The White House will restart disclosing its visitor records as soon as President-elect Joe Biden takes office, announced Biden’s transition spokesman Jen Psaki on Friday.
The move is a move by President Donald Trump’s White House, which kept visitor records for the White House’s central offices, including the West Wing, privately. The Trump administration faced legal challenges to its position and agreed on a process in 2018 to allow the monthly publication of visitor records for some White House offices, including the Office of Administration and Budget and the office of the drug czar.
Trump-era policy has been criticized as a degradation of the transparency of the previous administration. Under President Barack Obama, the White House regularly archived and released visitor records from its headquarters.