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According to this press release, on June 11 EPIC filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Defense (DOD), under the Freedom of Information Act. The complaint seeks “the release of agency records concerning airline passenger screening procedures” (from the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling …
From today’s press release issued by National Security Archive: Proposed FOIA Exemption Would Provide National Security Agency (NSA) With Virtually Unchecked Power to Keep Records Secret. This release includes links to significant documents on related FOIA exemptions for intelligence agencies, prepared by the National Security Archive (such as this Side By Side Comparison of Statutory …
H. R. 2275, People’s Right to Know Act: To reinstate the requirement that firearms dealers comply with the Freedom of Information Act by providing information about firearms purchasers.
Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security in the Post-9/11 Era: The Challenge of Information Sharing: An Invitational Discussion held at the Brookings Institution.
In The End of History, How e-mail is wrecking our national archive, Fred Kaplan laments the lack of a paper trail for government documents, and the resulting impact on our society in terms of research, context and content that contribute to the public’s ability to access and evaluate the conduct of our democracy.
Via Declan McCullagh’s Wired article, this link to documents in American Library Association Inc. v. U.S., Civil Actions 2001-1303 and 2001-1322, Three-Judge Court Internet Case, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (note the Memorandum and Order is 195 pages.) “The court permanently barred the Federal Communications Commission from cutting off funds to libraries that …
In Another Casualty (registration re’q), Margaret M. Jobe, Chair, Notable Documents Panel, American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) reviews the federal databases and resources that have been removed from the public domain by the Bush Administration in the name of national security, as well as those that may be eliminated in the near …
Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists maintains an extensive resource on Bush Administration Documents on Secrecy Policy. Included are links to: Presidential Documents, Related White House Press Briefings, and Other Official Documents on Bush Administration Secrecy Policy.
SFGate.com reported on public protests against the Patriot Act by Palo Alto librarians. In addition to the librarians, the article states that the “police chief is supporting a resolution before the Cicty Council next week that would prohibit her department from aiding the FBI in Patriot Act searches, interviews or surveillance without evidence that a …
Miriam Drake, Professor Emerita, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology has published part one of a two part article, Government Doublethink: Protection or Supression in Information, in which she reviews and addresses government efforts, through regulation and policy initiatives, to remove a range of documents from the public arena based on national security concerns.
From a May 20 Judiciary Committee news advisory: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the answers received last week from the Justice Department regarding the USA PATRIOT Act and the war on terrorism. Chairman Sensenbrenner and Rep. Conyers wrote Attorney General John Ashcroft on …
The NSA has proposed a FOIA exemption for “files that document the means by which foreign intelligence or counterintelligence is collected through technical systems.” Also via FAS, see the text of the proposed exemption, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, S. 747. From OMBWatch, “The Senate language, included in the proposed FY …
