Executive Order 13416–Strengthening Surface Transportation Security, Presidential Documents: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the security of the Nation’s surface transportation systems and thereby enhance the protection of the people, property, and territory of the United States of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
EPA Redacting Library Website to Remove Public Access to Reports
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) press release: “defiance of Congressional requests to immediately halt closures of library collections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is purging records from its library websites, making them unavailable to both agency scientists and outside researchers, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the… Continue Reading
EAC Releases Findings of Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation Study
Press release: The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today voted on the findings of the Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation Study and accepted recommendations to conduct a comprehensive assessment of all claims, charges and prosecutions of voting crimes. The study represents the first phase of the information gathering process and includes a working definition… Continue Reading
EEO Commission Performance and Accountability Report
Press release: “The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has earned an unqualified opinion on its 2006 financial statements, the third straight year in which independent auditors have performed an extensive examination of the EEOC’s financial records and reported a clean fiscal bill of health for the federal agency. The audit report is a focus… Continue Reading
Department of Defense Draft Emergency Supplemental Budget Request
Department of Defense Draft Emergency Supplemental Budget Request, December 7, 2006: “This draft budget requests an additional $99.7 billion for fighting the global war on terror in 2007.” [Via the Council on Foreign Relations] Continue Reading
Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004
Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004 “This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates for 2004, and provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three decades (19722004),… Continue Reading
DHS and DOE Launch Secure Freight Initiative
Press release: “The Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Energy (DOE) today announced the first phase of the Secure Freight Initiative, an unprecedented effort to build upon existing port security measures by enhancing the federal governments ability to scan containers for nuclear and radiological materials overseas and to better assess the risk of inbound containers.… Continue Reading
CA AG Announces Settlement with HP Over Pretexting
Press release: “Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced Hewlett-Packard (HP) will finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights, and adopt corporate governance reforms, under a $14.5 million settlement that resolves allegations the firm used false pretenses or pretexting to unlawfully access phone records during its… Continue Reading
Treasury Designations Target Terrorist Facilitators
Press release: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated five individuals for providing financial support to al Qaida and other terrorist organizations, as well as facilitating terrorist activity. The individuals were designated pursuant to Executive Order 13224 and added to the Treasury’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” Continue Reading
Council of State Governments Establishes Justice Center
Press release: “The Council of State Governments (CSG) announced Monday the creation of its Justice Center — a national resource center on criminal justice policy. Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, CSG president, joined the organization’s Governing Board in voting to transform the Eastern Regional Conference’s Criminal Justice Program into a new center that will continue to… Continue Reading
Harvard University Opens Immigration Collection
“Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard’s libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression…Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books… Continue Reading
Nationwide Implementation of Federal Judiciary's Case Management and Electronic Case Files System Nearly Completed
U.S. Courts press release: “Nationwide implementation of the federal judiciary’s Case Management and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system is nearly completed in thedistrict and bankruptcy courts. CM/ECF not only replaces the courts’ old electronic docketing and case management systems, but also provides courts the option to have case file documents in electronic format, and to… Continue Reading
