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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]
The Federal Records Accountability Act of 2014 is a bill that would change the record keeping requirements about some types of communications to ensure that information is not lost. [1] The bill would make it easier to fire a person who willfully and unlawfully concealed, removed, mutilated, obliterated, falsified, or destroyed any record, book ...
We drive openness, cultivate public participation, and strengthen our nation's democracy through equitable public access to high-value government records. [10] The work of the National Archives is dedicated to two main functions: public engagement and federal records and information management.
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
The Federal Register, which is published by the National Archives and Records Administration and overseen by the Office of the Federal Register, is a daily publication of new and amended federal ...
"About Code of Federal Regulations". Government Publishing Office. 9 March 2017. "A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations". Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. July 21, 2012. "Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations". Office of Management and Budget. September 30, 1997.
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.