17. Department of Justice · Minor
Bar third-party contractor reports that look like official BJS reports
Printed page 571 17. Department of Justice
“Moreover, a clear line should be maintained between official government statistics and third-party contractor reports. There should be no reports that look like official BJS reports but are authored by private entities such as the Urban Institute as happened under the Obama Administration.”
What has happened
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No policy separating official Bureau of Justice Statistics reports from third-party contractor products has been issued. Searched the Federal Register Corpus for every notice issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Justice Programs in the window, the whitehouse.gov presidential-actions Corpus, and all 2,087 headquarters press releases fetched from the department's own press API. Nothing addresses report authorship, branding or the use of outside research organizations, and no rescission of the practice the Quote complains of appears on the record.
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Research log
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- third-party contractor reports issued as BJS reports
- ID
- 1589