Federal Gun Datasets Being Preserved in Fear Feds Will Withdraw Them
Wired reports today that research data on guns and violence have been suppressed in the past and that researchers are working to ensure that similar data on the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are not lost if […]
Preliminary List of Official White House Twitter Accounts
whitehouse45 A public list by Ari Herzog.
FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email
TechCrunch and The Daily Dot report that the FBI will no longer accept Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by email starting next month. FBI axes FOIA requests by email, so dust off your fax machine, by Taylor Hatmaker TechCrunch (Feb 6, 2017). FBI will revert to using fax machines, snail mail for FOIA requests, […]
Trump FCC rescinds and revokes reports and actions
On Friday February 3, 2017, the FCC rescinded and revoked orders and reports that had been issued late in the Obama administration. Some of the reports can be found under transition.fcc.gov, but it is not clear if there are links to them from fcc.gov or if they will remain available to the public. The Benton […]
Trump’s fleeting tweets alarm archivists
Politico reports that some, but not all, of the tweets from @realDonaldTrump show up on the official Twitter handle @POTUS. The article also says, “Trump’s aides have also used their own unofficial Twitter accounts to speak to voters. And on occasion, both the president and his advisers have scrubbed posts after they’ve gone up — […]