---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000g–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2000g–2"
heading: "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"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2000g-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Community Relations Service"
---

# §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

- (a) The Service shall, whenever possible, in performing its functions, seek and utilize the cooperation of appropriate [State](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=i) or local, public, or private [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1).
- (b) The activities of all officers and [employees](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=f) 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](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=f) of the Service shall engage in the performance of investigative or prosecuting functions of any department or [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) in any litigation arising out of a dispute in which he acted on behalf of the Service. Any officer or other [employee](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=f) of the Service, who shall make public in any manner whatever any information in [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–352, title X, § 1003, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 267.)