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The following data was posted on September 10, 2006: Trends in violent victimizations, 1973-2005: “Since 1994, violent crime rates have declined, reaching the lowest level ever in 2005.” Trends in property crime victimizations, 1973-2005: “Property crime rates continue to decline.” Criminal Victimization, 2005 (NCJ-214644), by BJS statistician Shannan M. Catalano (PDF version and Spreadsheets – …
Follow-up to previous posting, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (S. 2590) unanimously passed the Senate on the evening of September 7. POGO reported “that Sens. Stevens (R-AK) and Byrd (D- WV) lifted their secret holds on the bill.” Update: September 13, 2006 House floor debate on the Act, via FAS
Fact Sheet: Protecting the Homeland Post September 11: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken significant action to improve the nations security since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. By improving security measures for the nations aviation system, implementing measures designed to protect our critical infrastructure, using biometrics to establish and verify identity, …
House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security Democrats –Real Security: A Plan to Fulfill the 9/11 Commission Recommendations (23 pages, PDF)
Summary of Final Rule: “The Department of State is updating the regulations implementing 1 U.S.C. 112a and 112b in order to reflect amendments to the statutes governing publication of U.S. international agreements and their transmittal to the Congress. It will not be publishing certain categories of international agreements in the compilation entitled “United States Treaties …
House Republicans Shortchange America’s Workers – A State-by-State Report, September 7, 2006 (60 pages, PDF).
Information Technology: Improvements Needed to More Accurately Identify and Better Oversee Risky Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars, Full-text GAO-06-1099T, and Highlights, September 7, 2006. “As a result of the Management Watch List and high risk projects processes, about 300 projects totaling about $12 billion in estimated IT expenditures for fiscal year 2007 have been identified …
9/11 Five Years Later: Successes and Challenges, September 2006 (23 pages, PDF) From the BBC, these related documents and resources: How 9/11 changed America: In statistics – “Five years after the 11 September attacks, how has America changed? Click through these graphs to explore long-term trends in selected aspects of life. We include the five …
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives: “The new NDI program will reduce redundancies in declassification review, will promote accurate and consistent declassification decisions, will improve equity recognition across the declassification community, develop centralized priorities and management controls around the priorities, and make the declassification process more transparent to the public.” Related postings on …
Press release: “Today Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), joined by representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and The Cato Institute, released its report, Border Security: PASS Card Fails on Cost, Privacy.” See also State Department Begins Issuing E-Passports
U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive – Definitions, Treatment Policy, and Compliance with Laws of War, September 5, 2006 Related government documents from Office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI): Information on the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, September 6, 2006 Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees, September 1, 2006
Press release: “More than half of all prison and jail inmates, including 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners and 64 percent of local jail inmates, were found to have a mental health problem, according to a new study published today by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).” Mental Health …
