The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s seventeenth meeting will be hosted by Georgetown University in Gaston Hall at Healy Hall on December 5, 2006, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. This will be the first public meeting of the Board, and it is designed as an expert’s forum in which the Board will solicit comments from non-governmental individuals and organizations with an interest and expertise in privacy and civil liberties issues arising in the context of the government’s actions to protect the nation from terrorism. The Board has also invited privacy and civil liberties officers from a number of federal departments and agencies, including the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Terrorist Screening Center, to attend.