State Department Employee Sentenced to 12 Months of Probation for Illegally Accessing Passport Application Files

A State Department employee has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 60 confidential passport application files. Brown pleaded guilty on Dec. 11, 2009, to a one-count criminal information charging her with unauthorized...

Eighth Person Pleads Guilty to Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files

An eighth individual has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing numerous confidential passport application files. Susan Holloman, 58, of Washington, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal...

Senator Obama’s Passport Records Breached in January 2008

Two low-level United States Department of State employees have been fired and a third employee disciplined over accessing the passport files of Senator Barack Obama “without a need to do so.”