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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]
Chapter 27: Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress; Chapter 29: Records Management by the Archivist of the United States and by the Administrator of General Services; Chapter 31: Records Management by Federal Agencies; Chapter 33: Disposal of Records; Chapter 35: Coordination of Federal Information Policy
The work of the National Archives is dedicated to two main functions: public engagement and federal records and information management. The National Archives administers 15 Presidential Libraries and Museums , a museum in Washington, D.C., that displays the Charters of Freedom, and 15 research facilities across the country. [ 11 ]
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 ...
Electronic Records Archive. The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) is a program of the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to preserve electronic records as part of the U.S. government's broader records management process. The program began in 1998 [1] and started to accept records in 2008. [2]
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
A-130 includes specific guidelines that require all federal information systems to have security plans; systems to have formal emergency response capabilities; a single individual to have responsibility for operational security; Federal Management and Fiscal Integrity Act reports to Congress be made in regards to the security of the system