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First Interim Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Thomas H. Kean, Chair, and Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair, July 8, 2003. The Commission will hold its third public hearing on “Terrorism, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim World” on July 9, 2003 in Washington, DC. Sept. 11 probers complain of …
Today’s Washington Post reported on the security implications of a George Mason University grad student’s dissertation in which he has “mapped every business and industrial sector in the American economy, layering on top the fiber-optic network that connects them.” Again from the article: “He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade — …
Turnabout is fair play – from TIA to GIA: Open Government Information Awareness (GIA Project) website, sponsored by the MIT Media Lab, provides the source code for the applications that power the site: “To empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of …
Restore America’s freedom of information, by Sens. Patrick Leahy and Carl Levin. “The Bush administration has made secrecy, not sunshine, its default position, whether the issue is industry input to the national energy policy (current report has yet to be issued), the names of those detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, or potential vulnerabilities in …
“The National Constitution Center, which opened July 4, 2003 on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, is the first museum in the world dedicated to honoring and explaining the U.S. Constitution through more than 100 interactive and multimedia exhibits, photographs, film, sculpture, text and artifacts.” The site also provides a Constitution Newswire which spotlights national news related to …
“George Washington University’s National Security Archive, the leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, today released its annual Freedom of Information Act birthday posting, 37 years to the day after President Johnson grudgingly signed the U.S. FOIA into law on July 4, 1966. The Archive reported that documents released under federal, state …
From the New York Times: “Officials of the American Library Association will call a meeting with the makers of Internet filtering software next month to voice concern over a federal law that requires libraries and schools to use Internet filters or risk losing federal money.” See also: American Library Assoc. Wants More Info On Net …
The following Freedom of Information Act decisions were received by the Office of Information and Privacy (DOJ) during the months of April through June 2003: New FOIA Decisions, April-June 2003
A Citizen’s Guide on Using The Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records (text version, pdf version), First Report by the Committee on Government Reform, June 23, 2003, House Report 108-172. The Freedom of Information Act Privacy Act of 1974
On June 23, Congressman Sanders of Vermont addressed the issue of the Freedom to Read Protection Act at the joint conference of the American Library Association and Canadian Library Association at their General Assembly Program in Toronto. Text of Sander’s statement.
From the press release: The Public Library of Science is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource. Since October 2000, more than 30,000 scientists, including 13 Nobel Laureates have supported the Public Library of Science and its mission. More information about PLoS, including …
Justices Put Access to Online Information in the Wrong Hands. Also see my posting, Supreme Court Backs Net Filters For Libraries. And, a cartoon is worth a thousand words… (sent by James S. Tyre).
