Document Reviews

Director's Perspective

Welcome to the Office of Document Reviews

Kenneth M. Stein, Director

Welcome to the Office of Document Reviews. Our information and document declassification efforts promote the release of information needed by an informed citizenry to understand and oversee the actions of its Government. To meet our mission requirements, the Office of Document Reviews:

• Conducts pre-publication reviews of documents generated in classified subject areas at Headquarters that are to be released to the public.
• Conducts document reviews for other HSS and Headquarters organizations to identify classified and controlled unclassified information.
• Reviews classified documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act for the Department and denies the release of the document in total or provides a redacted copy for release to the requester.
• Implements the automatic declassification provisions of section 3.3 of Executive Order 13526 for DOE permanent, historical records.
• Conducts Quality Control Reviews of other Government-agency documents reviewed under section 3.3 of Executive Order 13526 to ensure that any Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data has been identified.

Our staff of dedicated professionals works to ensure that the Department's information assets are publicly released to the maximum extent possible consistent at all times with our paramount concern for the security of our Nation.