A.I.D. 23 – Employees Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint Investigative Records

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Systems of Records Notice

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A.I.D.--23

System name: Employees Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint Investigative Records.

Security classification: Confidential.

System location: Files are maintained in the Office of Equal Opportunity, Agency for International Development, 320 21st Street NW, Washington, DC.

Retired Files, Washington National Records Center, 4205 Suitland Road, Suitland, Maryland.

Categories of individuals covered by the system: Employees of A.I.D. who have filed a discrimination complaint.

Categories of records in the system: Employee's name, hearing transcripts, depositions, witness statements, salary, grade, supervisor's evaluation, biographic data.

Authority for maintenance of the system: Executive Order 11478 of Aug. 8, 1969; and Federal Personnel Manual Chapter 713.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories of users and the purposes of such uses:

To the Civil Service Commission for the purposes of compiling statistics on employees.

To law enforcement agencies, U.S. Government agencies, courts, the Department of State, foreign governments and international agencies, and Members of Congress, for the purposes set forth in the Statement of General Routine Uses immediately preceding these specific notices of systems of records.

Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system:

Storage: Paper copy in file folders.

Retrievability: By name of individual.

Safeguards: Located in metal file cabinets with three-way combination lock in secured premises with access limited to those whose official duties require access.

Retention and disposal: Records are retained for three years after the closing of a case and are then retired to the Washington National Records Center for 10 years after termination of employee or 20 years after last entry in file.

System manager(s) and address: Director, Equal Opportunity Programs at the location shown in System Location Section above.

Systems exempted from certain provisions of the act: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a (k)(5), all investigatory material in the record which meets the criteria of 5 U.S.C. 552a (k)(5) is exempted from the notice, access, and contest requirements of Sections (c)(3), (d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (H) and (I) and (f) of 5 U.S.C. 552a in order to fulfill commitments made to protect the confidentiality of sources. See Agency Regulations published in this issue of the Federal Register.