DHS OIG Report Reviews FEMA Katrina Performance
A Performance Review of FEMA’s Disaster Management Activities in Response to Hurricane Katrina (PDF, 218 pages), 04/14/2006. Related postings on Katrina
Category «Freedom of Information»
NARA Participated In Keeping Gov Docs Secret After Declassification Occured
Follow-up to April 10, 2006 posting, Archivist Statement on Declassification of MOU Between National Archives and U.S. Air Force, this press release today from the National Security Archive: “The National Archives and Records Administration secretly agreed to a covert effort, led by the Air Force, the CIA, and other still-hidden intelligence entities, to remove open-shelf …
Series of Articles Addresses Critical Issue of Government Secrecy and Public Access to Information
Federal Secrecy After September 11 and the Future of the Information Society, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2006), Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
Advocacy Groups Oppose Sunset Proposals
OMBWatch: “Nonprofit groups spoke out today against sunset proposals now being pushed by House conservatives. The proposals could create a single unelected commission to review every federal program, and would mandate that all federal programs automatically “sunset”–completely cease–after a fixed period, unless Congress intervened.” Read the letter to Congress Learn more about sunset proposals EPIC: …
Sunshine in Government Initiative
“The Sunshine in Government Initiative is a coalition of media groups committed to promoting policies that ensure the government is accessible, accountable and open. Public oversight is the ultimate safeguard of democracy. This is not an issue just for the media. It is the inalienable right of citizens to examine and judge their government; and …
Collection of State Dept. Cables from 1973-1974 Now Searchable Online
From the National Archives: Central Foreign Policy Files, 1973-1974: This series, popularly known as the “State Department Cables” or the “State Department Telegrams”, consist of telegrams, and an index to airgrams, memoranda, correspondence, reports, diplomatic notes, and related material. The 1973 and 1974 digital and fully releasable permanent portion of this series is now accessible …
New on LLRX.com
Analyze This: The Evolution of Competitive Intelligence Products for the Legal Profession, by Donna Cavallini Interpretation and Translation Resources for the Criminal Justice System, by Ken Strutin Campaign Finance and the Internet: A Commentary on the Online Freedom of Speech Act, by Beth Wellington Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated, by Donna …
Freedominfo.org Launches Redesigned Website
Press release: “Four years after its launch and more than 1 million hits later, freedominfo.org has a whole new look. But the dual mission of the site remainsa virtual network linking freedom of information (FOI) movements globally and an institutional memory for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Freedominfo.org today introduces a …
New on LLRX.com
FOIA Facts – Sunshine Week and Other Things, by Scott A. Hodes CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com – The Earmark – Part 2, by Paul Jenks E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc. – Working With Obsolete Data, by Conrad J. Jacoby
Summary and Analysis of Proposed Legislative Changes to FOIA in 2005
From the First Amendment Center, Kevin Goldberg summarizes federal legislation in 2005 that involved FOIA issues, and comments on the status of the proposals. Postings since 2002 on FOIA
Website Tracks Censorship in Search Results
“Welcome to CenSEARCHip! This is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics in March of 2006 to allow you to explore the differences in the results returned by different countries’ versions of the major search engines. We currently work with the Web search and image search …
FOI Audit of Gov’t Policies on Sensitive Unclassified Info
Press release: “The first-ever government-wide audit of the ways that federal agencies mark and protect information that is unclassified but sensitive for security reasons has found 28 different and uncoordinated policies, none of which include effective oversight or monitoring of how many records are marked and withheld, by whom, or for how long. The audit …
