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“Libraries and Public Access to Federal Data”. Chris Marcum interviewed by Public Data Project
(full disclosure: I am a board member on the Public Data Project) On May 7, 2026, Molly Hardy, Project Lead for the Public Data Project, sat down for an interview with Chris Marcum, Senior Fellow for Data Policy at the Data Foundation and former Senior Statistician at the White House Office of Management and Budget […]
White House Office of Legal Counsel says Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. CRS begs to differ
In another ongoing saga of this administration attacking and looking to destroy the “administrative state,” the Justice Department’s shady Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — the same office which justified torture among many spurious secret legal opinions which FGI agrees should be publicly accessible! — released (on April 1 of all days!!) an opinion that […]
The ongoing destruction of executive branch agencies
We have been tracking the loss of government information here at FGI for a long time — following in the footsteps of the monumental ALA publication “Less Access to Less Information by and about the US Government”! We’re starting to see more reporting not about loss of specific government publications or datasets but about the […]
The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data
Our friend from the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), Gretchen Gehrke, just wrote an extremely important op-ed for The Hill. It is a succinct but powerful statement about what the Trump administration is doing to destroy the accessibility of federal data and the long-standing trust of the federal statistical ecosystem. I hope all of our […]
Federal government shutdown (10/1/2025)
The federal government has shut down as of 12:01 on October 1, 2025. This means that much of the federal government will not be operating and thousands of federal employees will be furloughed – check out Federal Harms Tracker for more. The Government Publishing Office (GPO) sent out this piece to the federal depository library […]
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