---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 44.304"
title: "28"
number: "44.304"
heading: "Special Counsel acting on own initiative."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/44.304"
---

# §44.304. Special Counsel acting on own initiative.

- (a) The Special Counsel may, on the Special Counsel's own initiative, conduct investigations respecting unfair immigration-related employment practices when there is reason to believe that a person or other entity has engaged or is engaging in such practices, and shall notify a respondent by certified mail of the commencement of the investigation.
- (b) The Special Counsel may file a complaint with OCAHO when there is reasonable cause to believe that an unfair immigration-related employment practice has occurred no more than 180 days prior to the date on which the Special Counsel opened an investigation of that practice.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1103(a)(1), (g), 1324b.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 91789, Dec. 19, 2016, unless otherwise noted.