[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 231 (Friday, December 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72315-72316]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-6739]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[AAG/A Order No. 018-2005]


Privacy Act of 1974; Modification of System of Records

    Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 
552a, notice is given that the Department of Justice proposes to modify 
the Departmentwide system of records entitled, ``Department of Justice 
Regional Data Exchange System (RDEX)'' DOJ-012, previously published in 
full text in the Federal Register on July 11, 2005 (70 FR 39790).
    This system is being modified as follows:
    (1) The Categories Of Individuals Covered By The System And The 
Categories Of Records In The System are being modified to reflect that 
information in RDEX that originated with the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Drug Enforcement 
Administration (DEA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 
will no longer be limited to information from the State of Washington 
field offices of those components. This modification is necessary due 
to the expansion of the RDEX pilot project to include other regional 
sharing initiatives;
    (2) The Purpose Of the System is being modified to reflect that in 
addition to consolidating certain law enforcement information from 
other Department of Justice systems, in some instances RDEX will 
include information from such other systems that has been structured in 
order to facilitate sharing initiatives; and
    (3) The System Managers and Addresses portion of the notice is 
being modified to reflect that requests for information about the RDEX 
system generally should be sent to the FBI rather than the Chief 
Information Officer, Justice Management Division, as it was 
subsequently determined that the FBI would serve as the system and 
security administrator for RDEX.
    The RDEX system is part of the Department's Law Enforcement 
Information Sharing Program (LEISP). The expansion of the RDEX pilot 
program to include other regional sharing initiatives and the 
concomitant modifications to the RDEX system notice to reflect such 
expansion serve to further the LEISP's principal purpose of ensuring 
that Department of Justice criminal law enforcement information is 
available for users at all levels of government so that they can more 
effectively investigate, disrupt, and deter criminal activity, 
including terrorism, and protect the national security.
    The Department is providing a report of this modification to OMB 
and Congress.

    Dated: November 22, 2005.
Paul R. Corts,
Assistant Attorney General for Administration.
DOJ-012

SYSTEM NAME:
    Department of Justice Regional Data Exchange System (RDEX).
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CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:
    Individuals covered by this system include individuals who are 
referred to in potential or actual cases or matters of concern to the 
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the United States Marshals Service 
(USMS), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), 
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation (FBI). Because the system contains audit logs regarding 
queries, individuals who use the system to conduct such queries are 
also covered.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
    The system consists of unclassified criminal law enforcement 
records collected and produced by the BOP, the USMS, the ATF, the DEA, 
and the FBI, including: investigative reports and witness interviews 
from both open and closed cases; criminal event data (e.g., 
characteristics of criminal activities and incidents that identify 
links or patterns); criminal history information (e.g., history of 
arrests, nature and disposition of criminal charges, sentencing, 
confinement, and release); and identifying information about criminal 
offenders (e.g., name, address, date of birth, birthplace, physical 
description). The system also consists of audit logs that contain 
information regarding queries made of the system.
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PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM:
    This system is maintained for the purpose of ensuring that 
Department of

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Justice criminal law enforcement information is available for users at 
all levels of government so that they can more effectively investigate, 
disrupt, and deter criminal activity, including terrorism, and protect 
the national security. RDEX furthers this purpose by consolidating, and 
in some instances structuring, certain law enforcement information from 
other Department of Justice systems in order that it may more readily 
be available for sharing with other law enforcement entities.
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SYSTEM MANAGERS AND ADDRESSES:
[Replace first paragraph with the following:]

    For the RDEX system generally: Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20535.

[Other system managers remain the same.]
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 [FR Doc. E5-6739 Filed 12-1-05; 8:45 am]
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