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STA WARD FORM NO. 64
Office Memorandum
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
PERSONAL - CONFIDENTIAL
RECEIVED
TO
Honorable Donald S. Dawson, Administrative
:
DATE: May 1950
Assistant to the President, The White House
I:JEH:g
MAY 11 1950
FROM Lawson A. Moyer, Executive Director
U. S. Civil Service Commission
JEN
DONALD S. DAWSON
SUBJECT: COMMISSION'S PROCEDURES IN HANDLING REPORTS OF ARRESTS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
FOR SEX OFFENSES
Briefly, the Commission's policy for handling the reports of arrests
employees in the Executive branch of the government for sex offenses is as
follows:
employing ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS TROMAN AND LIBRARY
1. In each case we send a copy of the report of arrest to the
agency.
2. In cases where the Commission has jurisdiction, we take action to
investigate, if necessary, and to decide these cases promptly.
3. In cases where the agencies have jurisdiction, we request the
agency to notify the Commission as to the personnel action taken
in the case.
More specifically with reference to the various lists which the Commission
has received recently, the following action has been taken on each list of
arrests or groups of arrest record reports.
On March 24, 1950, the Commission received from the State Department a list
containing the names of 91 persons indicating that the individuals named had
been separated from the State Department because of alleged sex deviation.
Promptly upon receipt of that list, the Commission checked its service records
to determine the identity of any of those persons then in Federal service as
well as to identify the agency and the position in which employed. That search
of our records revealed that 14 of the 91 persons were employed in the Executive
branch.
Of the 14 shown to be employed, 9 still were within Commission jurisdiction
and 5 were within the jurisdiction of the employing agency. Of the 9 still under
Commission jurisdiction, one has since resigned, letters requesting separation
have been sent to the agencies in the cases of 6 and the 2 remaining are under
investigation. Of the 5 under jurisdiction of the agencies, the Commission has
received information informally that one has resigned. Reports have not been
received from the agencies in the other 4 cases.
The search of our records indicated that no information had been received
by the Commission from the State Department or elsewhere indicating derogatory
information in the cases of any of the 14 persons prior to the Commission's
receipt of the list of 91 names from the State Department. The names of these
91 persons have been flagged in the Commission's Master Index in order that they
may be identified if they seek re-entry into the Federal service. The Commission
has since reminded agencies of its requirement that they report actual reasons for
resignation in instances where employees are permitted to resign while under
investigation or while charges are pending.
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