Privacy Act of 1974; Implementation

What it does

The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), a component within the United States Department of Justice (DOJ or Department), is finalizing without changes its Privacy Act exemption regulations for the system of records titled, Adjudication and Appeal Records of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge and Board of Immigration Appeals, JUSTICE/EOIR-001, which were published as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on August 29, 2025. Specifically, the Department's regulations will exempt the records maintained in JUSTICE/ EOIR-001 from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act. The exemptions are necessary to protect properly classified information and law enforcement sensitive materials maintained in the system. The Department received one anonymous comment in support of this rulemaking in response to the NPRM.

The Justice Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

28 CFR 16

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Justice Department has published 10 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 10 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective March 16, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 28 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register