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    Important Note below about Appellant Name Policy

    Note: Effective August 1, 2006, the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB) no longer displays the claimant’s full name in its decisions. The 1996 e-FOIA amendments required agencies to publish adjudicatory decisions on the Internet. To limit a claimant's exposure on the Internet, the Department of Labor (DOL) avoids referring directly to the claimant's name in decisions posted on the DOL web site on or after August 1, 2006. The policy applied prospectively only. Decisions already on the DOL web site and published elsewhere are already in the public domain and have not been changed. The caption of a decision and/or order issued on or after August 1, 2006, display only the claimant's initials and those initials should be used in citations to the decision. The initials used in the caption will be the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. Middle initials, middle names and prefixes or suffixes will not be used in the caption. For opinions affected by this policy, two initials rather than the name will be used for citation purposes. (For example: CC, Docket No. 2006-XXX (issued August 2, 2007).)

    This policy is intended to protect FECA claimants from unnecessary publicity; it is not based upon a legal requirement. Neither FOIA, nor the Privacy Act, nor any other law compels DOL to take this action. Rather, this policy is based on a desire to address in a responsible way concerns raised by some claimants about the ease of access to their case decisions on the Internet. The policy seeks to comply with legal requirements to make agency decisions available on the Internet, but to do so in a way that limits a claimant's exposure to Internet users.