IN RESPONSE TO CREW LETTER, NARA CALLS ON LABOR DEPARTMENT TO INVESTIGATE UNAUTHORIZED DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS

4 Nov 2009 // Washington, D.C. - On October 30, 2009, in response to CREW’s letter, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requested that the Department of Labor (DOL) investigate its media sanitization policy, implementing guidance, and the concerns CREW raised about the unauthorized destruction of agency records. CREW wrote to NARA complaining about DOL’s media destruction policies after receiving documents revealing that DOL has a policy of not backing up computers of non-career staff and of wiping clean all computers of departing employees and that, pursuant to this policy, it destroyed all emails of departing Assistant Secretary Patrick Pizzzella, a figure in the Jack Abramoff scandal, in January 2009 without retaining any copies. NARA has directed DOL to report back on its findings within 30 days.

Click here to read NARA's letter to DOL.

Click here to read CREW's letter to NARA.