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Daily Archives: September 4, 2009

White House voluntary disclosure policy – visitor access records

White Hosue Policy: “The President has decided to increase governmental transparency by implementing a voluntary disclosure policy governing White House visitor access records. The White House will release, on a monthly basis, all previously unreleased WAVES and ACR access records that are 90 to 120 days old. For example, records created in January 2010 will be released at the end of April 2010. The short time lag will allow the White House to continue to conduct business, while still providing the American people with an unprecedented amount of information about their government. No previous White House has ever adopted such a policy. The voluntary disclosure policy will apply to records created after September 15, 2009, and the first release of records (covering the month of September) will occur at the end of the year, on or about December 31, 2009. We expect that each monthly release will include tens of thousands of electronic records. Since the White House considers these records to be subject to the Presidential Records Act, it will continue to preserve them accordingly.”
Bush Administration

  • WHO: [PDF part 1, PDF part 2]
  • OVP: [PDF]
  • Obama Administration

  • WHO: [.csv]
  • Executive Agency Ethics Pledge Waivers

    White House: “We have previously reported six limited waivers that have been granted by the White House pursuant to the President’s Executive Order on Ethics for Executive Branch personnel – the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history. Three of these waivers involved lobbying-related issues and three did not. We blogged about them here, here,… Continue Reading

    GPO Releases 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System

    The Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the release of 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System (FDsys). The new collections are: Congressional Directory (105th Congress to present) Congressional Record (Bound) (1999 to 2001) Congressional Record Index (Daily) (1983 to Present) Economic Report of the President (1996 to present) GAO Reports and… Continue Reading

    Employment Situation Summary – August 2009

    News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in August (-216,000), and the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Although job losses continued in many of the major industry sectors in August, the declines have moderated in recent months. In August, the number of unemployed persons increased… Continue Reading

    Google Publishes Books Privacy Policy

    Google Books Privacy Policy, September 3, 2009 “The main Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services, including Google Books. This additional Policy for Google Books does three things: (1) it highlights key provisions of the main Google Privacy Policy in the context of the Google Books… Continue Reading