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The Federal Records Act was created following the recommendations of the Hoover Commission (1947-49). [1] It implemented one of the reforms proposed by Emmett Leahy in his October 1948 report on Records Management in the United States Government, with the goal of ensuring that all federal departments and agencies had a program for records management.
The act amends federal law regarding the preservation, storage, and management of federal records, specifically requiring, prior to the release of records, the archivist of the United States to give appropriate notice to both the current president of the United States and the president who was in office at the time the documentation was made. [1]
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [2]The Federal Records Accountability Act of 2014 would create a process for the suspension and removal (subject to specified due process requirements) of an employee whom the Inspector General of a federal agency determines has: (1) willfully and unlawfully concealed, removed ...
Survey: Federal Agencies Overspending on Records Management by an Average of $5 Million Annually Government finance and records professionals cite exponential growth of records as main culprit and ...
Reputational damage caused by poor records management has demonstrated that records management is the responsibility of all individuals within an organization. An issue that has been very controversial among records managers has been the uncritical adoption of electronic document and records management systems. Impact of internet and social media
Records Management Oversight and Reporting Office; The Chief Records Officer also oversees the "Permanent Records Capture Team" which, along with the National Archives Appraisal Branch, identify United States government records which are considered critical or vital and should be maintained by the National Archives. Both the capture team and ...
The National Archives governs federal records and information policy for the executive branch and preserves and makes available the records of the judicial and legislative branches. Agencies in the executive branch are required by the Federal Records Act to follow approved records schedules. All records maintained by the executive branch must ...
The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. §§ 2201–2209, [3] is an Act of the United States Congress governing the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981, and mandating the preservation of all presidential records.