Officials question cost, scope of e-mail storage measure (4/24/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
A House bill to force the White House and federal agencies to improve e-mail retention received general support Wednesday from the National Archives, GAO and public advocacy groups, but the organizations diverged on whether the measure is too strong or to
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Nieman Watchdog > Are political journalists falling prey to technological misdirection?
There’s been remarkably little press coverage of the apparent disappearance of millions of White House e-mails. And what little there’s been has underestimated both the negligence of the White House’s information technologists and the troubling nati
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Oregon Claims Copyright in Its Statutes -- Well, Sort Of | Citizen Media Law Project
The Legislative Counsel Committee of the State of Oregon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Justia, a free online resource for judicial decisions and statutes, claiming that Justia's posting of the Oregon Revised Statutes violates its copyright. The Co
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NEW CREW REPORT FINDS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ELECTRONIC RECORD KEEPING PRACTICES ABYSMAL | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Despite the ready availability of off-the-shelf products that would allow federal agencies to manage their records electronically, agencies continue to cling to outdated, inefficient and ineffective paper record keeping systems. The federal government has
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Dems seek to require electronic storage of agency e-mail (4/17/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
The White House and federal agencies would have to step up efforts to keep their e-mails under a bill introduced Wednesday, but a nonpartisan watchdog group in a separate report said the legislation does too little to fix an "abysmal" federal e-mail recor
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Legislation Introduced to Improve Federal Electronic Recordkeeping :: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform :: United States House of Representatives
Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay, and Rep. Paul W. Hodes introduced legislation to modernize the requirements of the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act and ensure that crucial records are preserved for historians. The Electronic
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At Justice, New Pressure To Release Documents - washingtonpost.com (4/8/08)
The release last week of a Justice Department memo that authorized the military to pursue harsh interrogation techniques has ignited new demands for documents that underpin the Bush administration's most sensitive policies, including the treatment of deta
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Senator pushes alternative to full CRS report access (3/28/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
A bill urging the Senate to make Congressional Research Service reports publically available is stalled in the Senate Rules Committee and may be the latest of a series of such efforts to fail. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ch
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US Legislative Histories Sold to Thomson-West by the GAO??? :: Justia Law, Technology and Legal Marketing Blog
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GAO/Thomson-West Contract Raises Questions | Free Government Information (FGI)
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The Norman Transcript - Court rules cut off online access to records (3/12/08)
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has adopted rules cutting off public access to court records now available on the Internet.
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Pressure Flushes CDC Report Out of Hiding - Information & Access - OMB Watch
In response to allegations of suppression of science, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a draft report that the agency will continue to modify due to CDC concerns that the report too closely links environmental polluti
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EPA Blasted for Library Closings - Information & Access - OMB Watch
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was blasted in both judicial and congressional forums for closing seven of its libraries over the past several years. In a Feb. 15 ruling, a federal arbitrator found EPA guilty of unfair labor practices with
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Creating Gov Doc "Libraries" in Google Books | Free Government Information (FGI)
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