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U.S. Historians Are Fighting to Stop ICE From Erasing Records of Agency’s Treatment of Immigrants
[August 9, 2018 update] Thank you Meg Phillips, NARA’s External Affairs Liaison, for contacting me and offering additional information and context. Meg notes that “No agency may dispose of records without written authorization from the Archivist of the United States in the form of approval of the records retention schedule. That is what is going […]
Judge Lets Secret Service Hide White House Visitor Logs
The National Security Archive at George Washington University announced today that a federal judge is allowing the Secret Service to hide the White House visitor logs that contain 5.99 million records. Such records were routinely released by the Obama administration. When the Trump administration did not release its own records, NSA filed a FOIA lawsuit. […]
Trump administration officials dismissed benefits of national monuments
Every day seems to bring a new revelation about just how sneaky and un-transparent this administration’s agency heads are. Since EPA administrator Scott Pruitt resigned, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has become the new poster boy for scandals and federal investigations. In yesterday’s Washington Post, it has been revealed that “Trump administration officials dismissed benefits of […]
Preserving What’s Gone — The Healthcare Guidelines Case
In a recent post on the blog of the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, Shawn Jones reports on research that is vital to all those interested in long term access to government information. How well are the National Guideline Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Archived? Shawn M. Jones, Web Science and […]
Dept. of Commerce must release data under FOIA, not charge $174,000
Many federal government agencies are allowed (and in some cases are required) by law to charge fees for access to data they collect. The US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) maintains a database of U.S. visitors by their origin, age, residency, port of entry, visa type, and initial destination. ITA charges from thirteen […]
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