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Strategic Plan FY 2007-2012 (PDF) – “This strategic plan establishes our vision and seeks to provide a roadmap for OIG to provide a worthy return on the United States taxpayers’ investment.” Semiannual Report to Congress FY2007 – First Half – No. 57 (PDF) Major Management Challenges (August 2007) (PDF)
2007-40-125 Taxpayer Service Savings Estimates for Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007 Could Not Be Validated, Report Date: 08/13/2007 >>Audit Highlights: PDF | HTML >> Audit Reports: PDF | HTML 2007-20-117 Efforts Have Been Made, but Manager and Employee Noncompliance With Security Policies and Procedures Puts Personally Identifiable Information at Risk, Report Date: 08/13/2007 >>Audit Highlights: …
INTERIM REPORT, Hurricane Katrina: A Review of Wind Versus Flood Issues, OIG-07-62 (PDF, 25 pages) – New 08/13/2007 Better Management Needed for the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System Program, OIG-07-61 (PDF, 38 pages) – New 08/13/2007 Improvements to Information Sharing are Needed to Facilitate Law Enforcement Efforts During Disasters, OIG-07-60 (PDF, 51 pages) – New 08/13/2007 …
Trends in Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure, 1956 to 2004, August 2007 [37 pages, PDF] and Data Files [WebAppendix.pdf >> TableB-2.xls >> SupplementalTables.xls]
D-2007-115 Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services Contract (August 9, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AS-0173.000) PDF and Summary D-2007-114 DoD Garnishment Program (July 19, 2007) (Project D2005-D000FC-0264.000) PDF and Summary: “Active, reserve, and retired military and Federal civilian employees have pay garnished to pay personal and commercial debts…During FY 2005, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Garnishment …
“The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has released two best practices guidebooks to help election officials recruit, train, and retain poll workers. [See] Successful Practices for Poll Worker Recruitment, Training and Retention and A Guidebook for Recruiting College Poll Workers.”
The Defense Freedom of Information Policy Office (DFOIPO) is responsible for the formulation and implementation of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy guidance for the Department of Defense (DoD) OSD/JS FOIA Requester Service Center Reading Rooms
Freedom and Information: Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security, August 8, 2007: “This report concerns the feasibility of obtaining information relevant to planning terrorist attacks from publicly available sources. To the extent that such information is available, it is particularly valuable to terrorist planners in that it can generally be obtained at …
On-the-Record Briefing On the Release of a Comprehensive New U.S. Government Implementation Plan to Control Narcotics in Afghanistan, August 9, 2007, Department of State. U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, August 2007, Compiled by the Coordinator for Counternarcotics and Justice Reform in Afghanistan, Ambassador Thomas A. Schweich, U.S. …
Understanding Privacy — and the Real Threats to It, August 4, 2007 (20 pages, PDF), by Jim Harper, the editor of Privacilla.org and director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute. Executive Summary: “Properly defined, privacy is the subjective condition people experience when they have power to control information about themselves. Because privacy is …
UK House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee, 5th Report of Session 2006-2007: Personal Internet Security, August 10, 2007 (121 pages, PDF) “e-crime and the internet – Lords Science and Technology Committee calls for incentives, regulation and investment to tackle internet crime: The Internet is a powerful force for good: within 20 years it has …
AP: “Of the 12 states in the Northeast and Midwest that are part of the E-ZPass system, agencies in seven states provide electronic toll information in response to court orders in criminal and civil cases, including divorces, according to an Associated Press survey.”
