{"data":{"id":"us/28-cfr-44.304","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"28 CFR 44.304","heading":"Special Counsel acting on own initiative.","body":"(a) The Special Counsel may, on the Special Counsel's own initiative, conduct investigations respecting unfair immigration-related employment practices when there is reason to believe that a person or other entity has engaged or is engaging in such practices, and shall notify a respondent by certified mail of the commencement of the investigation.\n(b) The Special Counsel may file a complaint with OCAHO when there is reasonable cause to believe that an unfair immigration-related employment practice has occurred no more than 180 days prior to the date on which the Special Counsel opened an investigation of that practice.","path":["Title 28—Judicial Administration","CHAPTER I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","PART 44—UNFAIR IMMIGRATION-RELATED EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-28.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:14Z","sha256":"558f4f6b88c84b1bb5484ef88701ea71a901ee16b1a93160994043aaf53fae4d","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/28-cfr-44.303","next":"us/28-cfr-44.305"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}