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Refugees and Asylees: 2007 (PDF, 6 pages): “This report presents information on the number and characteristics of persons admitted as refugees or granted asylum to the United States in fiscal year 2007. Data on Refugees and Asylees: “Access data on persons admitted as refugees or granted asylum in fiscal year 2007 by several characteristics.”
“The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling striking down the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) that required Web operators to restrict access to large amounts of constitutionally protected speech. COPA placed severe restrictions on a wide range of legal, socially valuable speech, including content relating to sexual identity, …
Criminal Justice Resources: Sex Offender Residency Restrictions – Ken Strutin’s guide collects recent court decisions, research papers and reports that have addressed the efficacy of exclusionary zoning laws and the impact of these restrictions on sex offenders reentering their communities. Published July 20, 2008 E-Discovery Update: Lessons From An E-Discovery Disaster – Conrad J. Jacoby …
On June 20, 2008 the House passed H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Today the Senate passed the bill. Related commentary and articles as follows: ACLU: Senate Passes Unconstitutional Spying Bill And Grants Sweeping Immunity To Phone Companies New York Times: Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers WSJ Law Blog: “As the …
DHS OIG: ICE Policies Related to Detainee Deaths and the Oversight of Immigration Detention Facilities, June 2008: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement houses a daily average of 28,700 detainees in 353 facilities nationwide. Various types of detention facilities, such as service processing centers, contract detention facilities, and state and local jails, are used to house these …
2008 Data Mining Letter Report (PDF, 46 pages): “This is the third report by the Privacy Office to Congress on data mining. This letter report identifies the data mining activities deployed or under development within DHS, as defined by the Data Mining Reporting Act, and describes the framework the Department will use to report on …
Follow up to previous postings on the Arolsen Holocaust Archives in Germany, this report from AP: Scholars make finds in Nazi archive: “…15 scholars concluded a two-week probe Thursday of an untapped repository of millions of Nazi records, and hailed it as a rich vein of raw material that will deepen the study of the …
Bryn Nelson, MSNBC, Giving biometrics a hand: “An electronic palm reader is helping one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. and several banks in Japan divine the true identities of their patients and customers. The key? A near-infrared camera that captures each persons unique palm vein pattern, or template.”
Laptop Searches and Other Violations of Privacy Faced by Americans Returning from Overseas Travel, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, June 25, 2008. From the Statement of Senator Russ Feingold: “So the constitutional question we face today is this: When the government looks through the contents of your laptop, …
June 16, 2008 – Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA): What Is It, and How Might One Be Utilized In Iraq? June 16, 2008 – Boumediene v. Bush: Guantanamo Detainees’ Right to Habeas Corpus June 11, 2008 – Telework Legislation Pending in the 110th Congress: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Provisions June 10, 2008 – Walter Reed …
News release: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Jay Rockefeller (WV), Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chair Kit Bond (MO), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD), and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (MO) announced today that a bipartisan compromise has been agreed to that will modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The FISA Amendments Act, H.R. 6304 (114 …
“The World Information Access 2008 Report presents important trends in the distribution of information and communication technologies around the world. The 2008 WIA Report explores information access by looking at trends in the blogger arrests worldwide, diversity in the ownership of media assets in the 15 largest media markets in the Muslim world, and the …
