The Publication Library contains guidance and policy papers, reports, strategies, program regulations, guidelines, brochures and more.
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DHS-ALL-049 Performance and Learning Management System (PALMS)
DHS-ALL-049 Performance and Learning Management System (PALMS)
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Enterprise Citizenship and Immigrations Services Centralized Operational Repository (eCISCOR)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) uses the Enterprise Citizenship and Immigrations Services Centralized Operation Repository (eCISCOR) to streamline access to relevant information necessary to administrate the Immigration and Nationality Act. eCISCOR is a repository that consolidates information collected during the adjudication of applications and petitions for immigration benefits. USCIS updated and reissued this privacy impact assessment (PIA) to clarify eCISCOR’s functionalities, and to discuss all source systems and interconnected systems to eCISCOR. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) uses the Enterprise Citizenship and Immigration Services Centralized Operational Repository (eCISCOR) to streamline access to relevant data necessary to administer the Immigration and Nationality Act and to accomplish mission support-related tasks. Historically, eCISCOR has been used as a data repository that primarily consolidates data collected during the adjudication of applications and petitions for immigration benefits. In 2015, USCIS issued DHS/USCIS/PIA-023(a) eCISCOR to update eCISCOR’s functionalities and add appendices to include all source and interconnected systems.
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FEMA FOIA Logs
These logs contain Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) incoming Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
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OPS FOIA Logs
This log contains incoming Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Office of Operations Coordination (OPS).
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DHS Security Authorization Templates
This page contains templates that are used in the Security Authorization process for the Department of Homeland Security's sensitive systems.
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DHS-FEMA-PIA-034(a) Electronic Fingerprint System
DHS-FEMA-PIA-034(a) Electronic Fingerprint System
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Privacy Compliance Review for the Analytical Framework for Intelligence
The DHS Privacy Office and CBP issued a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and System of Records Notice (SORN) for AFI in 2012. Due to the sensitive nature of the AFI system, including its search and aggregation capabilities, AFI was developed in coordination with the DHS Privacy Office to minimize privacy risks. These privacy risks are identified and discussed in the 2012 AFI PIA. The DHS Privacy Office also required that AFI undergo a Privacy Compliance Review (PCR) within 12 months of the system’s operational deployment. The objective of this PCR is to assess compliance with the existing compliance documentation published by AFI and ensure the privacy protections in the PIA are followed. This is the first PCR on the AFI system. Between August 2013 and May 2014, the DHS Privacy Office Oversight Team assessed these privacy protections.
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Executive Summary to Report from the USSS Protective Mission Panel
The paramount mission of the United States Secret Service-protecting the President and other high-ranking national officials-allows no tolerance for error. A single miscue, or even a split-second delay, could have disastrous consequences for the Nation and the world. The men and women of the Secret Service fulfill one of the most important obligations in this country, and they do so often with no personal recognition, no desire for fame, and modest compensation. We know special agents of the United States Secret Service as the silent figures around the President, but we tend to notice them only in the extraordinarily rare moments when they fail. Most Americans know little of the work of the Secret Service's Uniformed Division and do not realize that it is the Uniformed Division that plays a primary role in the protection of the White House.
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DHS/USCIS/PIA-013 Fraud Detection and National Security Data System (FDNS-DS)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) created the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) to strengthen the integrity of the nation’s immigration system, and to ensure that immigration benefits are not granted to individuals that may pose a threat to national security and/or public safety. In addition, FDNS is responsible for detecting, deterring, and combating immigration benefit fraud. USCIS is updating and reissuing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), originally published on July 30, 2012 as DHS/USCIS/PIA-013(a), to include FDNS’s sharing with law enforcement agencies, and include the DHS/USCIS/ICE/CBP-001-Alien File, Index and National File Tracking System of Records, published November 21, 3013 at 78 FR 69864 as coverage for initiatives under this PIA.
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DHS-ALL-PIA-048 Foreign Access Management System
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Under Secretary for Management (USM), Office of the Chief Security Officer (OCSO), Center for International Safety and Security (CISS) manages the Foreign Access Management (FAM) program that vets foreign nationals,foreign entities, and certain United States Persons (USPER) that seek access to DHS personnel, information, facilities, programs, or systems. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) update reflects the end of the Foreign Access Management Enterprise (FAME) Pilot program and the end of the agreement between OCSO/CISS and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC).