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PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD

2019 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

The most significant factor affecting
the Board’s ability to logistically
achieve its mission in FY 2020 has
been the 2019 Coronavirus (“COVID-
19”) pandemic; the Board’s staff
performs its duties in a Sensitive
Compartmented Information Facility
(“SCIF”) for work on classified
oversight projects. However, the
Board’s Information Technology staff
worked diligently to implement its
Continuity of Operations Plan enable Board Members and staff to
(“COOP”) during the quarantine use the agency’s SCIF for work on
period, enabling Board Members and classified oversight projects,
staff to quickly adapt to difficult and permitting only a limited number of
evolving circumstances resulting Board Members and staff wearing
from the pandemic. As state and local personal protective equipment
jurisdictions in the Washington, D.C. (“PPE”) to be in the SCIF at any given
area moved through the reopening time. Currently, the Board is well-
process, the Board implemented a positioned to continue pursuing its
rigorous health protocol, following vigorous oversight and advice
the Center for Disease Control and agenda, despite these challenging
Prevention (“CDC”) guidelines, to times.

The PCLOB continues to utilize the objectives and strategies defined in the 2019-2022
Strategic Plan to guide mission work and operational support and to achieve the agency’s
five strategic goals. The Board measures agency performance through accomplishments
recognized in its various advice, oversight, and other mission activities, as reported in
PCLOB’s semi-annual reports and annual Congressional Budget Justifications, available on
the agency’s website at www.pclob.gov.

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