Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of Special Investigations The Office of Special Investigatis Sources of Information, GA investigative community. Whe2-27 promised to update it periodica.. responses have helped us make more useful locator of new mec information for investigators This guide again contains so We once more request your you discover new sources useful, please write t Investigations, US Gene 1000, Washington D Our common goal is u that you find this gu Вилеск Richard C. Stiener of Information This guide is divided into four general categories: business, finance, people, and property. Under each category appear various sources, such as "city tax collector" and "county court clerk." Because a source may provide more than one type of information, it may appear under more than one category heading. In addition to the four general categories is a chapter on electronic data bases. This chapter provides information about the four general categories. Generally, the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. section 552a (1988), prohibits federal agencies from disclosing a record from a “systems of records" from which information may be retrieved by name of an individual or by a number, symbol, or other individual identifier. However, federal agencies may disclose a record to another agency or governmental instrumentality for a lawful civil or criminal law enforcement activity. To receive a record, the head of the requesting agency must request the record in writing from the agency that maintains the record, specifying the portion of the record desired and the law enforcement activity for which the record is sought. The head of an agency may delegate this "authority to request records" to appropriate agency officials. The Privacy Act imposes criminal penalties on agency employees who wrongfully disclose protected information and on any person who wrongfully requests or obtains protected information under false pretenses. (5 U.S.C. section 552a(i) (1988)). |