New Resource

Anastasia Tarmann Lynch — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:21:39 +0000

Hi all, I want to alert you to a site that pulls together information that I think we all may find useful and interesting for our patrons. The message below is the email I received today through the site’s subscription service.

There are reports on privacy and public access, criminal victimization, Attorney General firings, a Homeland Security Achievements fact sheet, and Military Base closures information. The site as a whole has consistently good legal, government and technical information. If you know of a similiar site, I would be interested in knowing about it.

Thanks!

Anastasia

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Criminal Victimization, 2006Press release: “Violent and property crime rates in United States urban and suburban communities remained stable between 2005 and 2006, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Last year BJS introduced a new sample of households and adopted automated data collection procedures that limited comparisons to urban and suburban areas.”

The report, Criminal Victimization, 2006 (NCJ-219413) was written by BJS statisticians Michael Rand and Shannan Catalano.

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government

Fact Sheet: Select Department of Homeland Security 2007 Achievements

Fact Sheet: Select Department of Homeland Security 2007 Achievements, December 12, 2007: Protecting the Nation from Dangerous People

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government

ABA Journal Names Gonzales, Mukasey Lawyers of the Year for 2007 and 2008

Press release: “Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been named 2007’s Lawyer of the Year by the ABA Journal, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association.”

“The top legal story of 2007 was unquestionably the unraveling of support for the Bush administration’s expansive view of presidential power during wartime, and with it, the slow-motion destruction of Alberto Gonzales’ reign as U.S. attorney general,” according to the magazine’s January cover story. “Add to that the controversy over whether the administration fired eight U.S. attorneys for political reasons, and no single lawyer made more news in 2007 than Gonzales.”

Topic(s): Legal Research, Government Documents

CBO Reports: Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005

Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005, December 2007 and Supplemental Tables

Topic(s): E-Government, Government Documents

Homeland Security Institute Releases Reports on Strategic Planning, Terrorist Attacks

Homeland Security Strategic Planning: Mission Area Analysis, March 28, 2007

Underlying Reasons for Success and Failure of Terrorist Attacks: Selected Case Studies, June 4, 2007

2007 Homeland Security Science and Technology Stakeholders Conference, held May 21–24, 2007 -Available presentations

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government

Privacy, Public Access and Policymaking in State Redaction Practices

Government Technology: “A new white paper designed to help public officials develop policies for removing Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from public documents is now available online. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), in collaboration with the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (eC3), today released a joint white paper on redaction entitled Privacy, Public Access & Policymaking in State Redaction Practices. Developed with input from leading experts in government, academia and the private sector, the paper is the first national report specifically written for state and local leaders coping with data security issues in public records.”

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government, E-Records

New GAO Reports: Military Base Realignments and Closures, Toxic Chemical Releases

Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased and Estimated Savings Have Decreased, GAO-08-341T, December 12, 2007

Smithsonian Institution: Status of Efforts to Address a Range of Funding and Governance Challenges, GAO-08-250T, December 12, 2007

Toxic Chemical Releases: EPA Actions Could Reduce Environmental Information Available to Many Communities, GAO-08-128, November 30, 2007

Toxic Chemical Releases: Survey of State Toxics Release Inventory Coordinators (GAO-08-129SP), an E-supplement to GAO-08-128 GAO-08-129SP, November 30, 2007

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government

Committee Report: White House Engaged in Systematic Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science

“For the past 16 months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating allegations of political interference with government climate change science under the Bush Administration. During the course of this investigation, the Committee obtained over 27,000 pages of documents from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Commerce Department, held two investigative hearings, and deposed or interviewed key officials. Much of the information made available to the Committee has never been publicly disclosed. This report presents the findings of the Committee’s investigation. The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming.”

Report: Political Interference with Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration (38 pages, PDF)

Supporting Documents, Part 1 (148 pages, PDF)

Supporting Documents, Part 2 (26 pages, PDF)

Supporting Documents, Part 3 (144 pages, PDF)

Related postings on climate change

Topic(s): Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

DOJ Annual Financial Statement FY2007

U.S. Department of Justice Annual Financial Statement Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-01, December 2007 (Commentary and Summary Only)

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government

FCC Response to GAO Report on the DTV Transition

Follow up to the GAO report, Digital Television Transition: Increased Federal Planning and Risk Management Could Further Facilitate the DTV Transition, GAO-08-43, November 19, 2007, the FCC Written Response to the GAO Report on DTV, December 11, 2007.

“One of the most important responsibilities of the Commission, with respect to the nation’s transition to digital television, has been to shepherd the transformation of television stations from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting. Currently, 95% of all full power television stations (1,636 stations) are broadcasting in digital, and over 99% of stations (1,706 stations) have been assigned a final post-transition channel for operations. [Note: The GAO’s Draft Report incorrectly states that “approximately 90 percent” of television stations are providing a broadcast signal. (p. 14)] It has taken a series of complicated steps, spanning over two decades, in order to get to this point.”

Topic(s): Government Documents, E-Government

Search beSpacific archives back to September 2002 at http://www.beSpacific.com

AnaTLynch's Blog » legal

New Resource