Category «Civil Liberties»

EPIC – Solicitor General to Supreme Court: Review GPS Tracking Cases

“The Solicitor General filed a petition with the Supreme Court about the growing dispute in the federal courts over warrantless locational tracking. There is a split among the appellate court about GPS tracking by police agencies. The petition appeals a decision from the DC Circuit which held that the warrantless tracking of a motor vehicle …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research, Privacy

EDPS opinion on EU Financial Regulation: EU budget needs clear rules on transparency, also to protect individuals' personal data

“On 15 April 2011, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted an opinion on the Commission’s proposal aimed at revising the financial rules applicable to the annual budget of the European Union (“EU Financial Regulation”). The proposal covers several matters which involve the processing of personal data by the EU institutions and by entities at …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Privacy

White House Releases National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, Enhancing Online Choice, Efficiency, Security, and Privacy – April 2011 “A secure cyberspace is critical to our prosperity 1 We use the Internet and other online environments to increase our productivity, as a platform for innovation, and as a venue in which to create new businesses “Our digital …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

National Archives Announces Newly-Identified Papers of Walt Whitman

Famous poet’s writings as a Federal employee shed new light on his life and work: “The National Archives today announced the identification of nearly 3,000 Walt Whitman documents written during his service as a Federal government employee. This trove of information–conclusively identified as Whitman’s papers for the first time by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scholar …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Announcing HumanRights.gov

“Last week, in conjunction with the release of its annual Human Rights Report, the State Department officially launched HumanRights.gov, a new central portal for international human rights-related information generated by the United States Government. HumanRights.gov was designed in the letter and spirit of President Obama’s Open Government Directive issued in January 2009, requiring Federal agencies …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government

State Department: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010

2010 Human Rights Report, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, released April 8, 2011 “This report provides encyclopedic detail on human rights conditions in over 190 countries for 2010. Because we are publishing this report three months into the new year, however, our perspectives on many issues are now framed by the dramatic changes …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents

Advice for the U.S. Sentencing Commissioners: The Relevance of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Its Literature

“This short essay will be part of an issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter devoted to recommended action for the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The present essay calls attention to the relevance of therapeutic jurisprudence to the sentencing function. It looks at some legal rules and guidelines that do not effectively motivate convicted persons to focus …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Vice President Biden Announces New Administration Effort to Help Nation's Schools Address Sexual Violence

News release: “Today, Vice President Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan introduced comprehensive guidance to help schools, colleges and universities better understand their obligations under federal civil rights laws to prevent and respond to the problem of campus sexual assault. The new guidance, announced at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties

Amnesty International – Death Penalty in 2010: Executing countries left isolated after decade of progress

News release: “Countries which continue to use the death penalty are being left increasingly isolated following a decade of progress towards abolition, Amnesty International has said today in its new report Death Sentences and Executions in 2010. A total of 31 countries abolished the death penalty in law or in practice during the last 10 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research

DOJ Releases Redacted Draft Version – Striving for Accountability in Aftermarth of Holocaust

The Office of Special Investigations: Striving for Accountability in the Aftermarth of the Holocaust, by Judy Feigin, Edited by Mark M Richard, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice Criminal Division, December 2008 “[T]he Holocaust is one of those few issues that the more distant we are from it, the larger it looms. Each …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

EEOC Announces Final Bipartisan Regulations for the ADA Amendments Act

EEOC fact sheets about the law and new regulations: EEOC – The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 EEOC press release: EEOC Announces Final Bipartisan Regulations for the ADA Amendments Act Federal Register: Regulations To Implement the Equal Employment Provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, as Amended [via Ohio Legal Rights Service]

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research