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Plans for a DOJ Privacy Officer

The House Judiciary Committee recently passed a Justice Department reauthorization bill that includes language for the establishment of a new statutory privacy officer. If the bill becomes law the Department of Justice would become the second federal agency to require a statory privacy officer. There are other privacy officers serving in the federal government, but only one, Nuala O'Connor Kelly, with the Department of Homeland Security is required by federal law.

Justice Could Get New Privacy Boss, Federal Computer Week, March 4, 2004