Category «Government Documents»

Court Records Available via NARA's Order Online

Press release: “Beginning June 26, 2006 customers will be able to order copies of Court Records from a NARA Federal Records Center using Order Online!, the National Archives’ online ordering web site. Order Online! provides an easy and convenient method for customers to request reproductions of certain records and pay for these orders with most …

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

BJS Report Documents Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force

Bureau of Justice Statistics press release: “Large state and local law enforcement agencies with 59 percent of the nation’s sworn officers received 26,556 citizen complaints about the police use of force during 2002, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The rate was 6.6 complaints per 100 full-time sworn officers. Eighty-four percent …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New on LLRX.com

Public Defense Systems, by Ken Strutin Pathfinder on the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry, by Sarah Spear The Government Domain: Google’s New U.S. Government Search, by Peggy Garvin Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How to Select a Website Designer, by Frederick L. Faulkner IV E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc.: Controlling the Accidental Release of Digital …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Marketing, Search Engines

Ancestry.com Digitizes Entire U.S. Federal Census Collection From 1790-1930

Press release, June 22, 2006: “Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history source, today announced it has completed digitizing and indexing the entire U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930. Ancestry.com is the only source where all publicly released census information can be found online. The addition of the complete census collection makes Ancestry.com the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Travis County Texas Scrubs Social Security Numbers from Online Records

County Clerk to Temporarily Halt Online Posting of Public Records, June 19, 2006: ” Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir announced today that her office will temporarily halt publishing public records on the Internet. DeBeauvoir said her commitment to protecting individual personal data outweighs the convenience of accessing records online. DeBeauvoir stressed the public records will …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

Disclosure of Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

Follow-up to June 22, 2006 posting, Government Mines Global Financial Data in War on Terror, the following related government documents and news today includes: Press release: Statement of Treasury Secretary John W. Snow on Disclosure of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program: “Given our intimate knowledge of the global financial system and financial flows, along with …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

NARA Seminar on Mandatory Declassification of Gov. Docs.

Press release: “A free workshop [June 30, 2006 – Jefferson Room National Archives Building 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC, 20408]sponsored by the National Archives Information Security Oversight Office that is aimed at informing the researcher public and the media of their rights in obtaining the maximum information by requesting a declassification review of classified …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Appeals Court Rules Against SEC on Hedge Fund Oversight

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 04-1434a Goldstein, Phillip vs. SEC SEC, 17 CFR Parts 275 and 279,[Release No. IA-2333; File No. S7-30-04] RIN 3235-AJ25, Registration Under the Advisers Act of Certain Hedge Fund Advisers, Final Rule. “In a controversial move in late 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided to require …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Joint Statement on Climate Conference from Senate Energy Committee

Joint Statement [released June 22, 2006] of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman and Ranking Member on the Climate Change Conference Held on April 4, 2006 (PDF). “Joint Statement examines issues discussed and legislative policy ideas brought forth by participants at the Climate Change Conference.” Additional April 4 Climate Conference Information released on …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents