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“Summary: NARA is revising our regulations to provide for the appropriate management and disposition of very short-term temporary e-mail, by allowing agencies to manage these records within the e-mail system.” Federal Register, February 21, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 34)] [Rules and Regulations][Page 8806-8808].
National Security Archive press release: “The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Matthew Aid, author …
Pacer press release: “In the spirit of the E-Government Act of 2002, modifications have been made to the District Court CM/ECF system to provide PACER customers with access to written opinions free of charge. The modifications also allow PACER customers to search for written opinions using a new report that is free of charge. Written …
“GPO Access is providing a link to a preprint version of “A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina” that is hosted on the servers of the Committee. Users should note that this version is not final and is subject to changes …
M-06-06, Sample Privacy Documents for Agency Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 (February 17, 2006) Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 – Policies for Federal Agency Websites The sample privacy documents (Word)
“The Business Plan for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)…combines the Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2006 through 2011 and Performance Plan for fiscal year 2006….The FDIC OIG is an independent and objective unit established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (IG Act). The OIG’s …
They Havent Got Mail – The Katrina hearings havent only revealed critical information about White House responses to the hurricane. Theyve also uncovered the online secrets of Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff: “…congressional investigations of government responses to Hurricane Katrina have revealed that two of the nation’s key crisis managers, the secretaries of Defense and …
Press release, Association for Computing Machinery, February 16, 2006: “Citing the danger of voter fraud and disenfranchisement from poorly implemented databases, a committee of experts commissioned by USACM released a report today making almost 100 recommendations to state and local officials charged with creating and managing statewide voter registration databases (VRDs). The report is a …
Disaster Preparedness: Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Hospitals and Nursing Homes Due to Hurricanes, GAO-06-443R, February 16, 2006. “During disasters, administrators of health care facilities are faced with decisions about how to operate and care for patients, including when and how to evacuate patients if the facility becomes unable to support adequate care, treatment, …
FTC press release: “The primary reforms to the merger review process establish presumptions that the FTC will: (1) limit the number of employees required to provide information in response to a second request, provided the party complies with specified conditions; (2) reduce the time period for which a party must provide documents in response to …
Follow-up to a series of recent postings on the growing controversy concerning NASA’s policy to limit public access to accurate scientific documents on global warming. New York Times – Call for Openness at NASA Adds to Reports of Pressure: “Top political appointees in the NASA press office exerted strong pressure during the 2004 presidential campaign …
DHS Has Not Implemented An Information Security Program for Its Intelligence Systems (Unclassified Summary) (PDF, 3 pages), 2/16/2006.
