Undocumented Immigrants in U.S. – Mexico Border Counties: The costs of law enforcement and criminal justice services, September 2007. “From 1999 through 2006, the 24 counties along the U.S.-Mexico border spent a cumulative $1.23 billion on services to process criminal undocumented immigrants through the law enforcement and criminal justice system. In fiscal year 2006 alone,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
New GAO Reports: Border Security, Gov't IT, Sale of Magnetic Data Tapes
Border Security: Fraud Risks Complicate State’s Ability to Manage Diversity Visa Program, GAO-07-1174, September 21, 2007 Information Technology: Further Improvements Needed to identify and Oversee Poorly Planned and Performing Projects, GAO-07-1211T, September 20, 2007 Sale of Magnetic Data Tapes Previously Used by the Government Presents a Low Security Risk, GAO-07-1233R, September 21, 2007 Continue Reading
DOJ FOIA Posts – Summaries of New Decisions — May 2007
“As announced previously by OIP [Office of Information Policy], we are now posting up-to-date summaries of new court decisions. To facilitate their review, each case is broken down by FOIA Exemption or procedural element and internal citations and quotations have been omitted. OIP provides these case summaries as a public service; due to their nature… Continue Reading
Financial Market Developments – Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science?
Financial Market Developments – Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science? by Frederic S. Mishkin, 2007-44 (46 pages, PDF) Abstract: This paper reviews the progress that the science of monetary policy has made over recent decades. This progress has significantly expanded the degree to which the practice of monetary policy reflects the application of… Continue Reading
DOE OIG Audits: Hanford Environmental Information System and Unclassified Cyber Security Program
DOE OIG Report, Management Controls over the Hanford Environmental Information System, September 2007, OAS-M-07-06 Evaluation Report, The Department’s Unclassified Cyber Security Program – 2007, September 2007, DOE/IG-0776 Continue Reading
New Australian Legislation Would Allow Police to Ban Internet Content
Press release: “Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today slammed a Bill introduced into the Senate which would give members of the Australian Federal Police powers to ban access to Internet content. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Crime or Terrorism Related Internet Content) Bill 2007 would, if enacted, give senior members of the Australian Federal Police powers to… Continue Reading
Iraq Weekly Status Report – State Department
Iraq Weekly Status Report: This comprehensive status report on Iraq provides weekly updates in the eight key areas identified as pillars of U.S. Government policy. See also Reports on Near Eastern Affairs, which includes links to the following topical reports: Iraq Weekly Status Report Section 1227 Report on Iraq Section 2207 Report on Iraq Relief… Continue Reading
EPIC Testifies Before DHS Privacy Advisory Panel on Fusion Centers
EPIC: “The Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security held a series of panel discussions on the topic of “information fusion centers.” EPIC’s statement to the committee made specific recommendations on the need to create accountability, oversight, and greater transparency on the work of fusion centers. So far DHS has… Continue Reading
Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Africa, 2007
“This third issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of Africa. The combined findings of this series, which also includes volumes on Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, are published at 6-month intervals over a 2-year period. Each volume highlights features of social… Continue Reading
Updated Version of FedSpending.org Includes New Data for FY 2006 and FY 2007
“On September 20, 2007, OMB Watch released another updated version of FedSpending.org, including new data for FY 2006 and FY 2007, addtional search functionality, greater accessibility for people with disabilities, and patches and upgrades for reported bugs. The site now contains contracting data through the second quarter of FY 2007 and federal assistance data through… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Performance Budgeting, Drug Control, SBA, Unemployment Insurance
21st Century Challenges: How Performance Budgeting Can Help, GAO-07-1194T, September 20, 2007 Drug Control: U.S. Assistance Has Helped Mexican Counternarcotics Efforts, but Tons of Illicit Drugs Continue to Flow into the United States, GAO-07-1018, August 17, 2007 September 11: Problems Remain in Planning for and Providing Health Screening and Monitoring Services for Responders, GAO-07-1253T, September… Continue Reading
New Search Engines Focus on Biomedical Literature and Clinical Trials Information
Press release: “Healia announced today the launch of two new search engine tools – Healia PubMed/Medline Search and Clinical Trials Search – to help consumers find relevant biomedical literature and clinical trials information…Healia PubMed/Medline Search is specifically designed to help consumers retrieve abstracts (summaries) of scientific articles published in biomedical journals in a user-friendly way.… Continue Reading
