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• Lansing City Council committee sends FOIA policy back to city attorney for more work

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 602
  LANSING — After Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith spent Wednesday afternoon explaining the policies and procedures he and his working group on Freedom of Information Act adherence put together in the last two weeks to the Lansing City Council ’s Public Safety Committee, the committee sent Smith back to the ...
  8 hours ago

• Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 131
  In all three cases, after other Homeland Security Department officials raised concerns, copies of the reports were destroyed. The agency also held a workshop on intelligence-gathering "while ensuring the protection of civil rights and civil liberties..."More Articles
  10 hours ago

• Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Documents released Wednesday show several cases in which the Department of Homeland Security improperly collected information about citizens or lawful residents.
  21 hours ago

• Prince Charles faces fresh policy meddling claim

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Documents reveal princes aides tried to influence policy Prince Charles was tonight facing fresh accusations of meddling in government policy after it emerged that he had written directly to ministers in eight Whitehall departments over the last three years. The heir to the throne, who has strong views on the ...
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• White House Uncovers 22 Million Bush Emails

  
  That's Right Nate — Authority: 124
  This week the White House settled two lawsuits from activist groups filed in 2007 related to millions of missing White House emails.  While I am unhappy to see the Obama White House once again surrendering and I don’t believe what went on during the Bush administration is anybody’s business, I do believe the ...
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• Newspaper’s FOIA Request Yields Pages Of Blacked-Out Documents

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 782
  When President Obama took office, he earned widespread praise for loosening up Bush-era restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which outlines the process by which citizens can request previously unreleased information from federal agencies. The FOIA has been rightly hailed as a valuable ...
  2 days ago

• 22 Million E-Mails Missing From Bush White House Found

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 139
  By Kim Zetter Wired | White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press. The discovery was announced Monday by the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility ...
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• ‘Unethical’ bloggers, take note

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 118
  At the presentation of the 2009 ExxonMobil Journalism Awards, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein drew a line between some bloggers and local journalists. The former, he emphasised, do not adhere to the rules and ethics of journalism while the latter do. In other words, bloggers as a whole should hold local ...
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• Found! 22 Million Missing E-mails From Bush White House

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 564
  PETE YOST writes on Huffington Post : WASHINGTON — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two ...
  2 days ago

• A New Model for National Governance must be built upon Laws and the Rule of Law: not promises, not “feel good” weasel words

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 133
  One Christmas afternoon way back found me sitting alone, homesick and sorry for myself in a crowded pub somewhere in London listening to Chrissie Hynde sing “2000 miles”. I won’t say there were thoughts of suicide running through my head but there is little doubt that the more Jack Daniel’s “sour mash ...
  2 days ago

• Nigerian Anti-Corruption Activists Demand: Let the Sun Shine in

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 666
  Part 2 of an interview with David Ugolor, head of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice . [ In part I , African Network for Environment and Economic Justice executive director described how Halliburton poured more than 180 million dollars into bribing…
  3 days ago

• Landslide: The right to know

  
  Colour Blind — Authority: 133
  thestar Monday November 30, 2009 Landslide survivors still trying to cope By JAYAGANDI JAYARAJ IT has been almost a year since the Dec 6 landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa, but for Datuk Shaharuddin Adnan, the tragedy is not an easy one to forget. The incident keeps playing on his mind especially since the ...
  3 days ago

• Barbados PM breaks ground on billion dollar project – No conflict of interest rules apply!

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 133
  Freedom of Information Request #2009-3 To: Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson Dear Prime Minister, Under the Freedom of Information legislation of Barbados, I demand to know how many current and former politicians and members of their immediate families have an interest in any way in the Port Ferdinand marina ...
  3 days ago

• Gov 2.0 Draft Report needs to toughen up.

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 130
  The following are comments Ive offered on the Draft Report of the Gov 2.0 Task Force, which contains many worthy and commendable suggestions: "You need to toughen this draft up in the light of close to 30 years of experience since the last attempt at open government principles through the Freedom of ...
  4 days ago

• “America’s Army” Recruitment Video Game Cost Taxpayers $33M

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 511
  Source: BNet The U.S. Army cost the taxpayer $32.8 million in developing the online videogame America’s Army, a recruitment tool, according to GameSpot. The costs were spread over 10 years. The game was developed as part of the Army’s recruitment advertising efforts. All branches of the military combined spent ...
  4 days ago

• Twitter Tapping - government agents tracking public information

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 144
  An NY TImes editorial Twitter Tapping discusses a Freedom of Information Act suit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. There is widespread understanding that government agents are snooping around ...
  4 days ago

• Meet Stephen McIntyre: Amateur Runs Rings Around Climate ‘Professionals’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  Canada’s Macleans has a profile of the skeptic at the center of the ClimateGate e-mails (what, you expected an American newspaper to cover this story?): The private emails and logs leaked last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia can’t tell us whether industrial ...
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• How Does Someone Check Court Records Online

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
  If available, the name of the husband and wife, the date the marriage took place and the town in which it was officiated should be provided. If a certificate is needed for a fetal death, follow the same procedure as requesting a birth certificate.In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, Public Divorce ...
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• Government agencies nearly double their attempts to withhold records: Report

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 522
  From the Corpus Christi Caller-Times‘ Sara Foley:CORPUS CHRISTI — Requests that the Texas attorney general withhold information requested by the public increased 88 percent in five years, according to a Caller-Times analysis of state records.It’s a trend that open-government advocates say could indicate an abuse ...
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• Jack Straw should stop this shameful Cabinet cover-up

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  The Labour Party introduced the Freedom of Information Act but now seems determined to subvert it, says Alasdair Palmer.
  5 days ago

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