About the Office:
As the largest anti-crime task force in the country, the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program is led by the OCDETF Executive Office, which implements the nationwide OCDETF strategy of combining targeting, intelligence sharing, coordination, and directed resourcing to have the greatest impact disrupting and dismantling command and control elements of criminal organizations. The OCDETF Program is the keystone of the Attorney General’s strategy to reduce the availability of illicit narcotics in the United States by using a prosecutor-led, multi-agency approach to counter-drug and counter-transnational-crime enforcement. OCDETF leverages the resources and expertise of its component agencies from the Justice, Homeland Security, Treasury, Postal, and Labor Departments in concentrated, long-term investigations of major drug trafficking, money laundering, and other high priority transnational organized crime networks. OCDETF participating agencies include: the United States Attorneys’ Offices; the Criminal Division; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the U.S. Marshals Service; Homeland Security Investigations; the U.S. Coast Guard; the U.S. Secret Service; the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Labor; and over 700 state and local law enforcement agencies. OCDETF agents and prosecutors throughout the United States handle complex investigations and prosecutions of the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, and other priority transnational criminal organizations responsible for the flood of illegal drugs into the United States and the violence generated by the drug trade, as well as the transnational criminal threat to our national security interests, public safety, and economic stability. By their nature, most, if not all OCDETF investigations and prosecutions involve complex or sensitive investigative and prosecution tools and techniques, such as electronic surveillance, immunized or protected witnesses, subpoenas or search warrants requiring specialized approvals, extradition of fugitives from foreign countries, and production of foreign evidence.
Our office places a high value on diversity of experiences and perspectives and encourages applications from all qualified individuals from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, veterans, LGBT individuals, and persons with disabilities.
Job Description:
The Attorney Advisor is primarily responsible for implementing, directing and administering OCDETF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Privacy Act of 1974 (PA), and Records Management (RM) programs. Duties include performing legal research, developing authoritative guidance and advising leadership on information law and policy matters, as well as ancillary civil and administrative legal issues. Furthermore, duties include the interpretation and application of statutes, case law, regulations, and other authorities and applying these authorities in response to requests for information. Ensuring PA and RM compliance. The Attorney Advisor must review requests for information and evaluate and execute the proper response in light of law, regulation, and policy. Confers and negotiates with the information requester community, as well as officials in the Departments of Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Defense, the Intelligence Community, and other federal, state, local, tribal, and foreign agencies on important legal and policy questions concerning information disclosure. Evaluates effects of pending legislation and proposed changes in existing legislation that may affect the operations of the legal program, with a focus on information disclosure law. Prepares detailed legal briefs that identify policy ramifications of such legislation for leadership. Attends meetings with senior leaders and attorneys from other federal, state, local, tribal, and foreign agencies. During these sessions, provides expert advice on information disclosure legal issues as they relate to the OCDETF Program. Provides authoritative technical legal guidance on complex, controversial, high value, and precedent-setting cases. Personally handles complex legal matters, including all litigation arising under the FOIA and PA, and drafts detailed records schedules and legal affidavits in support of FOIA/PA litigation. Performs other duties as assigned, including providing advice to leadership on other civil and administrative law matters affecting the OCDETF Program.
Application Deadline: Thursday, February 4, 2021
https://www.justice.gov/legal-careers/job/ocdetf-foia-attorney