UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE
UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE
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The Court Security Improvement Act of 2007 enacted the following two provisions in Title
18 of the United States Code
• 18 U.S.C., Section 119
(a) Whoever knowingly makes restricted personal information about a covered
person, or a member of the immediate family of that covered person, publicly
available -
(1) with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a
crime of violence against that covered person, or a member of the immediate
family of that covered person; or
(2) with the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal information
will be used to threaten, intimidate, or facilitate the commission of a crime
of violence against that covered person or a member of the immediate
family of that covered person.
For purposes of this statute, a “covered person” includes the following:
• An individual designated in Section 1114 (Section 1114 includes any
officer or employee of the United States or of any agency in any
branch of the United States Government, including any member of the
uniformed services, while such officer or employee is engaged in or on
account of the performance of official duties, or any person assisting
such an officer or employee in the performance of such duties);
• A grand or petit juror, witness, or other officer in or of, any court of
the United States, or an officer who may be, or was, serving at any
examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate
judge or other committing magistrate;
• An informant or witness in a Federal criminal investigation or
prosecution; or
• A State or local officer or employee whose restricted personal
information is made publicly available because of the participation in,
or assistance provided to, a Federal criminal investigation by that
officer or employee
For purposes of this statute, “restricted personal information” includes the
following:
• With respect to an individual, the Social Security Number, the home
address, home/mobile/fax numbers, personal email address of, and
identifiable to, that individual
– Punishable by a fine, imprisonment for up to 5 years, or both
• 18 U.S.C., Section 1521
– Whoever files, attempts to file, or conspires to file, in any public record or in any
private record which is generally available to the public, any false lien or
encumbrance against the real or personal property of an individual described in
Section 1114 (see above) on account of the performance of official duties by that
individual, knowing or having reason to know that such lien or encumbrance is
false or contains any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or
representation and is punishable by a fine, imprisonment up to 10 years, or both