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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 […]
Vanishing Canadian Government Data
Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean’s investigation on the crisis in government data : Vanishing Canada: Why we’re all losers in Ottawa’s war on data by Anne Kingston, Maceans (September 18, 2015). “A months-long Maclean’s investigation, which includes interviews with dozens of academics, scientists, statisticians, economists and librarians, has found that the federal […]
No, Mr. Mayor. You may not copyright city council meeting videos.
Judge Rules That Inglewood, California Cannot Copyright Public Videos Slashdot (August 24, 2015). Recently a judge ruled in California that the city of Inglewood cannot hold copyrights of videos of public city council meetings which they published on their YouTube account and thus cannot sue individuals for copyright infringement for using them. In several YouTube […]
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