Category «E-Government»

BJS Special Report: Violent Felons in Large Urban Counties

Violent Felons in Large Urban Counties (NCJ-205289), by Bureau of Justice Statistics’ statistician Brian A. Reaves. “Fifty-six percent of the violent felons convicted in the nation’s 75 most populous counties from 1990 through 2002 had a prior conviction record, 38 percent had a prior felony conviction and 15 percent had been previously convicted for a …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

HHS OIG Audit on Medicare Drug Discount Card Program Sponsor Public Sector Partners

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General –“Report on the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program Sponsor Public Sector Partners,” (A-06-05-00062) July 10, 2006 [HTML] [PDF] Executive Summary: “The objectives of our review were to determine whether Public Sector Partners (PSP) complied with Federal requirements to (1) ensure that beneficiaries did not exceed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

GAO Letter to Congress on TSA Secure Flight Program

Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight, Full text GAO-06-1051R, August 4, 2006. “This letter responds to Congress’s request for additional information related to Congress’s June 14, 2006, hearing on the progress and challenges of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Office of Intelligence. As discussed in the statement at …

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

Final Investigative Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff

Follow-up to August 1, 2006 posting, Findings of Upcoming Report on Administration Policies on WMD and NSA, see the Final Investigative Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff: The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance. (This Report is …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

GPO Takes Major Step Toward Creating Digital Information

GPO Takes Major Step Toward Creating Digital Information Management System Future Digital System (FDsys) Facts and Timeline The U.S. Government Printing Office encourages you to contribute information about your institution’s digitization projects containing U.S. Government publications to the Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Proposed Study to Compare Roles of Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers

SEC press release, August 1, 2006: “The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…issued a request for contract proposals to conduct the first stage of a major study comparing how the different regulatory systems that apply to broker-dealers and investment advisers affect investors. The full text of the RFP.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Securities Law