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NARA proposing to shut down San Bruno/San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle facilities. We need YOU to stop it from happening!
The Federal News Network broke the news last month that the “National Archives to transition out of three federal records centers.” NARA is proposing to close down the regional facilities in San Bruno/San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. Sources say that records may be removed from these facilities as early as this September and relocate its […]
National Archives to Host Sunshine Week Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Government Access
Sunshine Week (March 10-16, 2024) and Freedom of Information Day (March 16, 2024) are coming up fast. Sunshine Week is a nonpartisan collaboration among groups in the journalism, civic, education, government and private sectors that shines a light on the importance of public records and open government. Besides all of the regular events that are […]
NARA seeking public comment on a proposed rule concerning the digitization of public records
The first 2 weeks of 2021 have been a whirlwind and have included a failed insurrection at the nation’s capitol and the SECOND(!) impeachment of President Trump for inciting that insurrection! However crazy things may be at the moment, I wanted to call our readers’ attention to an extremely important announcement in the Federal Register […]
Reclaim the Records “mother-of-all-FOIA requests” and NARA’s new digitization partnership site
An activist group called Reclaim the Records recently submitted the “mother-of-all-FOIA requests” asking for billions of pages scanned through NARA’s public-private digitization partnership program. Here’s the twitter thread describing it: Hey! @USNatArchives just did something new, and really good for transparency! And we think it maybe *might* be because of that "mother-of-all-FOIA requests" we just […]
NARA digitizes 374 treaties between indigenous peoples and the US
Thanks to an anonymous donation, the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has “conserved and digitized the Ratified Indian treaties in its holdings,” 374 treaties between indigenous peoples and the United States (and its predecessor colonies). The IDA Treaties Explorer lets one also explore maps and see which tribes are associated with which treaties. […]
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