110 STAT. 3009-697 PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996
or employee of the Department of Justice, or bureau or
agency thereof, may—
"(i) use the information furnished by the appHcant
pursuant to an appHcation filed under this section
for any purpose other than to make a determination
on the application, for enforcement of paragraph (6),
or for the preparation of reports to Congress under
section 404 of the Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986;
"(ii) make any publication whereby the information
furnished by any particular applicant can be identified;
or
"(iii) permit anyone other than the sworn officers
and employees of the Department or bureau or agency
or, with respect to applications filed with a designated
entity, that designated entity, to examine individual
applications.
"(B) REQUIRED DISCLOSURES.—The Attorney General
shall provide the information furnished under this section,
and any other information derived from such furnished
information, to a duly recognized law enforcement entity
in connection with a criminal investigation or prosecution,
when such information is requested in writing by such
entity, or to an official coroner for purposes of affirmatively
identifying a deceased individual (whether or not such
individual is deceased as a result of a crime).
"(C) AUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES.—The Attorney General
may provide, in the Attorney General's discretion, for the
furnishing of information furnished under this section in
the same manner and circumstances as census information
may be disclosed by the Secretary of Commerce under
section 8 of title 13, United States Code.
"(D) CONSTRUCTION.—
"(i) IN GENERAL. —Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to limit the use, or release, for immigration enforcement purposes or law enforcement purposes
of information contained in files or records of the Service pertaining to an application filed under this section,
other than information furnished by an applicant
pursuant to the application, or any other information
derived from the application, that is not available from
any other source.
"(ii) CRIMINAL COI^JTVICTIONS.— Information concerning whether the applicant has at any time been convicted of a crime may be used or released for immigration enforcement or law enforcement purposes.
"(E) CRIME. —Whoever knowingly uses, publishes, or
permits information to be examined in violation of this
paragraph shall be fined not more than $10,000.".
(b) SPECIAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. —Section 210(b)(6) (8
U.S.C. 1160(b)(6)) is amended to read as follows:
"(6) CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION.—
"(A) IN GENERAL.— Except as provided in this paragraph, neither the Attorney General, nor any other official
or employee of the Department of Justice, or bureau or
agency thereof, may—
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