continue to make misleading and false statements about our record because we have refused to give in to SEIU demands to waive the right of our employees to choose the union they want to represent them.”

The SEIU is trying to increase its membership through “corporate campaign” tactics and harassment of target companies’ customers. Their latest tactic is to try to engage Members of Congress in their agenda.

The unprincipled reputation of the union and its officials includes:

• SEIU was recently forced to abandon multiple Kaiser Permanente units across the Southern California area after use of coercive union organizing methods, according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
• SEIU filed a lawsuit, post 9/11, to try and overturn the law requiring federal baggage screeners at airports to be U.S. citizens.
• SEIU officials have been indicted or convicted of embezzlement of union funds.
• A former SEIU Local 99 president has been charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy and 17 counts of embezzling union funds as a result of an investigation into former Los Angeles City Councilman Martin Ludlow.
• A New York Sun business reporter said, “SEIU now seems to depend more on corporate intimidation rather than recruiting.
• The director of strategic research for the AFSCME union said, “UDW-AFSCME home-care workers across the state were tricked and coerced into signing membership cards with (SEIU) Local 434B.

Foley said WSI believes in the complete and accurate reporting of Federal contractor performance and, therefore, fully supports Reps. Maloney and Towns efforts to legislate the creation of a federal contracts database.

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WSI is the United State’s government’s largest contractor for professional security services, with 8,000+ employees protecting key sites in the U.S. and abroad.  For additional information about WSI and this issue, please visit www.wsihq.com