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The 2006 Best of the Web and Digital Government Achievement Awards includes a list and links to all sites that were won awards, as well as finalists. Below is a sampling of information about specific categories: Winner in the State Portal Category: Michigan County Portal Category: 1st Place – Seminole County, Florida City Portal Category: …
August 30, 2006: “NIST is proud to announce the release of Special Publication 800-88, Guidelines for Media Sanitization. This guide is intended to assist organizations and system owners in making practical sanitization decisions based on the type of information on their system media. It does not, and cannot, specifically address all known types of media …
CBO Testimony on the Budgetary Impact of Current and Proposed Border Security and Immigration Policies, August 30, 2006 Related postings on immigration issues
New LC Country Profile of Iraq, August 2006.
Bureau of Justice Statistics press release: “The number of suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system grew substantially during the 10-year period of 1994 to 2003, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. U.S. federal prosecutors investigated more than 130,000 suspects during 2003 (a new record), up from 99,000 …
EPA-350-R-06-002 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal 2005 (PDF, 19 pages), August 2006.
Govexec.com: E-Gov at Five Years, Part Two: Waiting for Success, by Daniel Pulliam. “Several of the technology projects are outright success stories, genuinely improving federal services online and easing their delivery…But others are stagnating under agency resistance, legal challenges and congressional concern.”
Press release: “FDA Takes Close Look at Experience Gained from Regulations Allowing Emergency Research With An Exception from Informed Consent Requirements.” “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a close look at the implementation of its 1996 regulation, 21 CFR 50.24, which allows clinical emergency research when informed consent cannot be obtained. This federal …
Press release: “One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the greater New Orleans area, local schools and colleges still have not received the leadership and resources they need from the federal government to truly recover, according to a new report released today by Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the …
Press release: “The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, today released a report and policy proposals, concluding that two of the most commonly purchased electronic voting systems today are better at recording voter intentions than older systems like the punchcard system used in Florida in 2000. At the same time the report …
Press release, August 28, 2006: “Nearly one year has passed since Hurricane Katrina’s landfall wrought havoc on the Gulf Coast, however, a new report issued by the Democratic Members on the U.S. House Committee Homeland Security finds that the nation is not much more prepared to effectively protect our communities and respond to catastrophic emergencies…The …
USPTO press release, August 28, 2006: “To improve the tracking and disposition of amendments and requests for corrections to trademark applications submitted after publication, the Office is providing the following recommended procedures. Once an application has been approved for publication by the examining attorney, all amendments and requests for corrections are processed as amendments/corrections after …
