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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "42 U.S.C. § 2000ee–1"
+description: "Privacy and civil liberties officers"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 42
+title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
+chapter_number: "21E"
+chapter_name: "PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES PROTECTION AND OVERSIGHT"
+section: "2000ee–1"
+citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000ee–1"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+---
+
+# 42 U.S.C. § 2000ee–1 - Privacy and civil liberties officers
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Designation and functions The Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Security Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the head of any other department, agency, or element of the executive branch designated by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board under section 2000ee of this title to be appropriate for coverage under this section shall designate not less than 1 senior officer to serve as the principal advisor to—
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+(1) assist the head of such department, agency, or element and other officials of such department, agency, or element in appropriately considering privacy and civil liberties concerns when such officials are proposing, developing, or implementing laws, regulations, policies, procedures, or guidelines related to efforts to protect the Nation against terrorism;
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+(2) periodically investigate and review department, agency, or element actions, policies, procedures, guidelines, and related laws and their implementation to ensure that such department, agency, or element is adequately considering privacy and civil liberties in its actions;
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+(3) ensure that such department, agency, or element has adequate procedures to receive, investigate, respond to, and redress complaints from individuals who allege such department, agency, or element has violated their privacy or civil liberties; and
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+(4) in providing advice on proposals to retain or enhance a particular governmental power the officer shall consider whether such department, agency, or element has established—
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+(A) that the need for the power is balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties;
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+(B) that there is adequate supervision of the use by such department, agency, or element of the power to ensure protection of privacy and civil liberties; and
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+(C) that there are adequate guidelines and oversight to properly confine its use.
+
+(b) Exception to designation authority (1) Privacy officers In any department, agency, or element referred to in subsection (a) or designated by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which has a statutorily created privacy officer, such officer shall perform the functions specified in subsection (a) with respect to privacy.
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+(2) Civil liberties officers In any department, agency, or element referred to in subsection (a) or designated by the Board, which has a statutorily created civil liberties officer, such officer shall perform the functions specified in subsection (a) with respect to civil liberties.
+
+(c) Supervision and coordination Each privacy officer or civil liberties officer described in subsection (a) or (b) shall—
+
+(1) report directly to the head of the department, agency, or element concerned; and
+
+(2) coordinate their activities with the Inspector General of such department, agency, or element to avoid duplication of effort.
+
+(d) Agency cooperation The head of each department, agency, or element shall ensure that each privacy officer and civil liberties officer—
+
+(1) has the information, material, and resources necessary to fulfill the functions of such officer;
+
+(2) is advised of proposed policy changes;
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+(3) is consulted by decision makers; and
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+(4) is given access to material and personnel the officer determines to be necessary to carry out the functions of such officer.
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+(e) Reprisal for making complaint No action constituting a reprisal, or threat of reprisal, for making a complaint or for disclosing information to a privacy officer or civil liberties officer described in subsection (a) or (b), or to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, that indicates a possible violation of privacy protections or civil liberties in the administration of the programs and operations of the Federal Government relating to efforts to protect the Nation from terrorism shall be taken by any Federal employee in a position to take such action, unless the complaint was made or the information was disclosed with the knowledge that it was false or with willful disregard for its truth or falsity.
+
+(f) Periodic reports (1) In general The privacy officers and civil liberties officers of each department, agency, or element referred to or described in subsection (a) or (b) shall periodically, but not less than annually, submit a report on the activities of such officers—
+
+(A) (i) to the appropriate committees of Congress, including the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives;
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+(ii) to the head of such department, agency, or element; and
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+(iii) to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; and
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+(B) which shall be in unclassified form to the greatest extent possible, with a classified annex where necessary.
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+(2) Contents Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include information on the discharge of each of the functions of the officer concerned, including—
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+(A) information on the number and types of reviews undertaken;
+
+(B) the type of advice provided and the response given to such advice;
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+(C) the number and nature of the complaints received by the department, agency, or element concerned for alleged violations; and
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+(D) a summary of the disposition of such complaints, the reviews and inquiries conducted, and the impact of the activities of such officer.
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+(g) Informing the public Each privacy officer and civil liberties officer shall—
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+(1) make the reports of such officer, including reports to Congress, available to the public to the greatest extent that is consistent with the protection of classified information and applicable law; and
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+(2) otherwise inform the public of the activities of such officer, as appropriate and in a manner consistent with the protection of classified information and applicable law.
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+(h) Savings clause Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or otherwise supplant any other authorities or responsibilities provided by law to privacy officers or civil liberties officers.
+
+(Pub. L. 108–458, title I, § 1062, Dec. 17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3688; Pub. L. 110–53, title VIII, § 803(a), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 360; Pub. L. 113–126, title III, § 329(b)(4), July 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 1406; Pub. L. 115–118, title I, § 109, Jan. 19, 2018, 132 Stat. 15; Pub. L. 117–263, div. F, title LXVIII, § 6811(d), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3601.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments2022—Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “annually” for “semiannually” in introductory provisions. 2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–118 inserted “, the Director of the National Security Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” after “the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency” in introductory provisions. 2014—Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 113–126 substituted “semiannually” for “quarterly” in introductory provisions. 2007—Pub. L. 110–53 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text of section read as follows: “It is the sense of Congress that each executive department or agency with law enforcement or antiterrorism functions should designate a privacy and civil liberties officer.”
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+Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
+
+Change of Name Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019. Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Accountability of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.

legal/us/code/title-42/chapter-21e/section-2000ee-3.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "42 U.S.C. § 2000ee–3"
+description: "Federal agency data mining reporting"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 42
+title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
+chapter_number: "21E"
+chapter_name: "PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES PROTECTION AND OVERSIGHT"
+section: "2000ee–3"
+citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000ee–3"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc42@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s2000ee–3"
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+---
+
+# 42 U.S.C. § 2000ee–3 - Federal agency data mining reporting
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Short title This section may be cited as the “Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007”.
+
+(b) Definitions In this section:
+
+(1) Data mining The term “data mining” means a program involving pattern-based queries, searches, or other analyses of 1 or more electronic databases, where—
+
+(A) a department or agency of the Federal Government, or a non-Federal entity acting on behalf of the Federal Government, is conducting the queries, searches, or other analyses to discover or locate a predictive pattern or anomaly indicative of terrorist or criminal activity on the part of any individual or individuals;
+
+(B) the queries, searches, or other analyses are not subject-based and do not use personal identifiers of a specific individual, or inputs associated with a specific individual or group of individuals, to retrieve information from the database or databases; and
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+(C) the purpose of the queries, searches, or other analyses is not solely—
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+(i) the detection of fraud, waste, or abuse in a Government agency or program; or
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+(ii) the security of a Government computer system.
+
+(2) Database The term “database” does not include telephone directories, news reporting, information publicly available to any member of the public without payment of a fee, or databases of judicial and administrative opinions or other legal research sources.
+
+(c) Reports on data mining activities by Federal agencies (1) Requirement for report The head of each department or agency of the Federal Government that is engaged in any activity to use or develop data mining shall submit a report to Congress on all such activities of the department or agency under the jurisdiction of that official. The report shall be produced in coordination with the privacy officer of that department or agency, if applicable, and shall be made available to the public, except for an annex described in subparagraph (C).11 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (3)”.
+
+(2) Content of report Each report submitted under subparagraph (A) 22 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (1)”. shall include, for each activity to use or develop data mining, the following information:
+
+(A) A thorough description of the data mining activity, its goals, and, where appropriate, the target dates for the deployment of the data mining activity.
+
+(B) A thorough description of the data mining technology that is being used or will be used, including the basis for determining whether a particular pattern or anomaly is indicative of terrorist or criminal activity.
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+(C) A thorough description of the data sources that are being or will be used.
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+(D) An assessment of the efficacy or likely efficacy of the data mining activity in providing accurate information consistent with and valuable to the stated goals and plans for the use or development of the data mining activity.
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+(E) An assessment of the impact or likely impact of the implementation of the data mining activity on the privacy and civil liberties of individuals, including a thorough description of the actions that are being taken or will be taken with regard to the property, privacy, or other rights or privileges of any individual or individuals as a result of the implementation of the data mining activity.
+
+(F) A list and analysis of the laws and regulations that govern the information being or to be collected, reviewed, gathered, analyzed, or used in conjunction with the data mining activity, to the extent applicable in the context of the data mining activity.
+
+(G) A thorough discussion of the policies, procedures, and guidelines that are in place or that are to be developed and applied in the use of such data mining activity in order to—
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+(i) protect the privacy and due process rights of individuals, such as redress procedures; and
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+(ii) ensure that only accurate and complete information is collected, reviewed, gathered, analyzed, or used, and guard against any harmful consequences of potential inaccuracies.
+
+(3) Annex (A) In general A report under subparagraph (A) 2 shall include in an annex any necessary—
+
+(i) classified information;
+
+(ii) law enforcement sensitive information;
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+(iii) proprietary business information; or
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+(iv) trade secrets (as that term is defined in section 1839 of title 18).
+
+(B) Availability Any annex described in clause (i)— 33 So in original. Probably should be “subparagraph (A)—”.
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+(i) shall be available, as appropriate, and consistent with the National Security Act of 1947 [50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.], to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and
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+(ii) shall not be made available to the public.
+
+(4) Time for report Each report required under subparagraph (A) 2 shall be—
+
+(A) submitted not later than 180 days after August 3, 2007; and
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+(B) updated not less frequently than annually thereafter, to include any activity to use or develop data mining engaged in after the date of the prior report submitted under subparagraph (A).2
+
+(Pub. L. 110–53, title VIII, § 804, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 362.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+References in TextThe National Security Act of 1947, referred to in subsec. (c)(3)(B)(i), is act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 61 Stat. 495, which was formerly classified principally to chapter 15 (§ 401 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to editorial reclassification in Title 50, and is now classified principally to chapter 44 (§ 3001 et seq.) of Title 50. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.