There may be some better news on the way for those of us who like
free-as-in-FOIA <https://www.techdirt.com/search-g.php?q=foia> information
and an accountable government. Professor and attorney Douglas Cox points
out that an amendment to the statutes governing the National Archive may
give that agency the power to keep records of public interest from being
deleted, destroyed or otherwise hidden
<http://www.docexblog.com/2014/11/congress-just-gave-archivist-power-to.html>.
Having passed every step but presidential approval, H.R. 1233
<http://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr1233/BILLS-113hr1233rs.pdf> (*Presidential
and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014*) [pdf link
<https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1361848/bills-113hr1233rs.pdf>],
makes the following small, but important, change to the Archivist's powers
and duties. Here's the portion Cox highlights at Document Exploitation:
http://bit.ly/1pcYr1xhttp://bit.ly/1pcYr1x+
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