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The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, in section 2, amended the Presidential Records Act to require the archivist of the United States, upon determining to make publicly available any presidential record not previously made available, to: (1) promptly provide written notice of such determination to the incumbent president ...
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]
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.
The process of removing previously declassified records was itself covert until it was revealed by the National Security Archive in February 2006. [4] Following outcry by journalists, historians, and the public, an internal audit by the National Archive’s Information Security Oversight Office indicated that more than one-third of the records ...
Introduced in the Senate as S. 3418 by Samuel Ervin Jr. (D–NC) on May 1, 1974; Committee consideration by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Passed the Senate on November 21, 1974 ()
Legislation that seeks to "reform" New Jersey's Open Public Records Act — but could gut access to public records — is back for new consideration. Amended reform of NJ OPRA, which could limit ...
The Executive Order was revoked by President George W. Bush's Executive Order 13233 on 1 November 2001, which further limited access to the records of former United States Presidents. This order was in turn revoked by President Barack Obama 's Executive Order 13489 [ 1 ] on January 21, 2009 (his first day in office), which essentially restored ...