Thread: Over 125,000 New White House Visitor Records Online

Over 125,000 New White House Visitor Records Online

Posted by Nikki Sutton on March 25, 2011 at 04:00 PM EDT

In September 2009, the President announced that – for the first time in history – the White House would routinely release visitor records. Today, the White House releases visitor records that were generated in December 2010. Today’s release also includes several visitor records generated prior to September 16, 2009 that were requested by members of the public in January 2011 pursuant to the White House voluntary disclosure policy. This release brings the grand total of records that this White House has released to over 1.2 million records. You can view them all in our Disclosures section. In addition, due to personal safety concerns, the White House has withheld 81 visitor records of women and children from a shelter for victims of domestic violence that participated in a White House holiday tour.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/ ... rds-online
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Visitor Access Records

As part of President Obama's commitment to government transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis online. In December 2009, we will begin posting all White House visitor records for the period from September 15th onwards under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. In addition, as part of our new policy, we will post records dating from January 20th that are specifically requested on an ongoing basis. For more information, read the White House blog post announcing the new policy.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room ... or-records