---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 17.42"
title: "28"
number: "17.42"
heading: "Positions requiring financial disclosure."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/17.42"
---

# §17.42. Positions requiring financial disclosure.

- (a) The Assistant Attorney General for Administration, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, shall designate each employee, by position or category where possible, who has a regular need for access to any of the categories of classified information described in [section 1.3(a)](/cfr/28/1.3.md?p=a) of Executive Order 12968.
- (b) An employee may not hold a position designated as requiring a regular need for access to categories of classified information described in [section 1.3(a)](/cfr/28/1.3.md?p=a) of Executive Order 12968 unless, as a condition of access to such information, the employee files with the Department Security Officer:
  - (1) A financial disclosure form developed pursuant to [section 1.3(c)](/cfr/28/1.3.md?p=c) of Executive Order 12968 as part of all background investigations or reinvestigations;
  - (2) The same financial disclosure form, if selected by the Department Security Officer on a random basis; and
  - (3) **Relevant information concerning foreign travel, as determined by the Department Security Officer.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Order No. 2091-97, 62 FR 36984, July 10, 1997, as amended by Order No. 2865-2007, 72 FR 10069, Mar. 7, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 501, 509, 510, 515-519; 5 U.S.C. 301; E.O. 12958, 60 FR 19825, 3 CFR, 1995 Comp., p. 333; E.O. 12968, 60 FR 40245, 3 CFR, 1995 Comp., p. 391; 32 CFR part 2001.

### Source

Source: Order No. 2091-97, 62 FR 36984, July 10, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Order No. 2091-97, 62 FR 36984, July 10, 1997, as amended by Order No. 2865-2007, 72 FR 10069, Mar. 7, 2007]