GPO press release: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor has informed GPO that they will cease the print publication of the “CPI Detailed Report” and the “PPI Detailed Report”. The last printed copies of these titles will be Volume XXXIII, Number 6, and Volume 11, Number 6, respectively. Both of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Oversight Committee Investigation of Use of RNC E-Mail Accounts by White House Officials
Administration Oversight, White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts: “The Oversight Committee has been investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act by using e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Cheney 04 campaign for official White House communications. This interim staff report provides a summary of the evidence… Continue Reading
DOJ OIG Review of Reporting Procedures for Loss of Sensitive Electronic Information
Review of the Department of Justices Reporting Procedures for Loss of Sensitive Electronic Information, Evaluations and Inspections Report I-2007-005, June 2007. Continue Reading
Confidentiality Arrangements Concluded Between EU (EC and EMEA) and US FDA/DHHS
Confidentiality Arrangements Concluded Between the EU (EC and EMEA) and the US FDA/DHHS – Implementation Plan for Medicinal Products for Human Use, Updated June 2007. Continue Reading
2007 SLA Legal Division Programs and Speaker Material from Annual Conference in Denver
SLA Annual Meeting 2007: Programming for SLA Legal Division, Saturday, June 2, 2007 – Thursday, June 7, 2007. Selected presentations and handouts are available here. Continue Reading
USPTO Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation
Press release: “Peer-to-Patent, an initiative of New York Law Schools Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), began on Friday of last week. In an Official Gazette Notice published on June 6, 2007, the USPTO announced that this pilot program to test the value of… Continue Reading
Government Information Division Posts Presentations from SLA Conference
Government Information Division, 2007 Annual Conference Recaps Denver, Colorado, June 3-6, 2007: “The Government Information Division will be recapping all its sponsored and co-sponsored events. In addition, DGI will offer recaps of other events that impact government information. This page will be updated as new recaps are made available.” Continue Reading
Report of Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007
An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007 (100 pages, PDF) Related news and government documents: Washington Post, June 17, 2007 – The War Inside – Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult, by… Continue Reading
Public Interest Group Launches Searchable Farm Bill 2007 Database
Press release: “For decades, American taxpayers have provided tens of billions of dollars in federal farm subsidies to some of the largest and wealthiest farm businesses in the nation. But thousands of people who benefited from the subsidy flow were shielded from public view behind layers of partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability corporations, cooperatives, and… Continue Reading
Argus Leader Posts Availability of State Employee Salaries
ArgusLeader.com has posted a webpage that lists states and corresponding information on state employee salaries, if and where available, either online or via written request. Continue Reading
OMB Issues New Guidelines for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Information
Press release: OMB Issues New Guidelines for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Information (June 15, 2007) Implementation Guidance for Title V of the E-Government Act, Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. ACTION: Notice of decision. Federal Register: June 15, 2007… Continue Reading
Sunlight Foundation Launches Search Engine for Federal Documents
June 14, 2007 press release: “The Sunlight Foundation today launched a new search engine called LOUIS the Library Of Unified Information Sources to improve public access to federal documents through an all-inclusive, catalogued and cross-referenced collection of official documents from the executive and legislative branches of government…LOUIS makes it easy to search from… Continue Reading
