The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Department of Transportation did not violate truck drivers' privacy when it supplied "non-serious safety violations" to potential employers, the Daily Labor Report writes. The information about the drivers came from the pre-employment screening program of the DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that allows employers to access data on commercial driver applicants' past crashes and inspections for a fee, the report states. The drivers felt that the PSP database was violating their privacy under the Privacy Act by including the non-serious offenses. “Given that the focus of the database is on the motor carrier industry, by providing information on driver safety records to potential employers, it is hard to see how this goal would be undermined by the disclosure of more information,” the court said.
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