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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2000g-2. Cooperation with other agencies; conciliation assistance in confidence and without publicity; information as confidential; restriction on performance of investigative or prosecuting functions; violations and penalties
(a) The Service shall, whenever possible, in performing its
functions, seek and utilize the cooperation of appropriate State or
local, public, or private agencies.
(b) The activities of all officers and employees of the Service
in providing conciliation assistance shall be conducted in
confidence and without publicity, and the Service shall hold
confidential any information acquired in the regular performance of
its duties upon the understanding that it would be so held. No
officer or employee of the Service shall engage in the performance
of investigative or prosecuting functions of any department or
agency in any litigation arising out of a dispute in which he acted
on behalf of the Service. Any officer or other employee of the
Service, who shall make public in any manner whatever any
information in violation of this subsection, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year.
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