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CFPB considering plan to shut down public database of consumer complaints against banks
Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Mick Mulvaney is considering a plan to shut down the public access to the CFPB database of bank complaints against financial institutions. A coalition of organizations — including the American Library Association (ALA)! — has written to Acting Director Mulvaney to protest his plan to end […]
EveryCRSReport.com launches. Public cheers. Congressional privilege intact
OMG I am so excited. This morning, Daniel Schuman and the fine folks at DemandProgress announced the launch of EveryCRSReport.com, a new website with 8,200 CRS reports from the Library of Congress’ Congressional Research Service (CRS), and more coming. This is so awesome because CRS reports, written by experts in “Congress’ Think Tank,” have long […]
Open San Diego launches Flashlight to improve public access to government information
San Diego Citybeat's Dave Maass is leading a project to help San Diegans obtain public records and other data from government agencies. Produced under the Open San Diego umbrella, it's called Flashlight:
Open San Diego Flashlight is basically a big collection of bookmarks for San Diego’s enterprising community of journalists, researchers, citizen watchdogs, muckrakers and data nerds. This site contains hundreds of links to free databases, maps, records, archives and searches—each tagged and categorized for quick, convenient access.This FishbowlLA story takes a look at Flashlight along with a similar "Fishbowl" endeavor being undertaken by the LA Times: Southern California Papers Helping Wage Public Records Transparency War. Continue reading
Congressional hearing on access to publicly-funded research
According to the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a public hearing is scheduled for next Thursday, 29 July 2010, on the topic of access to publicly-funded research. The hearing will be held by the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives to understand the challenges, impact, and opportunities for increased access. More details are available on the press release:
Continue readingCRS Reports to the People! Part III
Even with this year's introduction of S.Res. 118 and H.R. 3762, it is still important to encourage our Government to make Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports publicly accessible online! Thus, I finally updated the latest list of Bills and contact information for the sponsoring Congressmen in the Delicious.com "CRS" tag Delicious.com "CRS" tag. See also: CRS Reports to the People! Part 1 and Part 2 for more information on how to contact/write to your Congressmen. Continue reading
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