President Barack Obama quietly signed new federal records legislation into
law just before the Thanksgiving holiday that is mostly about putting
limits on the ability of presidential administrations to slam the brakes on
the release of records from prior administrations. But the legislation also
drills into records management practices, and gives the National Archive
and Records Administration new authority to make rules about what is and is
not a federal record. It also enshrines in law current administration
policy of preserving electronic and digital records in their original form,
and transferring them to the Archive in keeping with records schedules.

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