Originally Posted by
PoliceStateSurvivor
What steps can we, the common people, take to have these laws enforced?
The DHS IG body-slammed the entire DHS in a report last year for flagrant and recurring disregard for the Privacy Act. I suggest you contact the DHS IG's office every time you are a victim of Privacy Act-protected information theft by a TSA employee. Make sure you get name & badge number and cite which part(s) of the Act you believe the individual broke.
DHS IG Hotline
The TSA does have a Privacy Office and a Statutory (meaning Congress directed the DHS to have one who reports to Congress directly). They have a web page devoted to privacy and their privacy policy. Note that they only did this after the TSA idiot lost all the personnel information on thousands of TSA employees. So, their privacy practices don't have anything to do with us -- it's all about them.
Note this letter:
Action Memo -- June 2007. Towards the bottom is a person's name, email address, and office phone number in the DHS Privacy Office. Drop her a line with your concerns and see how far you get!