Category «Government Documents»

National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives

National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives: “The new NDI program will reduce redundancies in declassification review, will promote accurate and consistent declassification decisions, will improve equity recognition across the declassification community, develop centralized priorities and management controls around the priorities, and make the declassification process more transparent to the public.” Related postings on …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Report Questions Purported Security Provided by E- Passports

Press release: “Today Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), joined by representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and The Cato Institute, released its report, Border Security: PASS Card Fails on Cost, Privacy.” See also State Department Begins Issuing E-Passports

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

Two Part Review of Post 9/11 Anti-Terror Technology and Government Secrecy

Post-9/11 antiterror technology: A report card news analysis – As Sept. 11 nears, News.com examines five useful ways of improving security–and five that should raise eyebrows, by Declan McCullagh Post-9/11 privacy and secrecy: A report card, by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache

Subjects: Government Documents

Kennedy Library Archivist Article on Efforts to Retrieve Missing Kennedy Documents

Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot – How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, by James M. Roth: “Among the more celebrated individuals suspected of misappropriating presidential and federal documents is Evelyn Lincoln, former secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through the efforts of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library staff, the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Libraries

DHS OIG Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities

Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities, OIG-06-56 (PDF, 22 pages), September 6, 2006.

Subjects: Government Documents

U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive

U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive – Definitions, Treatment Policy, and Compliance with Laws of War, September 5, 2006 Related government documents from Office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI): Information on the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, September 6, 2006 Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees, September 1, 2006

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Searchable Version of National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

From askSam, the text of the 2006 U.S. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism is available in searchable and browseable online versions.

Subjects: Government Documents

Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates

Press release: “More than half of all prison and jail inmates, including 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners and 64 percent of local jail inmates, were found to have a mental health problem, according to a new study published today by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).” Mental Health …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Administration's Proposed Legislation to Create Military Commissions

Military Commissions Act of 2006: A bill to facilitate bringing to justice terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants through full and fair trials by military commissions, and for other purposes – September 6, 2006 (86 pages, PDF) Related government documents: Message to the Congress of the United States on the Military Commissions Act of 2006, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

National School Lunch Program

Via MetaFilter, a reminder that the National School Lunch Program “provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946.”

Subjects: Government Documents

An Examination of Federal 9/11 Assistance to New York

House Committee Print 109-C — An Examination of Federal 9/11 Assistance to New York: Lessons Learned in Preventing Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Lax Management, A Staff Report of the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security. [note: this document is 206 pages, PDF, and loads slowly]

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

The Year in Trade 2005

Press release: “The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today released The Year in Trade 2005 (197 pages, PDF), its annual overview of the previous year’s trade-related activities. The publication provides a practical review of U.S. international trade laws, a survey of actions under U.S. trade laws, a summary of the operation of the World Trade …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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