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… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Congressional Trips Paid by Private Donors Top $50M
Center for Public Integrity special report: “Over a 5½-year period ending in 2005, members of Congress and their aides took at least 23,000 trips valued at almost $50 million financed by private sponsors, many of them corporations, trade associations and nonprofit groups with business on Capitol Hill.” Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
NSA Domestic Surveillance Warrants May Be Submitted to FISA if Agreement is Reached
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. Continue Reading
The Terrorism Index
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 Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Executive Order Protecting Property Rights
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. Continue Reading
AALL Program Handout Materials Online
American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting Handout Materials Collection Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
DHS Audit of RFID Technology for Border Protection
[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. Continue Reading
