Reading Room Document

Exempting the Records of the SEC Fraud Surveillance Team from Reporting Obligations in the Privacy Act

The Securities and Exchange Commission is authorized by 5 U.S.C. § 522a(j)(2) of the Privacy Act to exempt the records of the proposed Fraud Surveillance Team from reporting obligations in 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3) of the Act. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/2012-07-03-sec-fraud-team/download.

July 3, 2012