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FGI Document of the day: CRS report on legal considerations for postponing federal elections
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) at the Library of Congress is “Congress’ think tank.” Their reports are great resources on a wide variety of issues — don’t forget to look at the footnotes for more context and legislative histories! Some Congressperson must have been thinking about the ramifications of postponing the November elections due to […]
Check out these .gov webinars, training opportunities and crowdsourcing projects while you’re telecommuting during COVID-19
This surely is a surreal time as counties around the San Francisco Bay area are issuing “shelter in place” orders until at least April 7, 2020 and other cities around the country have already or will soon be following suit in order to try and curb the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). As we scramble […]
Hot off the presses: “Science, Technology, & Democracy: Building a Modern Congressional Technology Assessment Office”
This new report entitled “Science, Technology, & Democracy: Building a Modern Congressional Technology Assessment Office” just dropped from Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. We think this is extremely timely and important given the state of the world and the great need for far-reaching US public policy on science and technology […]
Sunlight’s Web Integrity Project shutting down. A sad day for govt oversight and transparency
This is bad news for government transparency advocates. The Sunlight Foundation shut down its Web Integrity Project (WIP) yesterday. WIP was created almost two years ago and was tracking “tens of thousands of federal government webpages each week, has reported on and sourced hundreds of stories about federal websites, has provided materials for congressional oversight, […]
FOIA Advisory Committee 2018-2020 term recommendations coming into focus
The most recent quarterly meeting of NARA’s FOIA Advisory Committee (of which I’m a member) occurred last friday (12/6/19). You can watch the entire meeting as it was live-streamed on NARA’s YouTube channel (below). I consider myself fortunate to be able to work with this committee — 1/2 of its members are FOIA officers at […]
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