Treasury Federal Program Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Tip Records (Privacy Act Exemption)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-10-15 — Privacy Act of 1974; Implementation: cross-connection with eoir-fraud-abuse-prevention-records: Both are agency-specific (k)(2) Privacy Act exemptions carving fraud-tip or fraud-investigation records out of individual access and correction rights. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-10-06 — Privacy Act Exemptions: Treasury issued a final rule exempting its new Federal Program Waste, Fraud, and Abuse tip records system from Privacy Act access, amendment, and accounting provisions by treating the files as law-enforcement investigatory records, meaning individuals named in submitted tips cannot see or correct what the database holds about them. (novelty: 2)