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Consultant is a professional advisor under contract with the TDCJ
who performs consulting services for the TDCJ.
Contract Employee is an individual who performs services for the TDCJ
on a contractual basis.
"Employee" is a person employed by the TDCJ on a full-time,
part-time, or temporary basis.
"Information Resources" means the procedures, equipment, and software that
are employed, designed, built, operated, and
maintained to collect, record, process, store, retrieve,
display, and transmit information, and associated
personnel including consultants and contractors.
"Intern" is an individual who performs work for the TDCJ on a
temporary basis without pay, and whose work: (a)
provides training or supplements training given in an
educational environment;
(b) provides experience for the benefit of the
individual performing the work; and (c) is performed
under the close supervision of TDCJ staff.
"Other Individual" is a person requiring a user account with the TDCJ;
for example, Windham School District employees,
Special Prosecutor's Office, Sheriff's Department,
and Board of Pardons and Paroles employees.
,"User" is an employee, contract employee, consultant,
vendor, intern, volunteer, automated application,
process, or other individual authorized to access the
information resource by the information owner, in
accordance with the owner's procedures and rules.
"Vendor" is any company or individual under contract to
provide a service to the TDCJ, other than through a
contract employee, when providing such service
requires the vendor or the vendor's employee to: (a)
have access to premises owned, leased, or
contracted by the TDCJ; or
(b) provide services to inmates at any location.
"Volunteer" is an individual who has been approved to perform
volunteer services for the TDCJ.
TRUE OR FALSE? A "Data Use and Non-Disclosure Agreement" “(PD-
04)”for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
(TDCJ) is a legal document that outlines the
restrictions on how individuals accessing sensitive
information related to inmates, employees, or
releasees can use and disclose that data, essentially
requiring them to maintain confidentiality of all
records and information pertaining to the agency,
including personal details, criminal history, and health
information, and prohibiting unauthorized sharing of
such data.
EEO STANDS FOR... Equal employment opportunities
(PD-12) EEO MEANS…. To affirm the continuing commitment of the TDCJ to
provide equal employment opportunities to all
qualified applicants and employees without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
disability or genetic information.
, "Texas Workforce Commission, Civil is the state agency charged with: (1) enforcing state
Rights Division" (TWC-CRD) laws prohibiting employment discrimination and
retaliation; and (2) investigating alleged violations of
such laws.
Equal Employment Opportunity is the federal agency that enforce to D Cars Employe
Commission (EEOC) & clarionyment discrimination and retaliation. The
EOC is separate from the TDCJ employee relations.
(PD-13), “SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND To provide guidelines for the maintenance of a work
DISCOURTEOUS CONDUCT environment within the TDCJ that is free of sexual
OF A SEXUAL NATURE” harassment and discourteous conduct of a sexual
nature, and to provide procedures for the reporting
of such conduct so that prompt remedial action can
occur.
"Complainant" is an employee or other individual bringing forth
allegations of prohibited conduct.
"Discourteous Conduct of a Sexual is conduct, in words or actions, of a sexual nature
Nature" toward or observed by another TDCJ employee or
other individual (see definition for "Other Individual")
that: (a) a reasonable person would find offensive; or
(b) is unwelcome to the person to whom such
conduct is directed and that person has
communicated, by words or actions, to the other
person that the conduct is unwelcome.