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Press release: “The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is launching an effort to contact up to 2.2 million applicants for federal disaster assistance to inform them that a federal appellate court ruling requires FEMA to release certain personally identifiable information. This information would normally be protected under the Privacy Act and the exemption for personal …
Press release, Sen. Patrick Leahy: “…As the first major reform to FOIA in more than a decade, the OPEN Government Act would help to reverse these troubling trends and help to begin to restore the publics trust in their government. This bill [S. 849] also improves transparency in the Federal Governments FOIA process by: Restoring …
Documents, Leaks and the Boundaries of Expression, by Susan Nevelow Mart Librarians as Change Agents, by Mary Alice Baish Scanning and OCR with Acrobat 8, by Rick Borstein Guide to Short Form Open Access Legal Publications, by Ken Strutin Elder Resources on the Internet, by Marcus P. Zillman Gay/Lesbian Law Pathfinder, by Mark Plotkin The …
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): An Overview – Ms. Susan Cornell, Freedom of Information Officer and Chief FOIA Liaison, NIH
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“On January 8, 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency submitted a proposed rule for public comment on Freedom of Information Act processing fees to the Federal Register. The CIA has reviewed and carefully considered all of the comments that were submitted in response to our proposal. As a result of that review, the CIA hereby issues …
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today final Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) awards totaling $1.7 billion, including a total of almost $411 million to the nations six urban areas at highest risk of a terrorist attack: New York City/Northern New Jersey; the National Capital Region; Los …
“Each year Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) gathers relevant statistical data regarding each agency’s security classification program. ISOO analyzes this data in its 2006 Annual Report to the President.” AP: “There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process.” Related government …
Press release: “Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, while the U.S. government conducted its space reconnaissance program under a veil of absolute secrecy, officials debated whether information about the program (including the “fact of” its existence and certain photographs) should be disclosed to other elements of the government, public, allies, and even the …
EFF press release: “…The FBI’s use of NSLs was expanded under the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, allowing federal agents to gather private records about anyone’s domestic phone calls, emails, and financial transactions without any court approval — as long as an FBI agent claims that the information could be related to a terrorism or …
Commentary – John Moss and the battle for freedom of information, 41 years later: “How one modest but stubborn congressman overcame the many entrenched obstacles to win the American people access to information about the activities of their government,” by Michael R. Lemov.
Press release: “The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has wrongfully withheld data documenting years of toxic exposures to workers and its own inspectors, according to a federal court ruling posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, the worlds largest compendium of measurements of occupational exposures to toxic substances …
