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Just launched: FOIA wiki
This is very cool. Check out — and bookmark right away! — the just released FOIA wiki. This looks to be a great resource not just for journalists, but for researchers of all stripes as they wend their way through the arcane and sometimes frustrating world of FOIA. And while you’re at it, check out […]
NBIB hires KeyPoint, same company suspected of blame in OPM breach
According to Reuters, The company called KeyPoint, a “private company whose login credentials were used in hack attacks that looted the personal data of 22 million current and former federal employees” from the US Office of Personnel Management has now won a major contract for security clearance process from the new agency created because of […]
GPO & Library of Congress begin release of digitized Congressional Record
This is good news. Today GPO announced the first release of digitized volumes of the Congressional Record, part of a collaborative project between GPO and the Library of Congress. The plan is to go back to volume 1, 1873. So stay tuned for additional releases. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the Library […]
Nominations sought for the U.S. Federal Government Domain End of Term Web Archive
Some of our readers may have seen this announcement already. But in case not, we need your help to preserve the .gov domain. See the announcement below to find out how. How would YOU like to help preserve the United States federal government .web domain for future generations? But, that’s too huge of a swath […]
Systematic bias at the US Copyright Office
Wow, just … wow! Go right now and download (or better yet, store a copy in your local repository like we’re going to do!) Public Knowledge’s new report about the US Copyright Office entitled Captured: Systemic Bias at the US Copyright Office. This is how a completely unaccountable government agency runs roughshod over the public […]
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