DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ISSUES PROPOSED RULE: PRIVACY ACT OF 1974; IMPLEMENTATION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Department Of Justice has issued a proposed rule called: Privacy Act of 1974; Implementation.

The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on Oct. 15 by Laurence E. Rothenberg, Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, United States Department of Justice.

Summary: In the Notice section of today's Federal Register, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), a component within the United States Department of Justice (DOJ or Department), has published a notice of a new system of records, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Statistical Data, JUSTICE/OJP-017, for the statistical data collections that BJS conducts under 34 U.S.C. 10132. In this notice of proposed rulemaking, the OJP proposes to exempt this system of...