tri22By Davis Winkie
Friday, May 27
The Army Publishing Directorate had a publication status report publicly available from 2016 until April 7, 2022. It was put behind a CAC wall a week after an Army Times story that cited it to track an overdue suicide prevention regulation. (Screenshot/Army Publishing Directorate)
The Army blocked public access to a report on the status of forthcoming publications after Army Times referenced the report in an April 1 story on how the service has failed to publish a long-awaited regulation that will coordinate its suicide prevention programs.
The service initially announced it would create a dedicated suicide prevention regulation in 2020. In September 2021, the Army said it would publish that fall. Then, in November 2021, the Army said it would come “in the first quarter of 2022.”
The Army Publishing Directorate fiscal 2022 publication status report, which was publicly available at the time, said on April 1 that the 90-page draft regulation was due on March 22. But it hadn’t yet published.
An Army spokesperson later confirmed the regulation would be delayed until the summer of 2022.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/05/27/army-locked-public-report-after-story-on-overdue-suicide-regulation/
