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Via LLRX.com – FOIA Facts: Funding FOIA: Scott A. Hodes contends that reducing FOIA Operations any further is the wrong way to go if the objectives of increasing government transparency are to be pursued. The actual process of searching for records in response to FOIA requests and processing those requests requires human interaction – in …
“As the flagship initiative of the Departments Open Government Plan, OIP [Office of Information Policy] is proud to announce the launch of FOIA.Gov, a comprehensive public resource for government-wide FOIA information and data. FOIA.Gov displays graphically a wealth of data on agency FOIA compliance, contains educational material about how the FOIA works, and contact information …
You Have No Sovereignty Where We Gather Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud, Balázs Bodó – Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, March 7, 2011 “Wikileaks represents a new type of (h)activism, which shifts the source of potential threat from a few, dangerous …
“The new data.gov.au site has now been released and I invite you to explore, access and reuse the data available on the site. The release of public sector information in the form of datasets allows the commercial, research and community sectors to add value to government data in new, innovative and exciting ways. Data.gov.au plays …
EPIC: “In Navy v. Milner, the Supreme Court held that the Freedom of Information Acts Exemption 2 is limited to employee relations and human resources issues. The decision overturns previous decisions by lower courts that applied the exemption to broader categories of records, allowing federal agencies to block disclosure of documents to the public. The …
“EFF just received documents in response to a 2-year old FOIA request for information on the FBIs “Going Dark” program, an initiative to increase the FBI’s authority in response to problems the FBI says it’s having implementing wiretap and pen register/trap and trace orders on new communications technologies. The documents detail a fully-formed and well-coordinated …
The Obama Administrations Open Government Initiative: Issues for Congress, Wendy R. Ginsberg – Analyst in Government Organization and Management, January 28, 2011 “The 112th Congress may oversee the Administrations open government efforts and has the authority to codify any parts of the initiative. This report reviews and discusses the centerpieces of President Obamas transparency initiatives, …
PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law, by Steve Schultze, VoxPopuLII, LII/Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School (February 3, 2011), via freegovinfo.info: “…The ultimate solution to the PACER {Public Access to Court Electronic Records) fee problem unfortunately lies…in bureaucratic details of authorization subcommittees and technical details of network architecture. This is …
Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy, Washington, D.C, January 13, 2011: “Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom Houses annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in …
EPI: “The Department of Homeland Security has released the Freedom of Information Act Report for 2010. The report analyzes the processing of FOIA requests made throughout the year by each DHS component, detailing the disposition of each request, response times, and the number of backlogged requests. DHS is under scrutiny for their policy of referring …
SEC Inspector General Reports of Investigation: In recent years, investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) have exposed a wide range of serious misconduct, including the agency’s failure to crack down on the Madoff and Stanford Ponzi schemes, retaliation against whistleblowers, conflicts of interest, revolving door abuses, the failure …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, this News release: “A federal district court has granted the Department of Homeland Security’s motion to conclude one of EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. EPIC was seeking more than 2,000 images generated by airport body scanners held by the …
