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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has finalized its privacy and disclosure rules in order to preserve the physical well-being of those employees who reasonably believe they are at risk of injury or other harm and, in particular, those employees who are victims, or potential victims, of domestic violence.
Under current policy, requests for telephone numbers and work locations of agency employees may be honored. However, the final amendment will permit the SSA to withhold the work locations and telephone numbers of employees who reasonably believe that they are at risk of injury or other harm by the disclosure of such information.
Comments on the proposed rules expressed concern that members of the public would not be able to obtain a direct telephone number of an administration staff member who was providing assistance. Accordingly, the final version of the rules will allow the SSA to use its discretion when withholding the work locations and/or telephone numbers of employees who are victims or potential victims of domestic violence or when the information is otherwise protected from mandatory disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
The full text of the notice of final rulemaking, including the amended regulation, 20 CFR §402.45, was published in the December 10, 2007, issue of the Federal Register, 72 Fed. Reg. 69616.
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