29 U.S.C. § 569 — Security detail
submitted 113 years ago by Pub. L. 119-75 to r/title-29-LABOR · 332 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of Labor may hire officers or agents to protect the Secretary, family members, and certain senior officials from specified threats. Those personnel may receive firearm, arrest, intelligence, coordination, and investigative powers subject to Attorney General and Secretary guidelines.
(a) General rule. The Secretary of Labor may hire law-enforcement officers or special agents to (1) protect the Secretary during the workday and activities before or after official duties; (2) incidentally protect an immediate-family member taking part in an event related to the Secretary’s official duties; (3) continuously protect the Secretary, including at other times, and the immediate family when there is a unique and articulable threat of physical harm, under the Secretary’s guidelines; and (4) protect the Deputy Secretary or another senior officer representing the Secretary at a public event when there is such a threat, under those guidelines.
(b) Powers. For those duties, the Secretary may authorize an officer or agent to (1) carry firearms; (2) arrest without a warrant for a United States offense committed in the officer’s or agent’s presence; (3) do protective-intelligence work, including identifying and reducing possible threats and checking sites and events in advance; (4) coordinate with local law enforcement; and (5) begin criminal and other investigations of possible threats to the Secretary, coordinating with the Department’s Inspector General.
(c) Guidelines. Officers and agents must use every authority under this section consistently with Attorney General guidelines and the Secretary’s guidelines.
The Secretary of Labor is authorized to employ law enforcement officers or special agents to—
provide protection for the Secretary of Labor during the workday of the Secretary and during any activity that is preliminary or postliminary to the performance of official duties by the Secretary;
provide protection, incidental to the protection provided to the Secretary, to a member of the immediate family of the Secretary who is participating in an activity or event relating to the official duties of the Secretary;
provide continuous protection to the Secretary (including during periods not described in paragraph (1)) and to the members of the immediate family of the Secretary if there is a unique and articulable threat of physical harm, in accordance with guidelines established by the Secretary; and
provide protection to the Deputy Secretary of Labor or another senior officer representing the Secretary of Labor at a public event if there is a unique and articulable threat of physical harm, in accordance with guidelines established by the Secretary.
The Secretary of Labor may authorize a law enforcement officer or special agent employed under subsection (a), for the purpose of performing the duties authorized under subsection (a), to—
carry firearms;
make arrests without a warrant for any offense against the United States committed in the presence of such officer or special agent;
perform protective intelligence work, including identifying and mitigating potential threats and conducting advance work to review security matters relating to sites and events;
coordinate with local law enforcement agencies; and
initiate criminal and other investigations into potential threats to the security of the Secretary, in coordination with the Inspector General of the Department of Labor.
A law enforcement officer or special agent employed under subsection (a) shall exercise any authority provided under this section in accordance with any—
guidelines issued by the Attorney General; and
guidelines prescribed by the Secretary of Labor.
Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 12, as added Pub. L. 119–75, div. B, title I, § 113(a), Feb. 3, 2026, 140 Stat. 255.)
- 1913Enacted · Pub. L. 119-75 · 140 Stat. 255
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