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USNews.com: Finding out what Uncle Sam has on you: “The U.S. Freedom of Information Act is approaching its 40th birthday. Given that March 12 begins national Sunshine Weekan effort to cast light onto the growing recesses of government secrecyU.S. News is providing links so its readers can file requests for federal records under the FOIA …
Declan McCullagh reported that NORAD orders Web deletion of transcript: “In an unusual follow-up to a public event, the Defense Department has ordered that a transcript of an open hearing on aviation restrictions be yanked from the Web.” North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) See also Current Administration Classifying Documents at Unprecedented Rate and the …
National Security Archive press release: “The Justice Department official who oversaw national security matters from 2000 to 2003 e-mailed his former colleagues after revelation of the controversial warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005 that the Department’s justifications for the program were “weak” and had a “slightly after-the-fact quality” to them, and surmised that this reflected …
Telecommunications: States’ Collection and Use of Funds for Wireless Enhanced 911 Services. Full text, GAO-06-338, March 10, 2006: Highlights Survey on State Wireless E911 Funds. Full text, GAO-06-400SP, March 10, 2006
The Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Audit Report 06-13, [Redacted] March 2006 (PDF) Executive Summary: “Criminal organizations and individuals frequently use the telecommunications systems of the United States to further serious violent crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, organized crime, drug trafficking, and public corruption. One of the most effective tools law …
Press release [note – includes links to specific reports organized by hemisphere and country]: “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, and section 504 of the Trade Act of …
Election Reform: Nine States’ Experiences Implementing Federal Requirements for Computerized Statewide Voter Registration Lists, February 7, 2006. [Full Text | Highlights] “The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was enacted in part to help ensure that only eligible persons are registered to vote. Under HAVA, as of January 1, 2004, states were to create …
“The Superintendent of Documents is pleased to announce the launch of the enhanced version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office’s (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of the new CGP Phase 1 of …
Executive Order 13397–Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security With Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives [Federal Register: March 9, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 46)][Presidential Documents] [Page 12273-12276] By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal …
Press release: FTC Retains Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule Without Changes – “The Federal Trade Commission today announced its decision to retain, without changes, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule, which implements the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. In a Federal Register notice to be published soon, the Commission will present its findings …
Developed by the British Standards Institution, and reported yesterday by the Disability Rights Commission: “Key guidance on how to develop a website which is user-friendly for disabled people has been launched today.” “The DRC report, The Web: Access and Inclusion for Disabled People was published in April 2004. It investigated the accessibility of 1,000 British …
From the Economic Research Service, USDA: Government Patenting and Technology Transfer, by Paul W. Heisey, John L. King, Kelly Day Rubenstein, and Robbin Shoemaker, Economic Research Report No. (ERR15) 60 pp, March 2006. “This report examines the use of intellectual property rights in Federal technology transfer, focusing primarily on the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). ARS …
