From the Sunlight Foundation:
So this is a cool new resource. One with a definite opinion about the role of money in politics.
Follow the Oil Money is a new website that tracks which oil companies are pumping their money into politics, who is receiving it, and how it correlates to key climate, energy and other votes. [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2008
Follow the Oil Money
EPA may have lost data in hasty library closures
From Federal Computer Week:
The Environmental Protection Agency moved too quickly in closing some of its research libraries and may have lost some files as a result, government auditors recently testified before a House panel.
EPA’s push to digitize its libraries led to the rushed closings, said John Stephenson, director of natural resources and environment at the [...]
CPSC Continues Community Outreach and Education
From the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:
Consumers are bombarded with news and information every day. Important safety information may be missed by parents due to the hectic pace of the day. Now, caregivers and consumers in New York City and across the country have an easy way to keep their families safe in their homes.
The [...]
From Red Light to Green Light: Copyright Issues in Digitizing Photographs in Library Collections
From Infopeople:
Libraries are making innovative use of their local treasures. The Library of Congress is sharing a sampling of its rich collection on Flickr, as well continuing to make its own American Memory site a must visit. If your library has been digitizing some of its treasures to put online, stop into this webcast for [...]
Washington Lets In More Sunshine, But Halls of Power Are Still Too Dark
From OpenSecrets.org:
Since Sunshine Week 2007, a few rays of sunlight have lit up Congress and the Bush administration in the form of ethics legislation and other bills mandating fuller disclosure. As these changes are implemented, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics is examining their effects on the public’s ability to know what’s going on in [...]
Did the US gov’t sell exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West?
From Boing Boing:
Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes,
John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation alerted me to a situation about a month ago that we’ve been pursuing (with EFF’s help) at the Government Accountability Office, which is an arm of the U.S. Congress.
The law librarians at GAO have compiled complete federal legislative histories from 1915 on. These [...]
Library Legislative Day 2008 Update
From the California Library Association:
Library Legislative Day in Sacramento will be held on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 and our network of Legislative Contacts is busy making appointments with legislators to discuss topics of interest to the library community.
FOI in Practice: Analysis of the Mexican FOI System – Measuring the Complexity of Information Requests and Quality of Government Responses in Mexico
From the National Security Archive:
In celebration of Sunshine Week, the National Security Archive’s Mexico Project publishes today a new study of Mexico’s transparency law: “FOI in Practice: Measuring the Complexity of Information Requests and Quality of Government Responses in Mexico.”
The study represents the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican freedom of information law: what information [...]
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers’ Clicks
From the New York Times:
After reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law.
So he drafted a bill, now gathering support in Albany, that would make it a crime — punishable by [...]
Candidates’ Passport Files Breached
From the Associated Press:
At least four State Department workers pried into the supposedly secure passport files of presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, abashed officials admitted Friday in a revelation that had Condoleezza Rice promising a full investigation and telephoning the candidates to apologize personally.