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Request
for Report of Investigation on a Stolen
Bible (NARA OIG FOIA 19-11)
Mr.
Siddall,
Thank you
for talking with me on April 17th clarifying
your previous
FOIA
request by letting me know you were looking
solely for the price
a stolen
Bible was sold for. The records at the OIG
indicate the
Bible was
sold for $1250 by the subject of the
investigation.
For your
information, the Office of Inspector General
(OIG) is an
independent unit of the National Archives
and Records Administration
(NARA)
tasked by Congress to combat fraud, waste,
abuse and
mismanagement within NARA. As such, we have
no control or authority
over
records kept and maintained by any other
government agency, or
even any
office at NARA. We only control those
records generated
within the
OIG alone. I have reviewed our files and a
redacted copy
of the
report is attached.
You have
the right to administratively appeal this
release by writing
to the
Archivist of the United States, National
Archives and Records
Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College
Park, MD, 20740, within
ninety
(90) calendar days of the date of this
letter. If you choose
to appeal,
your appeal letter and its envelope should
be clearly
marked
“Freedom of Information Act Appeal,” and you
should explain why
you
believe NARA should release the withheld
information.
If you
would like to discuss our response before
filing an appeal to
attempt to
resolve your dispute without going through
the appeals
process,
you may contact the OIG’s FOIA Public
Liaison, James Springs,
for
assistance at:
National
Archives and Records Administration
Office of
Inspector General
8601
Adelphi Road, Room 1300
College
Park, MD 20740-6001
james.springs@nara.gov
If you are
unable to resolve your FOIA dispute through
the FOIA Public
Liaison,
the Office of Government Information
Services (OGIS), the
Federal
FOIA Ombudsman’s office, offers mediation
services to help
resolve
disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal
agencies. The
contact
information for OGIS is:
Office of
Government Information Services
National
Archives and Records Administration
8601
Adelphi Road–OGIS
College
Park, MD 20740-6001
ogis@nara.gov
ogis.archives.gov
202-741-5770 or 1-877-684-6448
Finally,
in accordance with Department of Justice
guidance, I would
also like
to notify you that Congress excluded three
discrete
categories
of law enforcement and national security
records from the
requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C.
552(c) (2006 & Supp. IV 2010).
This
response is limited to those records that
are subject to the
requirements of the FOIA. This is a
standard notification given to
all our
requesters and should not be taken as an
indication excluded
records
do, or do not, exist.
If you
have any questions, please feel free to
contact me directly at
301-837-1966 or john.simms@nara.gov. Thank
you for contacting the
NARA OIG.
Respectfully,
John Simms
Counsel to
the Inspector General
Office of
Inspector General
National
Archives and Records Administration
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