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D · Draft — not verified Each entry states where we looked. “Could not locate” means exactly that — it never means the record does not exist. How we verify →
This project runs on public records. These are the ones it has looked for and could not locate. Every entry here is also a finding: if a record this basic cannot be found, that is part of the story. When one is located, it graduates to the page that needs it, with the date.
If you know where any of these live, tell us. One pointer from one reader closes an item.
The list
1. The list of LGA-certified chapters
What it is. Which chapters hold Local Governance Act certification — the five-management-system status reviewed by the Auditor General under 26 N.N.C. § 102.
Why it matters. Certification changes what a chapter may do. Candidates are asked about it in nearly every interview. A Chapter Official 101 lesson is written and waiting on this one number.
Status. No public list could be located. It is a page on a website, and we could not find it.
2. The Department of Justice quarterly reports, indexed
What it is. DOJ quarterly reports exist and are public. No index of them could be located.
Why it matters. An unindexed public record is public in name only.
How to help. If you hold copies or know the office that files them, say so.
3. The NPEA quarterly filings, summarized
What it is. Employers file quarterly Navajo Preference in Employment Act reports with ONLR. No public summary of what those filings show could be located.
Why it matters. It is the Nation’s own measure of whether its employment law is working — collected, then unread.
4. Title 3 and Title 26, in print
What it is. Title 3 (grazing) and Title 26 (the Local Governance Act) were never printed in the published Code volumes.
Why it matters. Candidates are asked about grazing and chapters in most interviews; the governing law of both cannot be read in the published volume.
5. The Nation’s federal Single Audit reports, gathered in one place
What it is. Entities spending federal money above a threshold must file an annual independent audit with the Federal Audit Clearinghouse — a public, searchable federal database. The Nation’s and its entities’ filings should be there.
Why it matters. It may be the largest cache of already-public accountability records that nobody is reading. This one is likely findable — it is on the project’s own list to pull.
6. The source for 1,963 Navajo-owned businesses and 91,000+ working off the Nation
What it is. Cal Nez’s recurring figures, as spoken in his interviews. This project could not locate their public source.
Why it matters. They may be exactly right — and naming the source once would make them very hard to dismiss.
7. Plans of operation for the 638 entities and enterprise boards
What it is. The documents that say who appoints each board, what it must audit, what it must report, and whether the community has a formal say.
Why it matters. People cannot know what they control until the document that says so can be read. Where a plan is not published, that row stays open here.
8. The Navajo Privacy and Access to Information Act, in full text
What it is. The Act is named in 2 N.N.C. § 225 as the law under which public access to contracts and papers is provided. This project has read the section that names it; it has not yet located and read the Act itself in full.
Why it matters. It is very likely the Nation’s general records-access law — the legal spine under every letter on Request the record.
Know where one of these lives? Work in an office that holds one? Tell us what you’ve seen — read by a person, verified before anything is published.