Watch Out for Instant Classification Experts, and the Reality of the OPM Lawsuit Settlement – SCI Episode 24

News of Donald Trump possibly having classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence have led to a flood of online experts sharing their own clearances and security clearance stories. Love Rutledge, a 22-year-federal employee and host of the FedUpward podcast talks about best practices for federal employees navigating classification news in the headlines. The bottom line is you shouldn’t be sharing information about the classified programs you’ve worked on, and you shouldn’t view documents that get released unless you know they’re declassified. 

In the second half of the program security clearance attorney Sean Bigley and Lindy Kyzer with ClearanceJobs discuss the OPM data breach lawsuit settlement, and why the average security clearance holder probably won’t be getting any cash.