Lawsuits
CREW sues government for insurrection response records
DOJ, DHS, DOD, the Army, and Interior Department must answer for their failures in preparing and responding to the January 6th insurrection.
Letters
CREW urges Congress to investigate full scope of insurrection
Congress should include events in the months leading up to and months after the election in their investigation into the 1/6 insurrection.
Lawsuits
CREW sues DHS and Interior for Lafayette Square racial justice protest records
The public needs to know what allowed Trump and Barr to suppress protesters for racial justice for Trump's propaganda photoshoot last summer.
Lawsuits
CREW sues CDC for records on coronavirus racial data collection
CREW is suing the CDC given widespread skepticism surrounding the collection and retention of coronavirus demographic data.
Letters
NARA must ensure Trump preserves tweets during presidential transition
The Trump administration's past record keeping failures means NARA must work with social media companies to preserve Trump's online content.
Letters
Interior Department failed to report destroyed federal records
NARA should take action to recover all federal records from former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s government-issued phones.
Legal Complaints
DOJ should investigate former Trump officials for violating ethics law
Rather than focusing only on a critic of Trump, the DOJ should investigate multiple former Trump officials for potentially violating the law.
Legal Complaints
CREW sends complaint on CDC records destruction
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield appears to have violated the Federal Records Act.
Testimony
Donald Sherman testifies on GSA failures during presidential transition
The administration and GSA Administrator Murphy failed to facilitate a smooth transition. Congress should ensure that never happens again.
Lawsuits
Groups sue Trump and White House to stop destruction of administration records
As President Trump’s term ends, we face an increasing risk that historically valuable records of his presidency will be permanently lost.
Letters
Trump staff must preserve presidential records
CREW wrote a letter to the White House Counsel urging him to warn Trump officials to keep presidential records or face criminal penalty.
Lawsuits
CREW, NIPNLG and Project South sue ICE over forced sterilization records
ICE needs to answer for their failure to reveal records on their gross human rights abuses, this time in the form of forced sterilizations.