Inspector General Access Act of 2025

The bill changes section 413 of title 5 of the United States Code, which governs how the Department of Justice Inspector General can investigate DOJ employees. Right now, the law carves out some allegations involving DOJ personnel and keeps them from the Inspector General’s office, sending them instead to other internal DOJ offices. This bill strikes the language that creates that exception and removes the paragraph that described those special allegations. The bill also renumbers the remaining paragraphs so the section stays organized and fixes a cross-reference so it points to the right paragraph. In short, it gives the DOJ Inspector General direct authority over all covered allegations about DOJ employees, instead of excluding a specific category from the Inspector General’s reach.

The DOJ Inspector General is the main independent watchdog inside the Justice Department. Changing its powers can affect how possible misconduct by DOJ employees is reviewed. By removing an exception in current law, this bill would allow the Inspector General to handle a wider range of cases involving DOJ personnel. This could change which office inside DOJ looks into sensitive complaints and how those investigations are started and overseen. The exact real-world impact would depend on how often those previously excluded cases arise and how DOJ chooses to organize its other internal review offices after the change. The bill itself does not change penalties or create new crimes; it focuses on who is allowed to investigate.

• Amends section 413 of title 5, United States Code, which governs the DOJ Inspector General.
• Deletes an existing paragraph in subsection (b) that carved out a specific type of allegation from the Inspector General’s authority.
• Removes a related clause in subsection (d) that referred to “allegations described in subsection (b)(3),” eliminating that exception.
• Renumbers remaining paragraphs in subsection (b) and updates an internal cross-reference so the statute remains coherent after the deletion.
• Expands the set of DOJ personnel allegations that can be directly investigated by the Inspector General by removing a statutory limitation.

• The main change is a deletion and renumbering; the impact depends on what was in the removed paragraph (b)(3), which the bill text does not restate.
• The bill does not create new penalties, reporting requirements, or funding; it only changes who can investigate certain allegations.
• Internal DOJ policies might still shape how cases are assigned or coordinated, even if the legal exception for the Inspector General is removed.