Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007

The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 instructed the heads of the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Treasury, Department of Health and Human Services, and State Department, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to designate no less than one senior officer to serve as a privacy and civil liberties officer.

The Act grants the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board authority to require any other agency or element of the executive branch to establish a privacy and civil liberties officer. Further, this law specifies that if covered agencies have another statutorily designated privacy officer, this officer must also undertake the responsibilities described in the Act.