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CDC Activities and Initiatives Supporting the COVID-19 Response and the President’s Plan for Opening America U p Again
Journalists reported in May that CDC had created a 60 page + document on reopening for public distribution but that some administration appointees had blocked its release and issued instead a 17 page document of information they already published. A librarian searched CDC’s website and couldn’t find and therefore initiated a FOIA request. The 17 […]
Freedom of information case list
The Government Printing Office (GPO) cataloged the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Freedom of Information Case list. https://www.justice.gov/oip/court-decisions-overview One can find additional DOJ FOIA information on the website.
small business pulse survey (Census)
“The experimental Small Business Pulse Survey (Business Pulse) measures the changes in business conditions on our nation’s small businesses during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.” https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/small-business-pulse-survey.html GPO will catalog/archive. co-published on govdoc-l and freegovinfo.info.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) releases report on Congressionally Mandated Reports
Wow, the FirstBranchForecast was on fire this week (as it is most weeks!), announcing a new bill to protect Inspectors General, talking about the just-released FOIA Advisory Committee’s draft report available for public comment (submit yours via email to foia-advisory-committee@nara.gov through June 2), and also highlighting a new CRS report Congressionally Mandated Reports: Overview and […]
With Inspectors General firings in the news, Congress introduces bill to protect them
Inspectors General are a little known unit within many federal agencies. They were set up in the 1970s to “identify waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.” Their reports can be found on Oversight.gov as well as the non-governmental website Oversight.garden (there is some duplication between the sites, but the garden also posts some […]
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