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Nothing says Valentine’s Day like the government quoting Shakespeare to warn you against STIs. We hope you get a kick out of this 1990 poster from our Gov Docs collection! 

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Jazz, as an indigenous American music form, has been recognized by Congress to be a valuable national treasure This newsletter describes how to preserve and interpret the origins of New Orleans Jazz. 

via Sunlight Foundation blog:

To engage in a monumental understatement, it’s a big deal for the public’s information to be altered or disposed of without justified intention and public notice of the removal. In spring 2018, for the first time the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has begun using the Internet to inform the American public about its ongoing investigations of unauthorized dispositions in an online dashboard. In a year that continues to be marked by regression on transparency and accountability under the Trump administration, this is a welcome development that shines a bright light on a matter of significant public concern and shows continued commitment by NARA to its open government plan.

“For many years in the Performance Accountability Report, we have included a table of all open and closed cases by financial year, but it was available only as an end-of-the-year snapshot and not as a real-time, ongoing tool that we have now via the website,” Laurence Brewer, chief records office of the United States, informed Sunlight in an email.

For those unfamiliar, “unauthorized disposition” refers to the unlawful or accidental removal, defacing, alteration or destruction of federal records under 44 USC 3106 and 36 CFR Part 1230.

This section of the U.S. Code requires 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.”

The Archivist and NARA staff constantly monitor the media, nonprofit watchdogs like Sunlight, and feedback from the general public for potential unauthorized dispositions. (You can contact NARA at [email protected] if you are aware of a potential records issue or want more information.) NARA’s Records Management Oversight and Reporting Program is responsible for establishing case files as it investigates allegations, including communications with a given agency until the issue is resolved.

“Our goal is to close cases as quickly as we can, however, some cases are complex in nature or under litigation,” said Brewer. “NARA currently has fifteen cases that have been open 365 days or more.  NARA has been actively working on our older open cases. Since last year, we have closed thirteen cases that were open for a year or more.  NARA spends a considerable amount of time reviewing the background information on each legacy case and in some cases, restarting dialogue between NARA and the agency, which may include escalating to the Senior Agency Official for Records Management.”

The U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations approved the U.S. Government Publishing Office's (GPO) full funding request for the fiscal year 2019 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill. At $117 million, GPO's request is $68,000 less compared with funding approved for FY 2018. Since 2010, GPO's appropriations have declined by nearly 21%.

“We commend the GPO for their ability to do more with less,” said Chairman Kevin Yoder during the Subcommittee’s mark-up of the bill. “Their funding has slightly decreased which is a testament to their adoption of technology and extremely hard work.”

The FY 2019 request will enable GPO to:

meet projected requirements for congressional publishing;

fund the operation of the public information programs of the Superintendent of Documents; and

develop information technology, including cybersecurity, in systems that support the agency's congressional publishing and public information programs operations.

more:

GPO's FY 2019 Appropriations Request

GPO’s Appropriations Hearing