§3929b Cooperation with Office of the Inspector General

Summary

The Secretary of State must tell all State Department personnel in writing, within 30 days after December 27, 2021, that if they do not respond within 60 days to a request from the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General for an interview or documents, they could face administrative discipline. That notice must go to the Secretary, employees, contractors, and political appointees, and the Department should consider updating its manuals to say the same. Discipline can include suspension without pay or removal when appropriate. Within 180 days after December 27, 2021, and every quarter after that, the Office of the Inspector General and the United States Agency for Global Media must send an unclassified report to Congress and the Secretary of State. The report must say how many people failed to comply within 60 days in noncriminal matters, when the requests were made, any voluntary time extensions given, and the general subjects involved. More detailed subject information may be put in a classified annex, but everything else must be unclassified.