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August 30, 2006: “NIST is proud to announce the release of Special Publication 800-88, Guidelines for Media Sanitization. This guide is intended to assist organizations and system owners in making practical sanitization decisions based on the type of information on their system media. It does not, and cannot, specifically address all known types of media …
CBO Testimony on the Budgetary Impact of Current and Proposed Border Security and Immigration Policies, August 30, 2006 Related postings on immigration issues
New LC Country Profile of Iraq, August 2006.
Bureau of Justice Statistics press release: “The number of suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system grew substantially during the 10-year period of 1994 to 2003, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. U.S. federal prosecutors investigated more than 130,000 suspects during 2003 (a new record), up from 99,000 …
EPA-350-R-06-002 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal 2005 (PDF, 19 pages), August 2006.
CRS Report, European Approaches to Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism, July 24, 2006. “This report examines homeland security and counterterrorist measures in six selected European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. None of these European countries currently has a single ministry or department equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In …
Officer.com: Piecing the Intelligence Puzzle – Local agencies play a key role in national criminal intelligence sharing.
Govexec.com: E-Gov at Five Years, Part Two: Waiting for Success, by Daniel Pulliam. “Several of the technology projects are outright success stories, genuinely improving federal services online and easing their delivery…But others are stagnating under agency resistance, legal challenges and congressional concern.”
“On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrinas landfall, a paper authored by Kaiser Family Foundation staff, released as a web exclusive by the journal Health Affairs, examines the impact of the storm on New Orleans, the current state of health care in the city, and lessons learned about the city’s health care delivery system. Health …
ONDCP Media Campaign: Contractor’s National Evaluation Did Not Find that the Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Was Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use, Full text GAO-06-818, and Highlights, August 25, 2006. “Between 1998 and 2004, Congress appropriated over $1.2 billion to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. …
Press release: “FDA Takes Close Look at Experience Gained from Regulations Allowing Emergency Research With An Exception from Informed Consent Requirements.” “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a close look at the implementation of its 1996 regulation, 21 CFR 50.24, which allows clinical emergency research when informed consent cannot be obtained. This federal …
Press release: Income Stable, Poverty Rate Increases, Percentage of Americans Without Health Insurance Unchanged: “Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and 2004 at $44,389, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, the nation’s official poverty rate rose from 12.5 percent in 2003 to 12.7 percent in 2004. The …
