Currently the federal government ignores public access and review in applying record retention laws. So, for example - if a document is classified secret and has a 30 year retention period, but is never declassified during those 30 years, it is destroyed having never seen the light of day.
Change this. All record retention periods should apply ONLY to documents that have been fully declassified and released for public
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Currently the federal government ignores public access and review in applying record retention laws. So, for example - if a document is classified secret and has a 30 year retention period, but is never declassified during those 30 years, it is destroyed having never seen the light of day.
Change this. All record retention periods should apply ONLY to documents that have been fully declassified and released for public review.
More than that, having been classified and out of sight, the public is unaware of the mere existence of the documents released or their importance. So, for any document covered by any classification (save for privacy act), the public retention period should be not less than 50 years beyond the date they are first made readily available to the public. This should include all administrative classifications except privacy act, including Official Use Only (OUO).
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