5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor
Review the effectiveness of DHS Directive 0810.1
Printed page 166 5. Department of Homeland Security
“The Secretary should conduct a thorough review of the effectiveness of Directive 0810.1, which is widely interpreted as requiring a wholesale referral of cases to OIG.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found, and the search is now an enumeration rather than a query. DHS's complete public sitemap was walked on 2026-09-03 — `dhs.gov/sitemap.xml` and all 14 child sitemaps, **6,801 unique URLs** — and grepped for "0810" and for "directive": **there is no page for Directive 0810.1 anywhere on dhs.gov.** The 27 directive-related URLs are all other directives (023-01 CATEX, 046-01 FOIA, 047-01 privacy, 110-01 social media, 140-06, 262-01, 3090, 3100.1, 40102 §508, records 055-01, and the component directive libraries for FPS, NPPD, TSA, CRCL and S&T). The department's press-release search, which does honor its query string, returns "No results" for `0810`, `Directive 0810` and `0810.1`. So there is no review, amendment or replacement of the directive on the department's public record — and the directive's own current text is not published either, so its effectiveness could not be reviewed against anything public. **How far this reaches:** DHS's published record and the Federal Register. It does **not** reach DHS's internal directives system, which is not public, and management directives of this kind are frequently unpublished, so absence from the public site is weak evidence about the directive's status.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
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.
- DHS’s publications-library search silently discards its query string — any negative taken from it is unreliable in both directions (measured 2026-09-03). https://www.dhs.gov/publications-library?combine=0810 and the same search for a nonsense string, “zzqqxnonsense”, both redirect to https://www.dhs.gov/publications and return the identical 298-byte redirect body; the landing page they end on is the generic 145 KB publications index, the same for every query. Our earlier “no publication rows” negative came from that behavior and was never a measurement. It is the known failure of a site that strips query strings and answers every search with the same plausible page.
- The press-release search, by contrast, does work, verified by a control test: searching DHS press releases for “0810” returns 129,495 bytes and for “zzqqxnonsense” 126,396 bytes — different responses to different queries — and both render “No results”. https://www.dhs.gov/search?keys=0810.1 draws its results in the browser and could not be searched.
- The site was readable; only its search was not. Access was not the obstacle: the search is useless but the site is readable and was listed end to end. The document simply is not published. That is a better negative than the earlier one, and it is still a negative — a person with a browser would find the same 6,801 URLs.
- Related to #440, which asks for the referral practice the directive is read to require to be made universal; that item is also unmoved, and the same negative applies to any ask turning on the text of 0810.1.
- For the neighboring #446: the sitemap does contain https://www.dhs.gov/publication/crcl-directives-and-delegations, a CRCL directives page we have not opened.
- Action
- other
- Object
- DHS Management Directive 0810.1
- ID
- 447