All background investigations shall be conducted to ensure that gaming operations shall not employ or contract with persons whose prior activities, or reputation, habits and associations pose a threat to the public interest or to the effective regulation of gaming, or create or enhance the dangers of unsuitable, unfair or illegal practices and methods and activities in the conduct of such gaming. Such investigations shall be conducted according to requirements at least as stringent as those set forth at 25 CFR Parts 556 and 558, and this chapter. Background investigations shall be conducted in a manner which takes all reasonable steps to ensure the confidentiality of the information generated by the investigation as well as that submitted by the applicants. Any willful or careless breach of this requirement may result in a penalty ranging from censure, suspension, removal from office, and a fine of up to Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). The Commission shall have jurisdiction to hear and decide upon any such claims. ONCA 07-09, eff. Dec. 8, 2006; ONCA 10-73, eff. Oct. 5, 2010.