---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1681f"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1681f"
heading: "Disclosures to governmental agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1681f"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Consumer Credit Protection"
  - "Subchapter III — Credit Reporting Agencies"
---

# §1681f. Disclosures to governmental agencies


Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 1681b of this title](/usc/15/1681b.md), a [consumer reporting agency](/usc/15/1681a.md?p=f) may furnish identifying information respecting any [consumer](/usc/15/1681a.md?p=c), limited to his name, address, former addresses, places of employment, or former places of employment, to a governmental agency.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–321, title VI, § 608, as added Pub. L. 91–508, title VI, § 601, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1131.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of one hundred and eighty days following Oct. 26, 1970, see section 504(d) of Pub. L. 90–321, as added by Pub. L. 91–508, set out as a note under section 1681 of this title.