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Until 1883, when Brandenburg, then the only Prussian province without an own provincial archive, founded the Brandenburgian Provincial Archive, the Privy State Archives also collected all the records from that territorial and political entity. By 1901, the institution had developed precise standards for the preservation of public records that ...
Founded in 1950, the Municipal Archives preserves and makes accessible records created by the government of New York City (including the mayor's office, city agencies, the City Council, the Comptroller, borough presidents and the Public Advocate). The collections include manuscripts, sound recordings, film and tape footage, maps, blueprints ...
Efforts to separate the District's archives date to at least 1982 and were formalized with the D.C. Public Records Management Act of 1985. [4] [1] Philip W. Oglvie was made the original director of the office, and a National Archives employee named Dorothy S. Provine joined as D.C.'s first archivist.
The California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§6250-6276.48) covers the arrest and booking records of inmates in the State of California jails and prisons, which are not covered by First Amendment rights (freedom of speech and of the press). Public access to arrest and booking records is seen as a critical safeguard of liberty.
44,000 maps; 20,000 illustrations; 4,000 videotapes British Virgin Islands: Archives and Records Management Unit, Governor's Office Road Town Brunei: Brunei National Archives: Bandar Seri Begawan: 1983 Bulgaria: Bulgarian Archives State Agency: Sofia Burkina Faso: National Archives Centre: Ouagadougou Burundi: DMS Burundi Bujumbura
A record office will typically include public search rooms (including reference books, archive catalogues and other finding aids), environmentally controlled strongrooms, administrative offices, and quite often small exhibition areas [a] together with a conservation room for the specialist repair [b] of documents.
The FOIA Project was created by TRAC to track government agencies' responsiveness to public records requests and to document the growing number of FOIA cases litigated in federal court. [10] The Project maintains a public website with information on federal FOIA cases, [ 31 ] agency FOIA processing times, a list of the most active FOIA ...
Reclaim The Records is the first genealogical organization to successfully sue a government agency for the release of records back to the public. As of July 2019, the organization has acquired and freely published more than twenty five million records, most of which had never been open to the public before in any location or format, or else ...