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Letters
CREW alerts agencies to potential Signal group records act violations
NARA should take immediate action to ensure agency officials and heads at the State, Defense and Treasury Departments, as well as the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, immediately stop using Signal or personal devices for government business and stop destroying records using Signal’s auto-delete function unless these records are properly preserved.
Letters
39 groups call on Congress to reject bill insulating presidents from legal accountability
Congress should reject The PEPPER Act which represents a dangerous step towards making the president a king.
Letters
Shutting down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database appears to violate records law
The Trump administration decommissioned the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) in an apparent violation of federal law