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As I reported in November, the USPTO has undertaken an ambitious plan to transition to a paperless public access system. However, this new agency announcement indicates that there is now a greater understanding of the tremendous challenges inherent in this project, and the need to ensure that paper copies continue to be available to prevent …
The American Library Association provides a guide to key provisions of the E-Government Act that impact public access to government documents. The act was passed by both the House and Senate on November 15, 2002. References: H.R. 2458, P.L. 107-347, E-Government Act of 2002 (Dec. 17, 2002; 116 Stat. 2899; 72 pages).
The Poytner Institute school for journalism maintains a range of excellent resources that are of interest to legal researchers. A recent example is their annotated list of government and academic sources for crime statistics.
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, issued a press release on December 2 stating its plan to implement a new e-filing and case management system in February 2003.
If you are interested in the President’s e-government plan, this OPM site provides an overview of the E-Clearance, E-Payroll, Enterprise Human Resources Initiative, E-Training and Recruitment One-Stop projects, including objectives, current status and future milestones.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has published an E-Government Handbook, conceived as a global resource on how to implement technology applications to best serve the needs of citizens by making information easily and readily available online.
The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (“ESIGN”) went into effect on October 1, 2000. It provides that digital signatures are legally valid for use in commercial and government documents. However, compliance with the law has been slow at best, as courts and agencies such as the EPA continue to seek exemptions from …
The Center for Governmental Studies published the Electronic Filing and Disclosure Survey, 2002 Update, which is a 27 page report in PDF, encompassing answers to 23 questions. The document includes data from the federal government, 50 states, and six Canadian provinces. Virtually all of the jurisdictions surveyed provide online campaign finance, lobbyist and personal financial …
This site is nothing to write home about in terms of the design and graphical interface, but it certainly merits your visit for the useful resources it provides. The National Freedom of Information Coalition, a non-profit that received funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , has compiled an online guide to …
The California state government learned the hard way the repercussions of not acting swiftly to respond to, secure and disclose that employee personal data was comprised by a wide scale database hacking operation in April 2002. Fast forward, and their legislature is now the first in the country to pass a law to prevent the …
The Federal Times chronicles the many challenges that have been posed to the successful implementation of e-government initiatives over the course of the past six years, in this article: E-Government Still Unplugged: Projects Short-Circuited by Infighting, Resistance.
The Software Information Industry Association (SIAA) issued a press release supporting the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision to remove the free PubSCIENCE database from the web. Users are now redirected to the DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) site to conduct journal searches. The SIALL argued for the removal of PubSCIENCE due to …
