a. This regulation sets forth policies and procedures to:
(1) Authorize placement of unfavorable information about Army members in individual official personnel files.
(2) Ensure that unfavorable information that is unsubstantiated, irrelevant, untimely, or incomplete is not filed in individual official personnel files.
(3) Ensure that the best interests of both the Army and the soldiers are served by authorizing unfavorable information to be placed in and, when appropriate, removed from official personnel files.
b. It also outlines primary staff responsibility for the following (and comparable) offices at all table of organization and equipment and table of distribution and allowances staff levels:
(1) Major commands.
(2) Office, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.
(3) Department of the Army Suitability Evaluation Board.
(4) Office, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence.
(5) HQDA Staff agencies.
(6) Law enforcement, personnel security, and intelligence agencies.
