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Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Final Rule, Final Rule: Hospital Conditions of Participation: Requirements for Approval and Re-approval of Transplant Centers to Perform Organ Transplants, March 22, 2006 (440 pages, PDF) “This final rule establishes, for the first time, Medicare conditions of participation for heart, heart-lung, intestine, kidney, …
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Oversight Hearing on the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Changing Tides: Exploring the Current State of Civil Rights Enforcement within the Department of Justice By Direction of the Chairman. Documents and Links: Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights – The Erosion of Rights: Declining …
ACLU v Gonzales [originally ACLU v. Reno, then ACLU v. Ashcroft], Final Adjudication on the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, March 22, 2007 (84 pages, PDF) Alternate link to the PDF decision, ACLU v. Gonzales, 22 March 2007, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Final Order, …
House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Reforming Section 115 of the Copyright Act for the Digital Age, March 22, 2007. Statement of Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights U.S. Register of Copyrights, Washington, DC
Via Secrecy News: CRS Director Daniel P. Mullohan issued a memo to all CRS staff, entitled Distribution of CRS Products to Non-Congressionals, stating that “prior approval should now be required at the division or office level before products are distributed to members of the public…effectively immediately.” Related article, Washington Post, You’d Know if You Were …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security that the government and the private sector must continue to work together to reduce the opportunities for thieves to obtain consumers personal information and make it more difficult for thieves to misuse that information if they …
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11 – Updated March 14, 2007. “With enactment of FY2007 appropriations, Congress has approved a total of about $510 billion for military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 …
Press release: “Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan today praised an interagency effort to improve consumer privacy notices from financial institutions and urged financial institutions and others to provide feedback on the proposed rule. Dugan stated: Today’s proposed rule on consumer privacy notices marks a significant step in the interagency effort to provide disclosures …
“The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress today announced that Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers is debuting online with more than 226,000 pages of public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. The text of the newspapers is …
Press release: “The federal courts requested $6.43 billion from Congress for fiscal year 2008 as Judge Julia Gibbons, chair of the Judicial Conference Budget Committee, and Administrative Office Director James C. Duff testified before appropriations subcommittees in the House and Senate.”
Data Mining: Early Attention to Privacy in Developing a Key DHS Program Could Reduce Risks GAO-07-293, February 28, 2007. “The government’s interest in using technology to detect terrorism and other threats has led to increased use of data mining. A technique for extracting useful information from large volumes of data, data mining offers potential benefits …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) report on Terrorism Enforcement: International, Domestic and Financial: “An analysis of timely Justice Department records shows that while there has been a sharp decline in the prosecution of individuals the government has identified as international terrorists (see earlier TRAC Terrorism report), criminal cases aimed at domestic terrorists and individuals involved …
