FederalDaily - May 10, 2007
TSA Offers Credit Services in Wake of Security Breach
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) May 7 announced a package of credit monitoring services
for employees affected by the loss of a TSA computer hard drive that contained the personal information
of 100,000 current and former employees. In addition to a year of free credit monitoring and fraud
alerts, employees can sign up for $25,000 worth of identity theft insurance and consult with identity
restoration specialists who can assist those who become victims of identity theft. Current and former
employees can register via the TSA Web site. In the meantime, TSA said it is no closer to locating
the computer hard drive that contained Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for
individuals employed by the agency from January 2002 until August 2005. It remains unclear, even after
extensive interviews with TSA employees, whether the external hard drive is just misplaced but still
within headquarters, or whether it was stolen. “Measures are in place to alert TSA if someone
attempts to use the hard drive,” the agency said in a statement. “To date, there is still
no evidence to indicate employee data have been compromised.” To see more, go to: www.tsa.gov
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USPS Cancels Proposed Maryland Consolidation Effort
The United States Postal Service (USPS) canceled plans to consolidate some mail-processing operations
for the Western Maryland facilities in Frederick and Cumberland. USPS had conducted an Area Mail Processing
(AMP) study to look at shifting Cumberland mail-sorting operations 90 miles away to Frederick. The
American Postal Workers Union (APWU), which had opposed the consolidation, was notified May 4. The
Cumberland study was one of about 50 AMP studies announced as part of a USPS consolidation effort.
Last year, APWU sponsored radio and television commercials spotlighting the negative effect of USPS
realignment plans. To see more, go to: www.apwu.org/news/webart/2007/webart-0736-consol-cumberland-070507.htm
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Rockefeller, Lott Introduce Aviation Modernization Bill
Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V. and Trent Lott, R-Miss., on May 3 introduced the bipartisan Aviation
Investment and Modernization Act, which would modernize the nation’s air traffic control system
and reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to a release from Rockefeller’s
office, the bill also would restore collective bargaining rights to FAA employees—reinstating
rights that have been lost over the last several years, and bring back “balance and fairness
to the FAA’s labor negotiations process.” To see more, go to: http://rockefeller.senate.gov/news/2007/pr050307.html
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