Bureau of Justice Statistics: Crime and the Nation's Households, 2005

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Crime and the Nation’s Households, 2005 – “Presents information on households or persons in households who experienced one or more violent or property victimizations in 2005. Measuring crime by counting the affected households gives an understanding of whether crime is concentrated in fewer households or spread among more households in the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOJ OIG Reports on Equitable Sharing Grants and Justice Program Grants

Use of Equitable Sharing Revenues by the Boulder County Drug Task Force Boulder, Colorado, Audit Report GR-60-07-003, April 2007 Use of Equitable Sharing Assets by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Audit Report GR-70-07-003, March 2007 Office of Justice Programs Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative Funding Received by the Yuma County Attorney’s Office, Yuma, Arizona, Audit Report …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Open Source Article: Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

Published online before print April 16, 2007 – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0610172104, Open Access Article, Sustainability Science, Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, and Geoffrey B. West. [full text, PDF] “Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Meeting to Consider a Resolution Authorizing House Judiciary Chairman to Subpoena Monica Goodling

Follow-up to previous posting, White House Liaison Monica Goodling Again Refuses to Testify Before Congress on U.S. Attorney Firings, House Judiciary Committee, April 18, 2007 – Meeting to Consider a Resolution Authorizing the Chairman to Subpoena Monica Goodling and Approval of Vacant Subcommittee Assignments “Meeting to consider: A resolution authorizing the Chairman to issue a …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research

GAO Report on E-Voting Challenges

Elections: All Levels of Government Are Needed to Address Electronic Voting System Challenges GAO-07-741T, April 18, 2007. “Voting systems are one facet of a multifaceted, year-round elections process that involves the interplay of people, processes, and technology, and includes all levels of government. How well these systems play their role in an election depends in …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

SEC Staff Announces Availability of Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Tool

Press release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission’s staff today announced the availability of a new compliance tool to assist anti-money laundering (AML) compliance efforts by broker-dealers…The AML Source Tool, developed by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), compiles and organizes key AML laws, rules and related guidance applicable to broker-dealers and provides …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Appropriations Committee Announces Earmark Reform Standards

Appropriations Committee Announces Earmark Reform Standards, April 17, 2007 Press release, Taxpayers for Common Sense: “The new standards require that both the committee bill and report clearly identify earmarks and include the amount, the recipient (or location) and the purpose and that the bill and report be published on the internet. S. 1 required this …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research, Legislation

Use of Text Messaging for Emergency Alerts on the Rise

Free WSL article looks at Texting When There’s Trouble: “The ubiquity of relatively new technologies allows electronic alerts to reach more people faster than ever before. In the aftermath of several recent disasters — including the tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, and the terrorist attacks in New York, London and …

Subjects: Wireless Web