The inspector general’s office at the Energy Department has said the department is not revoking security clearances and access cards as its own employees and contractor employees leave positions requiring them, the latest of a series of similar findings.
Departmental policy calls for updating a personal identity verification card database to reflect employee separations; recovering and destroying access PIV cards; and in some cases terminating separated employees’ security clearances.
However, in a review of some 2,700 separation the IG found that the database had not been updated for 39 percent, 66 percent of those whose PIV cards were not recorded as destroyed were not retrieved and destroyed, and that deadlines were not met for 30 percent of those subject to having their clearances revoked, with 23 percent retaining their clearances for more than an additional 90 days.
“If clearances and PIV cards are not properly terminated, recovered, and destroyed, former employees may gain unauthorized access to department buildings or information. This risk has been demonstrated by incidents at the department and other federal agencies in which former employees have accessed facilities or systems using unrecovered badges,” the report said.
The IG said that management generally concurred with its recommendations and that it considered the planned actions to be responsive.
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