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Stateline.org: “The 2001 terrorist attacks led every state but South Dakota to restrict access to information deemed critical to homeland security from architectural blueprints to emergency evacuation routes, according to a comprehensive, state-by-state study of post-9/11 changes to open-government laws. Wary of terrorists, state lawmakers closed government meetings previously open to the public, denied …
DOJ FOIA Summaries of New Decisions, September 2007: “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 of the facts or holdings of any of the cases summarized, and they should not be relied upon as such. Set out …
Veteran Suicide – Methodology, November 13, 2007: “When CBS News began looking into veteran suicide, it found that no federal organization or agency tracks the number of veteran suicides nationally. No one is keeping count. We wanted to know how many veterans are committing suicide nationwide and how the rate of suicide for veterans compares …
Press release: “The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [October 30, 2007] amended its regulations for accessing critical energy infrastructure information (CEII) to create a more efficient process and provide additional guidance of what material is considered CEII…Specifically, the Commission is allowing landowners access to alignment sheets containing CEII for the limited portion of a project that …
CIA FOIA Backlog Reduction Goals for Fiscal Years 2008, 2009, and 2010
Press release: “In anticipation of the planned launch of the final Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite tomorrow evening, which was originally scheduled to be orbited in October 2005, the National Security Archive has posted on the Web a collection of declassified documents tracing the history of the program from its roots as Subsystem G of …
GovernmentAttic.org has posted the FOIA Case Logs for the Federal Aviation Administration for the years 2006 and 2007. FOIA Logs for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for FY 2006 (537 pages, PDF) FOIA Logs for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for FY 2007 (354 pages, PDF)
Cultural Challenges in Cross Border Mediation, by Vikrant Singh Negi Persuading Judges in Writing: Tips for Lawyers (And how technology can help), by Troy Simpson Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring, by Susan Armstrong and Sabrina I. Pacifici E-Discovery Update: Discovery of Employee-Owned Computer Equipment, by Conrad J. Jacoby The Government Domain: Journalists and Government Information: …
“Chairman Waxman asks White House Counsel Fred Fielding to turn over more than 600 pages of documents relating to the activities of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff that are being withheld because they involve internal White House deliberations.”
Press release: “The Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Committee Members today heard from NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin on his agencys management of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS)…NAOMS has garnered headlines recently due to NASAs refusal to release data collected from an air safety …
Press release: “Eritrea has replaced North Korea in last place in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world that is published today by Reporters Without Borders for the sixth year running…Outside Europe – in which the top 14 countries are located – no region of the world has …
governmentattic.org…”rummaging in the government’s attic” launches with the FOIA Logs for 50 federal agencies (in PDF), as well several dozen sets of government documents obtained via FOIA requests. The topical documents range from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Standardized Chapel Library Project book list to the US DOJ Federal Bureau of Investigation Documents re: …
