- My FOIA requests to the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS), 2017-2020:
- My FOIA requests to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records of the NCMNPS transferred to NARA:
- My FOIA requests to the Selective Service System (SSS):
- SSS local, state, and national draft boards, appeal boards, and registrars (requested 7 December 2020; request denied in its entirety; appealed 9 March 2021; denial overturned on appeal and request partially granted 19 March 2021
- Contingency plans for a general draft (RIPS) or a draft of health care workers (HCPDS) (requested 21 December 2021, response 12 January 2022; note that these contingency plans are inconsistent with some provisions of current and proposed SSS regulations, but the SSS claims to have no other draft regulations that would reconcile these differences)
- SSS Headquarters Orders, model state legislation, and data matching policies and agreements with other agencies (requested 22 January 2022, response 17 February 2022)
- SSS reports and records of referrals of possible nonregistrants to the Department of Justice (requested 22 July 2022, response 17 August 2022; after I made this request, the SSS posted some of the requested reports in a new section of its Web site)
- Other FOIA requests to the Selective Service System (SSS):
- SSS contingency plans for a general draft (31 January 2017, requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
- SSS standard operating procedures for a draft lottery (September 2012; requested by TheBlackVault.com)
- SSS Registrant Inquiries Manual for registration records (looseleaf, various dates as pages were updated; released 2014; requested by TheBlackVault.com)
- SSS Transition briefing for the incoming Biden Administration (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
- SSS records about women, the draft, and draft registration (25 March 2019, requested by GovernmentAttic.org; includes additonal details of SSS contingency plans and budgets and records of Obama Administration White House inter-agency meetings on expanding draft registration to women)
- SSS Directives, 1999, 2005, 2014 (includes SSS state legislative lobbying programs; requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
- SSS “Call and Deliver” and induction exercise procedures and reports (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
- Memoranda Of Understanding and Memoranda Of Agreement between the SSS and the Department of Defense (DoD), 1997, 2003, 2011 (requested by GovernmentAttic.org; note that any agreements between the SSS and the Department of Justice were also requested, but none were found)
- SSS Memoranda Of Understanding and policies and procedures related to Alternative Service Workers (ASWs) and Conscientious Objectors, 2009 (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
- SSS presentation to Conscientious Objector/Peace Church communities relating to the Alternative Service Program, 2009 (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
- More about the Selective Service System and what it does
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