Reading Room Document

Contractor Access to Information from Interstate Identification Index

The Office of Personnel Management and other agencies have authority to disclose criminal history records information to private contractors performing background investigations of government employees or prospective employees. OPM and other agencies also have authority to permit those contractors to have controlled on-line access to criminal history records of individuals subject to background investigations through the Interstate Identification Index system. 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/file/19986/download.

August 15, 1996