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Daily Archives: April 29, 2012

New on LLRX – Opening Government: On the Limits of FOIA and the Metaphor of Transparency

Via LLRX.com – Opening Government: On the Limits of FOIA and the Metaphor of Transparency – Professor Annmarie Bridy discusses the use of “transparency” as a metaphor for openness in government, the use of FOIA as a mechanism for ensuring such openness, and the ways in which proponents of greater public involvement in policy-making may… Continue Reading

BJS: Jail Inmates at Midyear 2011 – Statistical Tables

News release: “The U.S. jail inmate population declined for a third consecutive year, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. From June 2010 to June 2011, the jail inmate population declined 1.8 percent, dropping to 735,601 from 748,728. Local jails, unlike prisons, are confinement facilities mainly operated by a local law enforcement agency.… Continue Reading

EIA Monthly Energy Review, April 2012

“A publication of recent energy statistics. This publication, Monthly Energy Review, April 2012, includes total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversions values.” Continue Reading