5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor
Restrict the CRCL Officer to EEO and headquarters investigations
Printed page 165 5. Department of Homeland Security
“The CRCL Officer should focus on equal employment opportunity (EEO) compliance and the civil liberties function and investigate matters only within Headquarters or support components. Operational components' civil liberties officers should investigate incidents regarding their own agencies.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. No directive narrows the CRCL Officer's remit to equal employment opportunity compliance and headquarters or support-component investigations, and no delegation pushes incident investigation down to operational components' own civil liberties officers. CRCL's departmentwide complaint intake is still running: DHS put the CRCL Complaint and Privacy Waiver Form (OMB control 1601-0035) forward for renewed OMB clearance on 2026-07-22, with no narrowing of scope.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Not started, on the one negative search we ran for the asks on CRCL, the Privacy Office and the two ombudsmen. The information-collection notice is the only Primary trace CRCL’s complaint program leaves in the Federal Register, and it is unqualified: the form is the departmentwide intake, not a headquarters-only one.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- CRCL Officer investigative scope
- ID
- 439