Congressional Budget Justifications

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) requests $14.4 million for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget Request. The FY 2025 Budget Request, which includes an increase of $15,000 (or 0.1%) over the FY 2024 request of $14.385 million, would allow the PCLOB to continue building upon its significant mission-related and operational accomplishments.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) requests $14.4 million for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Budget Request. The FY 2024 Budget Request, which includes an increase of $2.1 million (or 17%) over the FY 2023 enacted appropriation ($10.6 million appropriation request plus $1.7 million carryover), would allow the PCLOB to continue building upon its significant mission-related and operational accomplishments by increasing the total number of full-time employees and bringing staff salary levels up, both in anticipation of the FY 2024 federal pay raise as well as in an effort to attract and retain talented employees.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (the Board or PCLOB) requests $10.7 million for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Budget Request. The FY 2023 Budget Request, which includes a slight increase of $1.1 million (or 11%) over the FY 2022 request of $9.6 million, would allow the Board to continue building upon its significant mission-related and operational accomplishments of the previous two fiscal years as the agency seeks to fulfill its mission: to ensure that efforts by the executive branch to protect the nation from terrorism appropriately safeguard privacy and civil liberties.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (the Board) requests $9.6 million for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Budget Request. This request would bring the Board closer to its projected full operating budget of $11.5 million.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (the Board) requests $8.5 million for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Budget Request. This request represents a nearly 4 percent increase over the Board’s FY 2020 enacted level and is more than 30 percent below the Board’s projected full operating budget level. 

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board requests $8.5 million for its FY 2020 Budget Request. This represents a $3.5 million increase over the FY 2019 enacted level and will enable the Board, which regained a quorum in October 2018, to continue to fulfill its mission: ensuring that efforts by the executive branch to protect the nation against terrorism appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board requests $5 million for its FY 2019 Budget Request. This Request represents a $3 million decrease from the FY 2018 Request level. Due to projected cost avoidances resulting in lower costs related to personnel and office rent, the PCLOB can continue to operate fully in FY 2019 with a lower base funding level. PCLOB’s significant decrease in its Request from previous years is intended to enable the agency to spend carryover funds generated, in part, from its sub quorum status. The FY 2019 Request will allow the PCLOB to continue to execute its statutory mission: to conduct oversight and provide advice to ensure that efforts taken by the executive branch to protect the nation from terrorism are appropriately balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB” or the “Board”) requests $8 million (and no new positions) for its FY 2018 Budget Request. The PCLOB’s FY 2018 Request will allow the PCLOB to continue fulfilling its mission requirements: to conduct oversight and provide advice to ensure that efforts taken by the executive branch to protect the nation from terrorism are appropriately balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties, while operating as an established agency with a growing infrastructure and increasingly comprehensive operating policies and procedures.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB” or the “Board”) requests $10,081 thousand (and no new positions) for its fiscal year (“FY”) 2017 budget request. This request would sustain the funding level set in the Board’s FY 2016 budget request with no requested increase to resources. The FY 2017 budget will allow the Board to continue its statutory mission: to conduct oversight and provide advice to ensure that efforts taken by the executive branch to protect the nation from terrorism are appropriately balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties.

The PCLOB requests $23.3 million for its fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget request. This request represents an increase of $15.8 million over the Board’s FY 2015 budget. This change between FY 2015 and FY 2016 not only includes an increase of 12 positions, but is due primarily to a one-time increase of $13.2 million for the Board’s required physical move in 2016. The funding requested for the 2016 move is a one-time expense which is required because the building housing the Board’s current office is being torn down, and the Board must move to a new location where it can handle classified information and operate in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).