National Archives and Records Administration
United States government agency
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| February 2025 | In the early stages of Trump's second administration, he fires archivist Colleen Shogan. Deputy archivist William J. Bosanko becomes acting archivist, with Jim Byron appointed as senior advisor. |
| 2023 | NARA was legally required to commence establishment of a collection of unidentified anomalous phenomena within 60 days of the NDAA's enactment, with a mandate to collect government records related to UAP, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence. |
| 2023 | The 118th United States Congress and President Joe Biden passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which included the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act, mandating NARA to establish a UAP record collection. |
| August 2022 | The FBI executes a warrant to search Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence for classified documents. |
| April 2022 | The 1950 census was released to the general public, making historical demographic information available for genealogical research. |
| February 2022 | U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence were found by the National Archives. |
| 2021 | Donald Trump delays providing material to the National Archives in accordance with the Presidential Records Act. |
| March 2021 | A federal judge ruled against the National Archives, stating that their approval of ICE record destruction schedules was 'arbitrary and capricious' and that the agency failed to evaluate the records' research value and address public comments. |
| 2020 | Robert Rumsby was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation and fined $5000 for the theft of military artifacts from the National Archives. |
| January 2020 | A Washington Post reporter discovered that the National Archives had blurred and altered protest signs in a 2017 Women's March exhibit, censoring language and changing sign meanings. The agency later admitted 'we were wrong to alter the image'. |
| January 2020 | The U.S. Office of Management and Budget initially decided to close the Seattle National Archives facility, planning to move its records to California and Kansas City. |
| December 2019 | The National Archives approved record schedules for ICE documents related to detainee issues, which would allow destruction of records like sexual abuse reports, death review files, and detention monitoring reports, despite public opposition. |
| April 2019 | An unknown person set fire to an exterior wall of the archives building using a homemade incendiary device, which was subsequently extinguished by firefighters. |
| 2018 | Antonin DeHays was arrested for multiple thefts of military artifacts and records from the National Archives during the mid to late 2010s. |
| 2014 | The National Archives regional office in Anchorage was closed, with records for the region transferred to the Seattle facility. |
| 2012 | The National Archives began storing closed (classified and privacy protected) records, as well as lesser used records and files, at contracted storage facilities operated by the records management company 'Iron Mountain'. |
| 2011 | Leslie Waffen was sentenced to 18 months in prison after stealing 955 recordings from the National Archives. |
| 2011 | Thomas Lowry was permanently banned from the National Archives after confessing to altering the date on a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln. |
| 2011 | The National Archives initiated a WikiProject on the English Wikipedia to expand collaboration in making its holdings widely available. |
| 2010 | A new teaching-with-documents website was premiered, featuring 3,000 documents, images, and recordings, along with lesson plans and classroom activity tools. |
| 2010 | Executive Order 13526 creates the National Declassification Center to coordinate declassification practices across agencies. |
| February 25 2010 | NARA prohibited all public filming, photographing, and videotaping in exhibition areas due to challenges with enforcing photography rules. |
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