Hmm...
Well, as for how to access it, have you tried checking through the DAO objects, perhaps? I've never tried, but if there is a DAO object there, you can reference its properties that way.
If you cannot find it that way, then perhaps you can have 2 different front-end templates. 1 with the item(s) hidden, and 1 with the item(s) not hidden.
Then you simply hand them out according to which they should receive, based on their usertype... either via a list you keep, or a "main" database that associates the username with the usertype..
"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57