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According to Mary Alice Baish, Associate Washington Affairs Representative, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), there are more than 30 organizations who support providing public access to all CRS reports on the Internet. Please see Senate Resolution 54, submitted by Senators Leahy, Lieberman, and Harkin, “…to make Congressional Research Service, CRS, reports, and other Senate …
The National Journal reports that opposition to the government’s Total Information Awareness Project continues to gain momentum. Sen. Ron Wyden, who spearheaded a bill to limit spending on the program, spoke this week with a coalition of advocacy groups including the ACLU, in an effort to ensure that the upcoming conference report will adopt the …
Palo Alto California’s Mayor Dena Mossar announced a settlement of lawsuits brought against the City Council by The Palo Alto Weekly and the San Jose Mercury News concerning e-mail correspondence that was not disclosed to the public. The Council held a closed door meeting on October 30, 2002 during which time they disseminated e-mail concerning …
GPO Access recently made available The Privacy Act Issuances, 1995, 1997 1999, and 2001 Compilations Online. The fully searchable database uses a template to enter information in the following fields: Full text of the Privacy Act Notices, Agency, System Number, or System Name, and also supports Boolean searching. The data entails “descriptions of Federal agency …
EPIC announced it filed an amicus brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court in Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms v. City of Chicago. The case involves the Freedom of Information Act and privacy issues related to witholding data on the illegal purchase of firearms in the city. See this EPIC page …
To save printing costs of approximately $50,000, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced that the new state budget will be available in only one format, online. For those citizens with no access to the Internet, the governor’s office recommended using public library access.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit posted the following statement: “As of February 4, 2003, opinions are available as PDF documents to better represent the formatting of the printed slip opinion.” Thanks to Donna Cavallini for the link.
Electronic Government: Progress in Promoting Adoption of Smart Card Technology. GAO-03-144, January 3. Highlights in PDF.
Recent postings on the ABA SOLOSEZ listserv highlighted two useful resources for state law research, each compiled by members. From Bob Ambrogi, State Laws On The Internet, and from Frank J. Kautz II, A Directory of States that includes links to: state homepages, state courts, state statutes, state bar homepages, state consumer protection resources, and …
The 2004 Budget was sent to Congress on February 3, 2003 and is available in PDF, either in five downloadable chapters, or as a single file. It covers the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2003. Also available are Supporting Documents and a List of Spreadsheets (in XLS format).
In a follow-up to my recent post on fraud in the library/school E-Rate fund, a preliminary investigation has now been launched, at the direction of House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman W.J. “Billy” Tauzin. Tauzin is a vocal critic of the program, and through his spokesman stated, “Schools are hooked up to the Internet …
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the Educational Research Center of America, Inc. stating the company had “collected personal information from high school and middle and junior high school students through surveys,” and used this data “to create lists of students that it sells to commercial entities for use in marketing.” A copy …
