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News release: “Building upon last months historic release of nearly 500 White House visitor records, today the White House releases more than 1,600 records of visits to the White House in response to another months worth of requests. You can view all the records in a searchable database in our Disclosures section. We announced earlier …
Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law, ECIPE [European Centre for International Political Economy] Working Paper No. 12/2009, By Brian Hindley, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama “This paper suggests that many W TO member states are legally obliged to permit an unrestricted supply of cross- border Internet services. And as the option to selectively censor rather than …
News release: “We previously announced that the White House in December of this year would — for the first time in history — begin posting all White House visitor records under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. As part of that initiative, we also offered to look back at the records created before …
New York Times: “In September 2008, the Bush administration changed domestic intelligence-gathering rules. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s interpretation of those rules was recently made public when the bureau released a redacted copy of its “Domestic Investigations and Operation Guide” in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit. The new rules have given F.B.I. agents …
Follow up to previous postings on Investigation of Plame CIA Leak, this October 1, 2009 news release: “U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered the release of records of former Vice President Cheneys interview with the FBI in the Valerie Plame Wilson leak investigation. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), CREW had sued …
EPIC: “…the Department of Justice announced a new policy that limits the governments use of the state secrets privilege. The state secrets privilege is a rule of evidence intended to prevent genuine matters of national security from being disclosed in open court. However, recently it has been misused by both the Bush and Obama administrations …
“The 7th International Right to Know Day on 28th of September 2009 will mark a year of historic advances for the right of access to information and will be celebrated by the Freedom of Information Advocates Network which has around 200 organisations in 75 countries who are calling for universal respect for the publics right …
Review of the Securities and Exchange Commissions Compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Inspector General, September 25, 2009. “The OIG found that the manner that the Commissions Chief FOIA Officer functioned was not in compliance with the requirements of Executive Order 13392 or the OPEN Government Act. Prior …
September 11, 2009 – Pension Sponsorship and Participation: Summary of Recent Trends September 08, 2009 – Electric Power Storage August 31, 2009 – Access to Government Information In the United States August 27, 2009 – FY2010 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues August 27, 2009 – Mexico’s Free Trade Agreements August 26, …
Boston.com: “Mayor Thomas M. Meninos administration, prompted by public records requests from the Globe, has acknowledged that city employees were routinely deleting e-mails, a potential violation of the state public records law. The acknowledgement came after the Globe filed several requests for e-mails sent and received by Meninos Cabinet chief of policy and planning, Michael …
The Apps for America Winners [via Abi Morgan]: DataMasher: “DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.” GovPulse: …
“The 2009 Secrecy Report Card chronicles slight decreases in secrecy across a wide spectrum of indicators in the last year of the Bush-Cheney Administration. The report, released today by a coalition of more than 70 open government advocates, also provides a six-month overview of the Obama Administrations promise and practice on openness issues, and a …
