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There is no contact form on this site and no newsletter. Nothing you write is entered into a customer system, and writing to us does not put you on a list.

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Corrections are read and acted on. A figure stated here without the regulation that sets it is a defect worth reporting even if the figure turns out to be right.

Where to go instead

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Response expectations

Mail is read. It will not always get an individual reply — the time is better spent fixing the page than answering correspondence about it — and nothing here is a support channel for your own case. A correction that lands is worth more than a reply saying it did.

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An independent site about FBI Identity History Summaries — what the two routes to obtaining one actually require, and how the answer changes with where you are. Figures here are traced to 28 CFR Part 16, Subpart C.

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