AGENCY: Office of Vital Records and Statistics

SERIES: 28623
TITLE: Witness protection files
DATES: 1976-
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by case number

DESCRIPTION: These records support the agency's function to provide suitable documents to enable a person in the witness protection program to establish a new identity (Witness Protection Act, 18 USC 224-3521 (1982)). These records document the issuance of a new birth certificate for persons under witness protection and include the original birth certificate, the new birth certificate, and court records authorizing the changes.

RETENTION

Retain permanently

DISPOSITION

May Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.

APPROVED: 01/2015

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office permanently.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical Legal

The Witness Protection Act of 1982 requires that the Attorney General "provides suitable documents to enable the person to establish a new identity or otherwise protect the person" (Witness Protection Act, 18 USC 224-3521 (1982)). These records document that action and, as vital records, have historical value.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Exempt. Utah Code 26-2-22 (2012)

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