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Oversight Committee Investigation of Use of RNC E-Mail Accounts by White House Officials

Administration Oversight, White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts: “The Oversight Committee has been investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act by using e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Cheney ‘04 campaign for official White House communications. This interim staff report provides a summary of the evidence …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

USPTO Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation

Press release: “Peer-to-Patent, an initiative of New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), began on Friday of last week. In an Official Gazette Notice published on June 6, 2007, the USPTO announced that this pilot program to test the value of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

Government Information Division Posts Presentations from SLA Conference

Government Information Division, 2007 Annual Conference Recaps Denver, Colorado, June 3-6, 2007: “The Government Information Division will be recapping all its sponsored and co-sponsored events. In addition, DGI will offer recaps of other events that impact government information. This page will be updated as new recaps are made available.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Report of Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007

An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007 (100 pages, PDF) Related news and government documents: Washington Post, June 17, 2007 – The War Inside – Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult, by …

Subjects: Government Documents

Public Interest Group Launches Searchable Farm Bill 2007 Database

Press release: “For decades, American taxpayers have provided tens of billions of dollars in federal farm subsidies to some of the largest and wealthiest farm businesses in the nation. But thousands of people who benefited from the subsidy flow were shielded from public view behind layers of partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability corporations, cooperatives, and …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research, Legislation

OMB Issues New Guidelines for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Information

Press release: OMB Issues New Guidelines for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Information (June 15, 2007) Implementation Guidance for Title V of the E-Government Act, Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. ACTION: Notice of decision. Federal Register: June 15, 2007 …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Sunlight Foundation Launches Search Engine for Federal Documents

June 14, 2007 press release: “The Sunlight Foundation today launched a new search engine called LOUIS – the Library Of Unified Information Sources – to improve public access to federal documents through an all-inclusive, catalogued and cross-referenced collection of official documents from the executive and legislative branches of government…LOUIS makes it easy to search from …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Search Engines