Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Press release: For the fourth year in a row, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation (HJTF) today released the California Piglet Book, the definitive guide for reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the California state government. “The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW’s annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in …
DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics “today announced almost $11 million in awards to state agencies to improve the completeness, quality and accessibility of the nation’s criminal record systems. Of this amount, more than $2.4 million was awarded to 15 jurisdictions to improve coordination and enhance the accuracy of data entered into …
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Unprecedented Challenges Exposed the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) to Fraud and Abuse; Actions Needed to Reduce Such Problems in Future, GAO-06-1013, September 27, 2006. “GAO identified the potential for significant fraud and abuse as a result of FEMA’s management of the IHP in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Flaws …
D-2006-118 – Financial Management of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts at Selected DoD Components, September 27, 2006 (Project No. D2006-D000FE-0010.000) “We performed this audit to determine whether obligations and expenditures related to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts at selected DoD Components were executed efficiently, timely, and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.”
Press release: “In 2005, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in partnership with DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), and the IJIS Institute (IJIS), chartered a group of public and private sector specialists to focus on privacy technology, charging the group to examine the …
A Review of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Discipline Procedures, OIG-06-57 (PDF, 49 pages), released on September 26, 2006.
Press release: President Bush Signs Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act -“…Federal Funding Accountability Act — Accountability and Transparency Act will create a new website that will list government grants and contracts greater than $25,000. We’ll list all grants except for those above $25,000, except for those that must remain classified for national security reasons. …
EPA Needs to Emphasize Management of Earmark Grants [Report PDF – 19 pages] [At a Glance PDF] September 26, 2006, Report No. 2006-P-00037.
[Federal Register: September 26, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 186)}[Notices] [Page 56152-56153] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Notice of annual update of list of infectious and communicable diseases that are transmitted through handling the food supply and the methods by which such diseases are transmitted.
Identity Theft: A Bibliography of Federal, State, Consumer and News Resources – Revised and Updated, by Sabrina I. Pacifici & Catherine Guthrie Small Content, Long Tails, and Big Ideas in Law Libraries, by Jason Eisenman E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc.: The Myth of Search, by Conrad J. Jacoby CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com: Congressional Intent, by …
In a September 25, 2006 letter to Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) requested the declassification of portions of the April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, to the “fullest extent possible,” following reporting by the New York Times about its conclusions. Press release: “House Democratic Leader Pelosi, Rep. Waxman, and other senior …
The Memory Hole: “This page contains indexes of four periodicals published by the National Security Agency, plus a listing of publications from the NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History. These indexes haven’t been publicly released until now, and many of the Cryptologic History publications weren’t previously known to the public. Researcher Michael Ravnitzky has discovered a …
