Oh god this is so awful and apparently across many aspects of government- a similar records destruction request has been filed by US DHS for recordsof immigrant detention!
Regards / Saludos / Grato Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Oct 23, 2018, at 6:35 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjac...@stanford.edu> > > I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the > National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially > historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for > permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, wells, > timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, > non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots more. > Basically records from every agency within the Interior Department, including > the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Fish & Wildlife > Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Safety and Environmental > Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and others. This is all content that > would normally go to NARA for collection and preservation. This is disturbing > because previous administrations would obfuscate records by > classifying/reclassifying records. This admin is basically just destroying > records so they’ll never be accessible. > > There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA: > request.sched...@nara.gov /// fax: 301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi > Road, College Park MD 20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to > DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers who may > be effected. > > More information: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ > > NARA’s appraisal memo > https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf > > > this is tragic and terrible. > > james > > > > -- > James R. Jacobs > US Government Information Librarian > 123D Green Library > Stanford University > P: 650.862.9871 > E: jrjac...@stanford.edu > Gchat: freegovinfo > T: @freegovinfo > W: freegovinfo.info > lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu > library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs > freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs > > "The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and see the > passion." > -- Daryl Zero, "The Zero Effect" (1998) > ---------------------------------- > This message has been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies > including the FBI, CIA, and NSA without notice, warrant or knowledge of > sender or recipient and without regard for the US Constitution. > > (\ > {|||8- > (/ > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at > zakwh...@stanford.edu.
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