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The Office of Personnel Management launched its redesigned website on October 14. From the main page, users will find quick links to federal forms, news & events, HR tools and resources, OPM publications, and e-gov initiatives.
Social Security Administration: Actions Taken to Strengthen Procedures for Issuing Social Security Numbers to Noncitizens, but Some Weaknesses Remain. GAO-04-12, October 15. Highlights.
I don’t really know how to classify this story, but it just had to be shared: From nbc4.com: An elderly passenger was stopped at Reagan Washington National Airport Tuesday after security screeners found a sword hidden in his cane. The sword is 20 inches long.”
The Center for Digital Government announced that from 216 jurisdictions considered, the state of Utah, Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. represented the best examples of e-gov portal services. Also included in this announcement are links to other Best of the Web winners in various categories.
This press release from New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson announces the implementation of E-Library Services, which will “enable viewing all agency reports that are generated by the States budget, financial and human resource computer systems. All such reports will be viewable in a web-browser by authorized users. The e-Info Library Services will be an official …
Food imports require electronic notice: “Beginning Dec. 12, companies importing food into the United States will have to electronically notify the Food and Drug Administration beforehand.”
Web Sites Listed as ‘Terror’ Groups: See Executive Order 12947: Prohibiting Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process; January 23, 1995, as amended by Executive Order 13099. The respective Federal Register notices from October 10 that list the websites are here and here.
FirstGov en Español, with an official launch date of October 16, will be the federal government’s first Spanish language portal. The site appears to be fully functional now.
From Secrecy News: “In a new retreat from public oversight, the Department of Defense has blocked public access to the online database of DoD directives maintained by the Defense Technical Information Center. These unclassified DoD directives, which define nearly every aspect of Department policy and procedure, have been publicly available online for almost as long …
From Reuters: “Telemarketers may not dial the 51 million phone numbers on the national “do-not-call” list while a U.S. appeals court decides whether their free-speech rights are being violated, the court said on Tuesday.” Statement from the FTC: Court Rules FTC Can Proceed with Do Not Call Registry See also this resource on the Do …
From the FCC’s new Environmental and Historic Preservation website: The FCC has specific responsibilities pursuant to the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and other related statutes to evaluate the impact of its actions on the quality of the human environment. NEPA requires agencies of the Federal Government to evaluate …
“In comments filed September 30 on the government’s proposed “Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System” (CAPPS II), CDT argued that use of the system to enforce ordinary criminal arrest warrants would dilute its effectiveness and increase the risk of error and privacy intrusion. CDT recommended a series of privacy limits and procedural safeguards to get CAPPS …
