Showing posts with label records management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label records management. Show all posts
Saturday, January 21, 2023

The Honor System for Records Management

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 A recent newspaper article (Times or Post?) noted that enforcement of the Federal Records Act is entrusted to the honor system. What does t...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Bar/CR Codes for Classified Documents?

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 I had very limited exposure to the classification system for government documents during my time in ASCS/FSA.  IIRC ASCS did get some class...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Thoughts on Secrecy

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 A couple random thoughts.  The former guy and some of his defenders claim he declassified documents even though (presumably) the bureaucrat...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Cynical Take on Federal Records Act

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 Commentary on the missing Secret Service cellphone records has invoked the spector of the Federal Records Act, violation of which can lead ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

I'm Not Surprised: Trump Disorganized with Transcripts

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 There was a memoir written by a stenographer who worked recording and transcribing events in the Obama White House. It was pretty good.  ...
Monday, November 23, 2020

National Records Act and Trump

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 Jill Lepore has an article in the New Yorker on the Trump administration and official records. It's  pretty good.  For a while I was ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Sad Words on Records Management

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 Federal Computer Week has a long discussion of the challenges records management faces in the current environment:“I love my records manage...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

"Peak Document"

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That's a term used in the title of the presidential address at the American Historical Association meeting. What McNeill is talking abo...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Time to Put Teeth in Records Acts?

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A serious query: does deleting tweets violate the Presidential Records Act? https://t.co/z3NqVVYUlv — Andrew Rudalevige (@rudalev) Novemb...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Laws Aren't Self-Executing

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My title is, I think, obviously true.  But just to recap: some laws are enforced by a bureaucracy, the police or an executive agency whic...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Trump Records Management II

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Some more thoughts on the Politico piece describing how Trump tears up documents when he's through with them, requiring employees to tap...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Records Management in the Trump White House

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This is- -I lack the words. The management of official records is a serious business, but one can only laugh.