SYSTEM NAME:

Job Corps Student Pay, Allotment and Management Information System (SPAMIS).

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

None.

SYSTEM LOCATION:

Job Corps Data Center (JCDC), 1627 Woodland Avenue, Austin, Texas 78741 (and Job Corps Centers).

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:

Job Corps students and Job Corps terminees.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

Personal information about the student: Pre-enrollment status, number of months enrolled in school, home address, family status and income; characteristics, such as age, race/ethnic group, sex; summarization of basic education and vocational training received in Job Corps; and initial Placement status (entry into employment, school, military service, or other status) after separation from the Program.

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

Subtitle C of Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 29 U.S.C. 2882 et seq.; Subtitle C of Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U.S.C. 3191 et seq.

PURPOSE(S):

These records are maintained to pay students and track student academic and vocational outcomes and achievements. This information is used for reporting center/contractor performance that includes enrollment information, performance outcomes while enrolled and placement information after separation.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

These records and information in these records may be used when relevant, necessary and appropriate:

a. To disclose photographs and student identities to the news media for the purpose of promoting the merits of the program.

b. To disclose information of a student's academic and vocational achievement and general biographical information, to placement and welfare agencies, respective employers, school or training institutions to assist in the employment of a student.

Categories of users:

a. Job Corps Center staff and operators/contractors;

b. Outreach, Admissions and Placement staff and contractors;

c. Support Contractors;

d. Federal staff at the regional and national levels.

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES:

None.

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

 

STORAGE:

Files are stored electronically and/or on paper.

RETRIEVABILITY:

Files are retrieved by social Security number or name and center enrolled.

SAFEGUARDS:

Access by authorized personnel only. Computer security safeguards are used for electronically stored data and locked locations for paper files.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

Records are retained for at least three (3) but no more than four (4) years after termination. After this, the records are retired to the Regional Federal Records Center where they are kept 75 years in accordance with Records Schedule NC-369-76-2.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

National Director, Office of Job Corps U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Inquiries should be mailed to the System Manager.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

A request for access should be mailed to the System Manager.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

A petition for amendment should be mailed to the System Manager.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Job Corps students, Outreach, Admissions and Placement Contractors; Support Contractors, and Job Corps Centers.

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ACT:

None.