Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§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

Title 42 › CHAPTER 21 — CIVIL RIGHTS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE › § 2000g–2

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Service must try, when possible, to work with suitable State, local, public, or private agencies while carrying out its duties. All Service officers and employees must keep conciliation help private and not make it public. They must keep information private when it was given with that expectation. They may not act as investigators or prosecutors in court cases that come from disputes where they represented the Service. Anyone who discloses such information can be charged with a misdemeanor and, if convicted, fined up to $1,000 or jailed up to one year.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §2000g–2

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(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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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 2000g–2

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102