{"id":10682,"date":"2017-12-11T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10682"},"modified":"2018-01-31T02:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T02:38:50","slug":"obtain-documents-pertaining-to-you-in-accordance-with-the-privacy-act-of-1974","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10682","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Act of 1974 &#8211; obtain records &#8220;that pertain to you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0<a class=\"doj-analytics-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/USCODE-2012-title5\/pdf\/USCODE-2012-title5-partI-chap5-subchapII-sec552a.pdf\">Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. \u00a7 552a<\/a>, establishes a code of fair information practices that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of information about individuals that is maintained in systems of records by federal agencies.\u00a0 A system of records is a group of records under the control of an agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifier assigned to the individual.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Privacy Act requires that agencies give the public notice of their systems of records by publication in the Federal Register.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opcl\/doj-systems-records\">Click here to see a list of DOJ systems of records and their Federal Register citations<\/a>.\u00a0 The Privacy Act prohibits the disclosure of a record about an individual from a system of records absent the written consent of the individual, unless the disclosure is pursuant to one of twelve statutory exceptions.\u00a0 The Act also provides individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amendment of their records, and sets forth various agency record-keeping requirements. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. \u00a7 552a, establishes a code of fair information practices that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of information about individuals that is maintained in systems of records by federal agencies.\u00a0 A system of records is a group of records under the control of an agency from which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Privacy Act of 1974 &#8211; obtain records &#8220;that pertain to you&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10640,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10682\/revisions\/12712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}