Department of Justice February 21, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons (Bureau or BOP), is exempting a Privacy Act system of records from the following subsections of the Privacy Act: (c)(3) and (4), (d)(1)-(4), (e)(2) and (3), (e)(5), and (g). This system of records is the ``Inmate Electronic Message Record System, (JUSTICE/BOP-013).'' The exemptions are necessary to preclude the compromise of institution security, to better ensure the safety of inmates, Bureau personnel and the public, to better protect third party privacy, to protect law enforcement and investigatory information, and/or to otherwise ensure the effective performance of the Bureau's law enforcement functions.