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Following up on my September 1 posting, Will Librarian Go To Prison Over Patriot Act Challenge?, see this September 9 press release from the ACLU: “A federal judge today ruled that the FBI must lift a gag that is preventing an organization with library records from participating in the Patriot Act debate. The opinion comes …
National Archives Announces Advisory Committee for Electronic Records Archives NARA press release, September 8, 2005: “Today, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced the award of a $308 million, six year contract to Lockheed Martin to build the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The ERA system …
FEMA chief relieved of Katrina duties – Move follows controversy over Brown’s qualifications, agencys response Related links: Discrepancies Found on FEMA Head’s History Casualty of Firestorm: Outrage, Bush and FEMA Chief (NY Times)
Homeland Security’s CTO Says Katrina Was A ‘Failure’ Of Incident Response: “Telecommunications problems, power outages, and slowness to update the department Web site contributed to delays getting aid to people who needed it, says Lee Holcomb, CTO of the Department of Homeland Security.”
House Unanimously Approves Hurricane Katrina Emergency Courts Legislation (H.R. 3650) – “Bill authorizes federal courts to conduct business outside of geographic domains during emergency.” This bill was signed by the President on September 9. 2005.
Federal Computer Week reported that the government’s weather forecasting capabilities in the areas impacted by Katrina have been significantly impaired due to the severe damage sustained to the majority of its partner, WeatherBug Network’s, facilities. Related links: Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina Future of Free Access to Net Weather Data In …
Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead Related links
Google press release: Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist Interview: Cerf Discusses His Jump To Google Cerf’s Up for Google – Its hiring of Net luminary Vint Cerf signals it may be plotting a stronger push into VoIP and other Web-based telecommunications.
From the Hill.com: “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) yesterday announced that they are setting up a bipartisan, bicameral committee to review the governments response to Hurricane Katrina, despite the strong reservations or outright opposition from several GOP lawmakers.” From Sen. Harry Reid’s floor statement today: “An investigation of …
From LexisNexis: “As a service to anyone who needs ready and free access to breaking and archived news on Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath, LexisNexis has expanded its free online news site (LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News) to include in-depth coverage of all aspects of this event and ongoing remediation efforts. Visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/ to …
A new website was launched by the Congressional information services company Gallerywatch.com, called USCongress.com. The site, whose content and sources will expand in upcoming weeks and months, is already a significant resource for government documents on a wide range of issues associated with Katrina, both before the disaster and its aftermath. The site is focused …
From the Wall Street Journal, a free Hurricane Katrina Crisis News Tracker (scroll to bottom of page for chronological links beginning on September 1), updated throughout the day, provides brief entries with associated links on issues that include: the disaster’s impact on all sectors of the country; personal stories of loss and recovery; local, state, …
