Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Safeguarding civil rights and civil liberties is elemental to all the work we do at DHS.
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Assessment of CBP Training Materials on Border Searches of Electronic Devices
Assessment of CBP Training Materials on Border Searches of Electronic Devices
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Performance Report Executive Agency Actions to Assist Minority Serving Institutions
DHS Annual Performance Report on Executive Agency Actions to Assist Minority Serving Institutions
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DHS Anti-Harassment Policy
Harassment is prohibited at DHS, and the Department is committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. Harassment includes any unwelcome conduct on the basis of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability (including an individual’s need for workplace reasonable accommodations), protected genetic information, marital status, parental status, political affiliation, or prior protected Equal Employment Opportunity activity, which interferes with an individual’s work performance or creates an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment.
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DHS Interim Management Directive 3090: Equal Employment Opportunity and Sexual Harassment
DHS Interim Management Directive 3090: Equal Employment Opportunity and Sexual Harassment
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DHS IT Policy Archive
Download the DHS IT Policy Archive file: ZIP | Individual Files
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DHS Section 508 Compliance Test Processes
Section 508 compliance test processes from DHS to support their mission to provide strategic direction, technical support, and training to ensure agency employees and customers with disabilities have equal access to information and data.
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DHS Trusted Tester Training Guidance for Users of Assistive Technology and Service-Based Accommodations
This guide provides information on when assistive technologies (AT) can and can’t be used and when human assistance may be needed in order to successfully perform tasks built into the online Trusted Tester training course. The target audience is persons with disabilities who use assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, speech input, or alternative input devices, and/or human assistance to understand where AT use is appropriate and when it may conflict with testing tasks.
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DHS/ALL/PIA-011 State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative
Pursuant to Section 511 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (the “9/11 Commission Act” or “the Act”), Public Law No. 110-53, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office is conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on the Homeland Security State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative (the Initiative). Under the Initiative, DHS will facilitate appropriate, bi-directional information sharing between the Department and State, Local, and Regional Fusion Centers. In addition, the Department will assign trained intelligence analysts to fusion centers, provided those centers meet a number of criteria set forth in the text. The Act requires the Department to complete a concept of operations (CONOPS) for the Initiative, including a PIA. The CONOPS also includes a Civil Liberties Impact Assessment, conducted by the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
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DHS/ALL/PIA 025 Accessibility Compliance Management System (ACMS)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Accessible Systems & Technology (OAST) operates the web-based Accessibility Compliance Management System (ACMS). ACMS is used to bring together a DHS-wide single point of entry and reporting system to track all related activities under Sections 501, 503, 504, and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, to support DHS employees and members of the public with disabilities. ACMS allows all DHS components to document and report compliance and accessibility activities and to consistently track status and progress towards meeting the Section 508 compliance requirements and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) program requirements. ACMS collects, uses, maintains, and disseminates sensitive personally identifiable information (SPII) of individuals seeking reasonable accommodations. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Update is being conducted to describe and assess OAST’s intent to upload medical documentation that substantiates an individual’s request for accommodations.
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DHS/ALL/PIA-026 iComplaints Complaint Enterprise System
The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Program operates the iComplaints Complaint Enterprise System. iComplaints is an electronic records system used to track complaints and supporting documentation relating to individual and class complaints of employment discrimination and retaliation prohibited by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) civil rights statutes. iComplaints will replace EEO Eagle as EEO Eagle is being decommissioned. CRCL EEO has conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because iComplaints collects and stores personally identifiable information (PII).