{"id":5066,"date":"2017-09-21T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:14:10","slug":"department-homeland-security-dhs-office-inspector-general-oig-investigation-i15-fema-wfo-14136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/department-homeland-security-dhs-office-inspector-general-oig-investigation-i15-fema-wfo-14136\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Investigation I15-FEMA-WFO-14136"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General initiated this investigation on a complaint received from \u00a0[[ REDACTED ]] (who alleged he was sent the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for dozens of Federal Agency employees and applicants by the FEMA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Office pursuant to a FOIA request he filed.<\/p>\n<p>Durin r the investigation, it was determined that \u00a0[[ REDACTED ]], Disclosure Unit, FEMA, Washington, DC, sent [[ REDACTED ]] two emails on October 2, 2014, containing un-redacted PII within attachments. When interviewed, [[ REDACTED ]] took responsibility for the improper release of PII, and said it was unintentional. This case was presented for prosecution to the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office, District of Columbia, and was declined due to lack of intent.<\/p>\n<h3>The Investigation<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ig\/2017-IGFO-00120.pdf\">Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Investigation I15-FEMA-WFO-14136<\/a> [27 Pages, 0.9MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ig\/2017-IGFO-00120.pdf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background The Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General initiated this investigation on a complaint received from \u00a0[[ REDACTED ]] (who alleged he was sent the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for dozens of Federal Agency employees and applicants by the FEMA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Office pursuant to a FOIA request he filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-government","8":"category-government-accountability-i-g-reports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2017-09-21_7-13-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}