We recommend that the Department of Justice give serious consideration to a departmentwide default open file policy.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “We recommend that the Department of Justice give serious consideration to a departmentwide default open file policy.”
On the recordMay 29, 2012
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Whitehouse advocates for a transparent open file policy in the Department of Justice.
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