The JFK Act required all records to be disclosed in full by 26 October 2017, unless the president certified that continued postponement was necessary because of an identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or foreign relations, and that the harm outweighed the public interest. [1][2]
The National Archives says 88 percent of the collection had been open in full since the late 1990s. What remained were documents released with redactions or withheld entirely. [3]
Between July 2017 and April 2018 the Archives released documents in seven batches: 3,810 in July; 2,891 on the deadline day; then 676, 13,213, 10,744, 3,539 and, on 26 April 2018, 18,731. Trump accepted agency redactions in October 2017 and again in April 2018, and ordered a re-review over the next three years. [3][1]
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