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Creating Intranet Applications for Knowledge Sharing Within Law Firms, by Jason Eiseman Technology and Policy Issues With Acquiring Digital Collections, by Roger V. Skalbeck and Iva M. Futrell Seven Legal Technology Trends for 2007: Widening the Digital Divide in Law Practice, by Dennis Kennedy GAO Releases Database of Comptroller General Decisions, by Michael Ravnitzky The …
Freedom of Information Act: Processing Trends Show Importance of Improvement Plans, GAO-07-491T, and Highlights, February 14, 2007. “Based on data in annual reports from 2002 to 2005, the public continued to submit more requests for information from the federal government through FOIA. Despite increasing the numbers of requests processed, many agencies did not keep pace …
PBS.org intro: “Drawing on more than 80 interviews with key figures in the print, broadcast and electronic media, and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of today’s most important news organizations, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the challenges facing the mainstream news media, and the media’s reaction, in “News War,” a special four-part series.” 50+ …
National Security Archive: “The CIA’s proposed new rule on Freedom of Information Act processing fees is likely to discourage FOIA requesters while imposing new administrative burdens both on the Agency and the public, according to formal comments filed with the CIA [February 7, 2007] by the National Security Archive of George Washington University. The Archive’s …
“138 new documents were added to the site on February 5, 2007. Additional recent releases may be found here.” [Note: all but four of the documents date back to the 1990s.]
Press release: “The Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT), which is jointly chaired by Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, and Josette Sheeran, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, will host its first conference on Global Internet Freedom on January 30, 2007 in Washington, D.C. This event is a follow-up …
“A new First Amendment Center report examines the rising conflicts between the federal government and the press over matters of secrecy, leaks and threats to prosecute journalists for espionage or treason for reporting classified information. Government Secrecy vs. Freedom of the Press (77 pages, PDF), by Geoffrey R. Stone, a University of Chicago law professor, …
U.S. Department of Justice, Freedom Of Information Act Report For Fiscal Year 2006
WTOP Radio: “More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act.” Excel spreadsheets: Agency Breakdown of Delinquent Employees in 2005 (xls); Agency Breakdown of Delinquent Employees in 2004 (xls)
Press release: “The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) announces the availability of a new book, Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays (PDF), and an electronic records guide that will help researchers locate and use the thousands of newly declassified and previously declassified files in the National Archives …
Press release, January 10, 2007: “Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for its failure to adequately respond to CREW’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to the destruction of Secret Service visitor record logs. On September 27, 2006, CREW filed a …
Press release: “Imagine a library filled with a million books, each 270 pages long. That’s how many historic FBI pages we declassified on December 31, in line with an executive order that now applies to the Bureau. “It’s unprecedented,” says David Hardy, chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section in our Records Management Division. “To historians …
