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News release: “To increase public awareness about the causes of specific train accidents and to reduce the need for individuals to submit Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is for the first time making its investigation reports of major train accidents and other incidents available online, FRA Administrator Joseph H. …
The Sunshine in Litigation Act: Does Court Secrecy Undermine Public Health and Safety? Senate Judiciary Committee, S. HRG. 110263 [248 pages, PDF]. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 110th Congress, 1st Session, December 11, 2007. [via FAS]
News release: “Many Americans assume that China’s internet users are unhappy about their government’s control of the internet, but a new survey finds most Chinese say they approve of internet regulation, especially by the government.” Most Chinese Say They Approve of Government Internet Control, by Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life …
“Today is Document Freedom Day: The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with roughly 200 active teams worldwide. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general…Open Standards are essential …
“In celebration of Sunshine Week, the National Security Archive’s Mexico Project publishes today a new study of Mexico’s transparency law: FOI in Practice: Measuring the Complexity of Information Requests and Quality of Government Responses in Mexico. The study represents the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican freedom of information law: what information requesters have sought …
National Archives and Records Administration: “The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and the National Archives opened 11,046 pages of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s White House schedules. These Presidential records are…now available [via this page at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum site]…These schedules are from the First Lady’s Staff files of Patti …
“Three-quarters of American adults view the federal government as secretive, and nearly nine in 10 say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government when deciding who to vote for, according to a Sunshine Week survey by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University. The survey shows a significant increase over …
DOJ Office of Information and Privacy: “On March 16 we celebrate the anniversary of James Madison’s birthday. Madison, traditionally viewed as the Father of the United States Constitution, is also seen by many as a defender of open government. He once wrote, “[a] popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is …
FOIA Annual Report for 2007 (PDF, 94 pages)
The Connection Has Been Reset, by James Fallows. “In reality, what the Olympic-era visitors will be discovering is not the absence of Chinas electronic control but its new refinementand a special Potemkin-style unfettered access that will be set up just for them, and just for the length of their stay. According to engineers I have …
Summaries of New Decisions – January 2008, posted 2/25/2008 “..up-to-date summaries of new court decisions..broken down by FOIA Exemption or procedural element and internal citations and quotations have been omitted. OIP provides these case summaries as a public service; due to their nature as summaries, they are not intended to be authoritative or complete statements …
DHS Privacy Office 2006 Annual Freedom of Information Act Report to the Attorney General of the United States, October 1, 2005 September 30, 2006 (61 pages, PDF)
