(2023-0128-F Segment 2) Alejandro N. Mayorkas

11 folders, approximately 116 pages

This collection consists of records related to Alejandro N. Mayorkas. In 1998, Mayorkas was nominated by President Clinton to be United States Attorney for the Central District of California. Mayorkas served in that position until January 2001 when he left government service for a private law office. From 1989 to 1998 Mayorkas served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California.

The materials in FOIA 2023-0128-F are the totality of records related to the topic. Researchers should consult the archivist about related material. This request was for records related to Alejandro N. Mayorkas. In 1998, Mayorkas was nominated by President Clinton to be United States Attorney for the Central District of California. Mayorkas served in that position until January 2001 when he left government service for a private law office. From 1989 to 1998 Mayorkas served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California. Mayorkas was born in Cuba in 1959 and was brought to the United States by his parents in 1960. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School. Records to be opened in this collection include correspondence, resumes, a press release announcing Mayorkas 1998 nomination, and press articles relating to the duties of Mayorkas as United States Attorney.

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Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton Presidential Records: White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Files; Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files; and Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]. The White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) contains a variety of series created to organize and track documents and correspondence. The WHORM Alpha file was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management from 1993 – 1996 and is a series of documents arranged by name of persons, organizations, or events. The WHORM Subject file was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management and is a series of categories designated by a letter/number combination. In addition, there are WHORM, WHORM Counsel, WHORM (CL), WHORM (OP), WHORM (Too Late); WHORM (Various Offices); and WHORM (Alpha Project) series. White House Staff and Office Files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their individual offices and documents all levels of administrative activity. WHORM files are processed at the document level; whereas, Staff and Office Files are processed at the folder level, that is, individual documents are not selected and removed from a folder for processing. While this method maintains folder integrity, it frequently results in the incidental processing of documents that are not wholly responsive to the subject area. The Automated Records Management System (ARMS) was a database that contained email records of the Executive Office of the President. This system held, and allowed access to, unclassified Presidential email. The ARMS database was comprised of seven sub-series of email records called "buckets." The buckets generally represented a specific White House office. The buckets were titled: NPR for National Performance Review, NSC for National Security Council, OPD for Office of Policy Development, POTUS for President of the United States, WHO for White House Office, CEA for Council of Economic Advisers, and Default for emails not associated with an office. In 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration transferred the majority of Clinton ARMS and TRP records to a records management and access system called ERA. This changed the processing of ARMS and TRP records. For technical reasons, however, NSC emails remained in their own bucket. NSC ARMS emails are arranged by bucket, there-under by topic, and there-under chronologically by creation date. FOIA 2023-0128-F (Segment 2) includes WHORM records from these subject codes: FG017-08 United States Attorneys PE002-01 Schedule C Appointments.

Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions.

Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Staff Archivist, 2023. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.

The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2023-0128-F (Segment 2):
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File
FG017-08 263483
FG017-08 282546
FG017-08 301959SS
PE002-01 419597
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Presidential Personnel
Brackett, Lee Ann
Mayorkas, Alejandro [OA/ID 19602]
De La Garza, Veronica
Mayorkas, Alejandro N. [OA/ID 18341]
General Files
Mayorkas, Alejandro Nicholas [OA/ID 19644]
Koh, Phillip
Mayorkas, Alejandro [OA/ID 19303]
Przeworski, Bethany
Folder #1 [Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas] [OA/ID 11642]
Folder #6 [Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas] [OA/ID 11643]
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]
NSC [OA/ID 1200000]
[Mayorkas]
[12/17/1998-09/06/2000]