by Don Lueders at X
This coup is a treasonous act of rebellion by Federal bureaucrats against a duly elected President and his administration. Is this coup limited to this one agency? Or do other agencies have the same plans for the start of the new fiscal year?
As part of the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, the Obama administration changed the definition of a Federal “record” to include “all recorded information”. This change was barely noticed by the general public but had a transformative effect on the legally compliant management of Federal agency information.
With this new definition, all digitally recorded information created or received by a Federal agency became subject to the Federal Records Act, the Privacy Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and a multitude of information security laws. This meant that, going forward, all agency electronic information must be rendered immutable as evidence of the record’s authenticity, integrity, and provenance.
This new definition also meant that a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)-approved records retention period must be assigned to all electronically recorded agency information (i.e., Federal records), and no information can be deleted by anyone until it has met its appropriate retention requirement.
In short, the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 made the management of the lifecycle of all agency recorded information the sole responsibility of the agency’s records management program and without a functioning records management program, the agency’s entire information infrastructure will collapse.
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