From: Patrice McDermott <pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net> Thanks, James. NARA has confirmed a 3-week extension (until 23 Nov) on comments (just late yesterday). So, Emily Manna/Samantha Feinstein will be pulling something together for the openness and transparency folks.
I encourage the CSS folks, and Fed Data folks, and envir’l folks – and FOIA folks! – to start working on drafting your comments – and, of course, to circulate them to your communities for sign-on. Russ Kick has been doing a deep dive and will be sending something around soon. I will recirculate to the listservs here (as he is not on most of them). Thanks, again, James! The current relevant docs are here https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch *From:* Mr. James R. (Librarian) Jacobs [mailto:jrjac...@stanford.edu] Hi Patrice. I’m getting the word out to library- and transparency groups. Is there an open public letter onto which people could sign? Best James Jacobs ... . -. - ..-. .-. --- -- -- -.-- - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. .... On Oct 22, 2018, at 11:43 AM, Patrice McDermott <pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net> wrote: Before the call, be sure to read NARA’s appraisal memo https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf It is NOT the final word, but it may help inform the discussion – and comments. Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch *From:* Patrice McDermott Yes, that is Russ Kick’s site & is definitely credible, etc. Russ has made it easier for folks to find these requests to NARA from agencies. NARA is working on a way to do that but is not there yet. The closed cases site is not it, of course, as it only shows the ones on which final decisions have been made. One can also just set up an alert from the Fed Reg, but Russ’s site is centralized. I urge folks to look at Russ’s site. The request is very extensive. Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch *From:* Anne Polansky <an...@whistleblower.org> Hello all, looking forward to our call this afternoon! Don't know if you all have seen this -- I found an "alt" site - looks to be credible and legit - detailed and informative. https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ And, this web page from the National Archives is a useful reference as well - perhaps the archivist-types in this group are familiar but this is a new info source to me. https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/unauthorizeddispositionclosedcases Unauthorized Dispositions Closed Cases | National Archives <https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/unauthorizeddispositionclosedcases> www.archives.gov Under 44 USC 3106 and 36 CFR Part 1230, "Unlawful or Accidental Removal, Defacing, Alteration, or Destruction of Records," Federal agencies are required to "notify the Archivist of any actual, impending, or threatened unlawful removal, defacing, alteration, corruption, deletion, erasure, or other destruction of records in the custody of the agency." NARA also receives ------------------------------ *From:* Patrice McDermott <pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net> Reminder of call today (and first notification for FOI list folks – sorry). Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcderm...@govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch October 22, 2018 @ 2 PM EDT Call on Department of Interior's Proposed Destruction of Records The DOI 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. See further highlighted info in the note from Russ Kick below. October 29 is the deadline to comment. During this call organizations can share their proposed action plan and ideas for collaborative action. Call-in details included: https://goo.gl/forms/lvJAAhOcZFsmU5zg2 Please RSVP <https://goo.gl/forms/lvJAAhOcZFsmU5zg2> and share with other orgs/groups that might be interested. *From:* Samantha Feinstein Good Morning, This is a friendly reminder about today’s call at 2:00 for those of you who interested in discussing the Department of Interior's proposed destruction of records. Please RSVP here if you plan to participate: https://goo.gl/forms/LDQdJV85Lt9ZU0Nh2 Many thanks, Samantha *Samantha Feinstein * *Senior Legal and International Analyst *Government Accountability Project 1612 K St., NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202-457-0034 x 162 E-mail: samant...@whistleblower.org Website: http://www.whistleblower.org Skype: samant...@whistleblower.org *Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, Government Accountability Project’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability. Founded in 1977, Government Accountability Project is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization located in Washington, D.C.* *NOTICE:* *This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately and do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use this information. Also, please indicate to the sender that you have received this communication in error.* *From:* Samantha Feinstein October 22, 2018 @ 2 PM EDT Call on Department of Interior's Proposed Destruction of Records The DOI 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. See further highlighted info in the note from Russ Kick below. October 29 is the deadline to comment. During this call organizations can share their proposed action plan and ideas for collaborative action. 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Also, please indicate to the sender that you have received this communication in error.* ------------------------------ *From:* Russ Kick As I mentioned a while back, I've started a new project to bring much-needed transparency to the process whereby agencies get permission to destroy their records at fixed intervals (chosen by the agencies and okayed by the National Archives). I'm obtaining and posting every such request, which have never appeared online before. This project is here: https://altgov2.org/records-destruction-requests/ Today I want to specifically highlight a massive request from the Department of the Interior to schedule records destruction across *all *of its agencies. It's 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. It's also wanting to permanently retain a smaller subset of documents in each category, which will be transferred to the National Archives, where they will become harder to access via FOIA. This is crucial stuff. In the months, years, and decades ahead, if you get "records destroyed" responses, or a vague "no records" response, from NPS, BLM, FWS, BIA, etc., this could be the root cause. But there's time to comment. *October 29 *is the deadline I was given. Here's all the info, including a streamlined, easy-to-read HTML version of Interior's extensive request: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ --Russ -- *Please support my fight against secrecy: altgov2.org/donate <http://www.altgov2.org/donate>* Russ Kick http://www.russkick.com/ http://www.altgov2.org/ http://www.thememoryhole2.org/ --
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