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Declassification board 'agitates' for changes to document management

The Public Interest Declassification Board submitted 14 recommendations to President Barack Obama at the end of November. The suggestions cover everything from moving out of the three-tiered classification system to a two-tiered process to strengthening the National Archives and Records Administration's National Declassification Center to giving federal employees "safe harbor" protection if they adhere to a rigorous risk management process in how they perform their classification duties.

Tags: management , technology , NARA , Information Security Oversight Office , John Fitzpatrick , Nancy Soderberg , Marty Faga , records management , CIA , I-ARPA , White House , Jason Miller

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NARA declassification chief tackles backlog

For years, a huge backlog of government agency documents in need of declassification has piled up at the National Archives and Records Administration. Now, however, a woman whose name is familiar in the federal declassification community is on board at NARA, taking the first steps toward whittling away at that backlog of 410 million pages of documents by a seemingly impossible deadline set in the law.

Tags: national security , NARA , Sheryl Shenberger , best practices , Max Cacas

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History at risk over unclassified and declassified information

Without training and leadership, modern history may be lost forever.

Tags: mngt , transparency , classification , national security , Martin Faga , Meredith Fuchs , NARA , GWU , National Security Archive

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Comments sought to reform system for secret docs

The government is taking your comments on how to change the way some agencies keep secrets.

Tags: Martin Faga , classified documents , In Depth

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Blog outlines proposed classification changes

A new blog allows the public to comment on draft proposals about changing the classification and declassification system.

Tags: declassification , classification , transparency , NARA , blog , technology , Jolie Lee

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Document classification system under review

In the government, it's said that nothing has more endurance, or lasts longer than a document stamped "top secret". A presidential advisory panel tasked with developing a newly streamlined classification and declassification system for the government wrestled with one proposal to get rid of one existing category all together.

Tags: national security , DoD , DoE , Andrew Weston-Dawkes , Steven Aftergood , Federation of American Scientists , Barack Obama , Max Cacas

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Recommendations for reducing secrecy

Tags: mngt , security , classification codes , Martin Faga ,

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