End-of-term crawl ongoing. Please help us do QA!
The End of Term 2016 collection is still going strong, and we continue to receive email from interested folks about how they can help. Much of the content for the EOT crawl has already been collected and some of it is publicly accessible already through our partners. Last month we posted about ways to help […]
PACER lawsuit certified as class action case
Lawsuit claiming public being milked for access to court records advances by David Kravets, arsTechnica (1/25/2017). A lawsuit that claims the public is being overcharged by the US government’s website for accessing federal court records just took a major step forward. A federal judge overseeing the litigation against PACER, the Public Access to Court Electronic […]
DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report discontinued
Gary Price at InfoDocket is an excellent source of fast changing information about government information. If you don’t already follow InfoDocket, now is a good time to start so you can stay on top of things. Gary called our attention to this: Another U.S. Gov Resource No Longer Available: DHS Stops Publishing “Daily Open Source […]
Popular Science Magazine explains importance of open government information
News of the Trump administration’s actions to control the release of scientific information are coming out fast today. After posting a few stories about the issue here, I realize that we at FGI will have to focus on substantive announcements and analyses rather than every hour-to-hour development. With that in mind, here is an article […]
Reuters reports Trump administration ordered EPA to cut climate page from website
Reuters is reporting that “U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website….The page could go down as early as Wednesday, the sources said.” Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources