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Released by ACLU: Evaluation of the Current and Future Los Angeles County Jail Population – Prepared by James Austin, Ph.D., Wendy Naro‐Ware, Roger Ocker, Robert Harris, Robin Allen – April 10, 2012 “This report is designed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the Los Angles County jail population in terms of its attributes, current and …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “Very timely IRS show that a special government effort claiming to target “global high wealth” individuals — including those with assets or incomes in the tens of millions of dollars — completed audits on only 36 reporting income of $1 million or more in the nearly two and a half years …
News release: “Two years after opening its vast storehouse of data to the public, the World Bank is consolidating more than 2,000 books, articles, reports and research papers in a search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, and allowing the public to distribute, reuse and build upon much of its workincluding commercially. The repository, launched today, is …
Salience vs. Commitment: Dynamics of Political Hashtags in Russian Twitter by Vladimir Barash and John Kelly “Building off our recent mapping of Russian Twitter, in this paper we analyze the dynamics of political hashtags representing a range of political issues and big news stories–from terrorist bombings, to pro-government issues, to topics preferred by the opposition. …
News release: Worldwide media tablet sales to end users are forecast to total 118.9 million units in 2012, a 98 percent increase from 2011 sales of 60 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. Apple’s iOS continues to be the dominant media tablet operating system (OS), as it is projected to account for 61.4 percent of …
The New Ambiguity of ‘Open Government’ – Harlan Yu, David G. Robinson, Forthcoming in UCLA Law Review Discourse – Princeton CITP / Yale ISP Working Paper Open government used to carry a hard political edge: it referred to politically sensitive disclosures of government information. The phrase was first used in the 1950s, in the debates …
CRS – The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Authorization, Operation, and Drawdown Policy. Anthony Andrews – Specialist in Energy and Defense Policy, Robert Pirog, Specialist in Energy Economics, April 2, 2012 “Congress authorized the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to help prevent a repetition of the economic disruption caused …
“A very high portion of the seafood we eat comes from abroad, mainly from China and Southeast Asia, and most of the active ingredients in medicines we take originate in other countries. Many low and middle income countries have lower labor costs and fewer and less stringent environmental regulations than the United States, making them …
Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress – R. Eric Petersen, Specialist in American National Government; Jennifer E. Manning, Information Research Specialist; Christina M. Bailey, Information Research Specialist, March 29, 2012 “Congress established the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to provide free public access to federal government information. The programs origins date to 1813; the …
Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs Financial Problems – N. Eric Weiss, Specialist in Financial Economics, April 2, 2012 “The continuing conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at a time of uncertainty in the housing, mortgage, and financial markets has raised doubts about the future of these enterprises, which are chartered by Congress as government-sponsored …
