MORE 'ACCESS-TO-INFORMATION' POSTS
Want To Be Like Jon Stewart? New Governmental Open Data Standards Are For You Forget leaked cables: There’s enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012. However, unless citizens have an entire team scouring government video for hilarious hypocrisy, like the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart does, […]
From a TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) Announcement: Details about every new court challenge to the withholding of information by the Obama Administration are now available on a new website developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Designed to bring more transparency to FOIA withholding decisions, the new site — http://FOIAproject.org — gives the American […]
The “Top Ten” list below is also included in the “State of Libraries 2011” report that we posted about and linked to earlier today. ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) reported 348 challenges during 2010. Here are the Top Ten: And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and […]
From the AP (via The Idaho Statesman) ‘ Legislation to require library computers to use filtering software to block content deemed offensive to minors has cleared the Idaho Legislature. [Clip] The measure was amended since first introduced in the 2011 session and now gives more libraries flexibility in blocking content and deciding when filters should […]
Digital Agenda/Trade: EU and US agree trade-related information and communication technology principles to be promoted world-wide The European Commission and the US Government, under the framework of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), have agreed on a set of ten fundamental principles for trade in information and communication technology (ICT) services. The EU and the US, […]
From a Sunlight Foundation Blog Post by Dan Schuman: Today Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) reintroduced the landmark Public Online Information Act. If enacted, POIA would bring the government into the 21st century by requiring the government to embrace the presumption that government-held information, already required to be public, must be […]
AALL, MLA, and SLA Ask For Oversight Hearings About EPA Library Network
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|From a AALL Washington Blawg Post: Today, AALL, the Medical Library Association and the Special Libraries Association sent a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, to urge her to hold additional oversight hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) library network. AALL has been concerned about EPA’s […]
Public access to documents: The European Commission proposes to extend rules to all EU institutions
|Public access to documents: The European Commission proposes to extend rules to all EU institutions The Commission has this week adopted a proposal extending the rules on public access to documents to all EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies. The proposal will bring current rules into line with the Lisbon Treaty. Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 […]
OpenNet Initiative: The Year in Review 2010 was an eventful year with respect to filtering and surveillance. “Among the year’s most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry services across Saudi Arabia, India, Bahrain, and other countries in the region as governments demanded increased access to data on RIM devices; the blocking of Facebook in […]
Here are a few resources that might be of interest: 1. FOI Day Reading List from the NYPL and Materials from the First Amendment Center (March 10, 2011) 2. Information About ALA’s Madison Awards that Will Be Presented Today & List of Past Winners 3. Freedom of Information Act Resources (via ALA) 5. FOIA.gov This […]