The Department of Homeland Security issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking exempting a portion of as newly established system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. The new Federal Register notice states that the,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS), including the National Operations Center (NOC), proposes to establish a new DHS system of records titled, Operations Collection, Planning, Coordination, Reporting, Analysis, and Fusion System of Records. ‘‘DHS/OPS—003’’ This system of records will allow DHS/OPS, including the NOC, to collect, plan, coordinate, report, analyze, and fuse information related to all-threats and all-hazards, law enforcement activities, intelligence activities, man-made disasters and acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other information collected or received from Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial agencies and organizations; foreign governments and international organizations; domestic security and emergency management officials; and private sector entities or individuals into the Department.
The NPRM also states that the “exemptions proposed here are standard law enforcement and national security exemptions exercised by a large number of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.”
Attached below are DHS’ NPRM and notice of the new system of records.
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