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FOIA
Contact:
Brenda McElroy
Office of the Pardon Attorney
In addition to writing the Office of the Pardon
Attorney, you can email the office at PardonAttorneyFOIA@usdoj.gov. When
sending an email, please provide your full name and mailing address.
Conventional Reading
Room:
United States
Department of Justice
Office of the Pardon Attorney
Electronic
Reading Room:
This includes
records, opinions, policy statements, and staff
manuals/instructions to staff, and other information frequently requested of the Office of the Pardon Attorney.
Component Description:
The Office of
the Pardon Attorney receives and reviews petitions for all forms of
executive clemency, including pardon, commutation (reduction) of sentence,
remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve. It also initiates the
necessary investigations of clemency requests, and prepares the report
and recommendation of the Attorney General, or his designee, to the
President on clemency requests. This office maintains a clemency case
file for each individual who has applied for or been granted clemency.
The office also acts as liaison with the public for correspondence and
informational inquiries about the clemency process or particular clemency
issues, and maintains correspondence files relating to such inquiries.
The office is also the repository of historical records pertaining to
the granting of clemency, and maintains copies of the warrants and proclamations
of clemency granted by the President. It also maintains records relating
to the administration of the office. DOJ
Reference Guide:
A comprehensive guide
to the FOIA that serves as a handbook for obtaining information from
the Department. Special information
required to make a FOIA request:
For clemency files,
the full name of the person who applied for or was granted clemency.
For miscellaneous correspondence files, the full name of the author
of the letter and full name of the person on whose behalf the letter
was written (if different). For FOIA files, the full name of the person
who made the FOIA request. Publicly available information
for which a FOIA request is not required:
Publicly available
information: Executive clemency statistics from the administration
of President McKinley to the present; rules governing the Pardon Attorney
and petitions for executive clemency published at 28 C.F.R. §§ 0.35-36
and § 1.1 et seq.; forms for applying for executive clemency;
copies of clemency warrants and proclamations for persons who
have been granted executive clemency; description of clemency
procedures contained in United States Attorney's Manual at § 1-2.110
et seq.; whether a specific individual has applied for executive
clemency and action on such application.
Major
Information Systems
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