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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 …
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 …
AP reports on an impending agreement between Congress and the White House on legislation incorporating language on the government’s domestic surveillance program into law.
Center for American Progress: The Terrorism Index: A Survey of the U.S. National Security Establishment on the War on Terror Executive Summary and Methodology with Complete Terrorism Survey Results View the complete survey results
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 …
June 23, 2006- Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People – related to Supreme Court decision, June 23, 2005 – Kelo v. City of New London, No. 04-108.
American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting Handout Materials Collection
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 …
[Customs and Border Patrol] CBP’s Trusted Traveler Systems Using RFID Technology Require Enhanced Security (Redacted) OIG-06-36 (PDF, 33 pages,) released 06/23/06.
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal judge today that the government should not be allowed to use the “state secrets privilege” to preempt the class-action lawsuit against AT&T. EFF’s suit accuses AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in illegally spying on millions of Americans — handing over customers’ telephone and …
AP reports that Dr. King’s collection of writings and books will be given to his alma mater, Morehouse College, after their purchase by a group of distinguished community leaders, thus ensuring availability to the public in years to come.
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 …