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The Presidential Records Act was enacted in 1978 after President Richard Nixon sought to destroy records relating to his presidential tenure upon his resignation in 1974. The law superseded the policy in effect during Nixon’s tenure that a president’s records were considered private property, making clear that presidential records are owned ...
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 Records Act, also known as an Act to provide for the safe-keeping of the Acts, Records and Seal of the United States, and for other purposes, was the fourteenth law passed by the United States Congress. The first section of the bill renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Department of State. [6]
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The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 (Pub. L. 113–187 (text)) is a United States federal statute which amended the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act. Introduced as H.R. 1233, it was signed into law by President Barack Obama on November 26, 2014.
Access to Public Records Act IN Code §§ 5-14-3-1 to 5-14-3-10 1983 [26] Any person Iowa Iowa Open Records Law Iowa Code §§ 22.1 to 22.16 1967 [27] Any person Kansas Kansas Open Records Act KSA §§ 45–215 to 45-524 1984 [28] Any person Kentucky Kentucky Open Records Act Kentucky Revised Statute Chapter §§ 61.870 to 61.884 1976 [29]
The Presidential Records Act of 1978 expanded such protection of historical records, by mandating that the records of former presidents would automatically become the property of the federal government upon their departures from the Oval Office, and then transferred to the Archivist of the United States, thereafter to be made available to the ...