Minority Staff Report: Investigation of Jack Abramoffs Use of Tax-Exempt Organizations
Senate Committee on Finance, Minority Staff Report: Investigation of Jack Abramoff’s Use of Tax-Exempt Organizations, October 2006 (358 pages, PDF)
Committee Report Finds Data Breaches Throughout Federal Government
Press release: “In a report released today, Reps. Davis and Waxman summarize information provided to the Committee by 19 federal departments and agencies regarding the loss or compromise of personal information since January 2003. The report finds that every agency has experienced at least one such breach and that the agencies do not always know …
NRC Issues Orders on Safeguarding WMD Info
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Safeguards Information access; fingerprinting and criminal history check requirements [Federal Register: October 13, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 198][Notices][Page 60587-60590] Order Imposing Fingerprinting and Criminal History Records Check Requirements for Access to Safeguards Information (Effective Immediately)
Study Examines Midwest Election Coverage
Joyce Foundation News press release, Midwest Local TV Newscasts Average 36 Seconds of Election Coverage: “In the month following the traditional Labor Day kickoff of the 2006 election campaign season, television stations in nine Midwest markets devoted an average of 36 seconds to election coverage during the typical 30-minute local news broadcast, a new analysis …
BJS Report on Role of Law Enforcement in Public Health Emergencies
“This Bureau of Justice Assistance report describes the role of law enforcement during public health emergencies, mass vaccinations, voluntary restrictions, and quarantines; securing the perimeter of contaminated areas and securing health care facilities; controlling crowds; investigating scenes of suspected biological terrorism; and protecting national stockpiles of vaccines or other medicines.” Role of Law Enforcement in …
PEER Reports EPA Scientists Losing Access to Research Sources
Follow up to previous postings on closures of EPA libraries around the country, this October 9, 2006 press release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sharply reducing the number of technical journals and environmental publications to which its employees will have online access, according to agency e-mails released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility …
Committee on Homeland Security Releases Report on Post-9/11 Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Press release, October 12, 2006: “U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced the release of the Committee’s report on post-9/11 funding to New York City. The report cites instances of waste, fraud, and abuse from the $20 billion in federal assistance sent to New York following September 11, …
Draft Paper, Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation
Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation, Public DRAFT September 21, 2006, R. David Lankes, Joanne Silverstein. Produced for the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy. Information Institute of Syracuse. Syracuse Universitys school of Information Studies. There are three ways to provide comments on the public draft: Read and E-Mail; Read and Join the …
Federal Prosecution of Human Trafficking, 2001-2005
Federal Prosecution of Human Trafficking, 2001-2005, 10/06. “Presents Federal criminal case processing statistics on peonage and slavery statutes in the U.S. criminal code with a focus on human trafficking offenses created by Congress in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. NCJ 215248” Acrobat file | ASCII file| Spreadsheets (zip format 3K)
Analysis Identifies Errs in Estimated Premium Costs for Medicare Part D Coverage
Press release: “The Department of Health and Human Services erred when it claimed that seniors would not face premium increases for their Medicare Part D coverage in 2007. A new analysis released by Rep. Waxman shows that for the average senior, premiums will increase by over 10%, with some seniors enrolled in the lowest-priced plans …
HHS OIG Audit of Medicaid Payments to Deceased Beneficiaries
Audit of Selected States’ Medicaid Payments for Services Claimed To Have Been Provided to Deceased Beneficiaries (A-05-05-00030), October 12, 2006.
CMO Council Survey on ID Theft Tracks Growing Consumer Concern
Press release, October 4, 2006: “As information security concerns among consumers and other customer constituencies rise, just 29 percent of marketers say that their firm has a crisis containment plan in case of a security breach, according to findings of a major research initiative by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council. Without such a plan …