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From EPIC: “The Transportation Security Administration has abandoned plans to use information from data aggregators to check airline passengers’ backgrounds. TSA made the decision shortly before a working group issued a scathing report (19 pages, PDF) on the program. Last year, an EPIC FOIA request revealed (4 pages, PDF) that Axciom proposed to water down …
“GPO is releasing three briefing papers and soliciting comments from the depository library community. Depository Selection: History and Current Practice is provided as background information for the other two papers. It provides an overview of the item number process in its current form. Depository Selection Mechanisms: New Model for the Selection of Online Titles proposes …
The legislative history of the Postal Rate Commission enabling statute is available on the agency website. To locate it, look at the top of the homepage navigation bar, and click on ARCHIVES. This in turn will take you to this page, where the database hosting the legislative history is located. In addition to this resource, …
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today several initiatives to aid in the recovery of original records in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina…[he stated] the potential loss of information that directly affects the lives of people in these states is staggering. The …
The September 14 launch of William M. Arkin’s blog, “Early Warning”, with its focus on “national and homeland security,” was noted by Secrecy News for establishing what promises to be a significant and useful online archive of government documents not readily available otherwise. See also Arkin’s book, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and …
“The Hurricane Katrina News Directory is a safety information initiative of SafetyIssues.com. Powered by Google News.” Related links: Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Still to be Learned, by Stephen Heath Thibeault, Media Reaction Editor, U.S. Department of State – “This report summarizes and interprets foreign editorial opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. …
Press release: “Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), the service that allows users to obtain case information online from federal courts, now has over 500,000 user accounts. The half-million figure was reached in early September.”
Today the members of the Commission on Federal Election Reform released the Final Commission Report: Building Confidence in U.S. Elections (113 pages, PDF). Individual sections of the report may be downloaded using this table of contents. Related links: Help America Vote Act beSpacific links on e-voting
Joshua Ruihley of Open CRS contacted me with this link for researchers to facilitate direct access to 35 Katrina related CRS reports that the site makes available for free. The Open CRS Network updates their database regularly, so make this a hot link for your research. See also the State Department’s new website on Hurricane …
AP reports on a bipartisan call from the House Intelligence Committee for the public release of the classified CIA IG report on the agency’s activities related to 9/11.
Hurricane Katrina: What you can do, by Mayo Clinic staff, includes resources in the following areas – The basics: Food and water; Protecting against disease; Managing a health condition; and Mental health. Related links: FDA Hurricane Katrina Recovery Update – Seafood Availability and Safety From Medline Plus: Guide to Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Resources National …
Social Security Numbers: Federal and State Laws Restrict Use of SSNs, yet Gaps Remain, GAO-05-1016T, September 15, 2005. Highlights.
