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Carl Malamud fighting for public information
A story about Carl Malamud’s long fight to keep public information public. Details his current fight against a lawsuit that seeks to keep laws that cover building codes, plumbing regulations, and product safety rules for baby seats accessible only for a fee. Carl Malamud has standards by Steven Levy, Backchannel (Sep 12, 2016). For the […]
CIA IG office “mistakenly” deletes Senate report on CIA torture
This is why US government information needs to be preserved off of .gov servers by FDLP libraries and other non-governmental organizations. It’s not enough that each agency has an Inspector General. Each agency should have one or more libraries collecting, preserving and giving access to its information *regardless* of political embarrassment or any other excuse […]
FOIA’d docs reveal how Obama Administration killed FOIA reform
This is extremely disappointing, especially given Obama’s presidential memorandum, signed on his first day in office in 2009, that instructed all government agencies to “adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government.” The Obama […]
Act to prevent cuts to the National Health Interview Survey
Crucial content may be cut from one of the most valuable surveys that the U.S. Government does, the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). For more than 50 years, this survey has conducted personal household interviews and gathered data that helps track health status, health care access, and progress toward achieving national health objectives. The Minnesota […]
What was the biggest threat to a free press in 2015? Government Secrecy.
Jonathan Peters, the press freedom correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review and an attorney and an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, asks himself the question: “What was the most serious threat last year to a free press in the US?” His conclusion was that the biggest concern in 2015 was clearly […]
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