Reading Room Document

Disclosure of Employee Appraisals to a Member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

In the circumstances presented here, the organic statute of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board requires the Chairman to grant a requesting Board member access to written performance appraisals of Senior Executive Service employees. In these circumstances, the Privacy Act does not bar the disclosure of those appraisals to the requesting Board member. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/2015-05-21-dnfsb-empl-apprais/download.

May 21, 2015