§ 1007 Public Employment Revocation Proceedings

• •If the government is trying to take away your job, license, or special permission (like being a cop or a doctor), you can't hide behind privacy rules to keep secrets.
• •This rule applies when the government is checking if you did something wrong that means you shouldn't have that job or license anymore.
• •It doesn’t matter if it’s a small punishment (like a warning) or a big one (like losing your job forever)—the privacy rules don’t apply here.

A police officer gets accused of stealing money from people during traffic stops. The city wants to fire him.

The officer can’t say, 'You can’t use my records or make me talk because of privacy rules.' The city can look at everything to decide if he should lose his job.