[govinfo] GovInfo News 1-24-2007
- From: "Patrice McDermott" <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:33 -0500
- Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers
- Logging data extracts puts some agencies in a bind -- Mandate forces changes
in who accesses information.
- ALA Madison Awards - Call for Nominations
Patrice McDermott, Executive Director
OpenTheGovernment.org
202-332-OPEN (6736)
www.openthegovernment.org
- UNABOMBER WAGES LEGAL BATTLE TO HALT THE SALE OF PAPERS
By SERGE F. KOVALESKI
Nine years after he began serving a life sentence for the Unabomber crimes,
Theodore J. Kaczynski is fighting to reclaim more than 40,000 pages of his
writings and correspondence so he can preserve them in their rawest form for
the public to read. The journals contain blunt assessments of 16 mail
bombings from 1978 to 1995 that killed 3 people and injured 28, as well as his
musings on the suffering of victims and their families. The government wants to
auction sanitized versions of the materials on the Internet to raise money for
four of Mr. Kaczynski's victims. But, citing the First Amendment, Mr. Kaczynski
has argued in court filings that the government is not entitled to his writings
and has no right to alter them. In a motion drafted in pen, he said he planned
to argue that the government had too much discretion under a federal
restitution law to confiscate writings. more [NYT]
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- LOGGING DATA EXTRACTS PUTS SOME AGENCIES IN A BIND -- MANDATE FORCES CHANGES
IN WHO ACCESSES INFORMATION
01/22/07
By Jason Miller
A requirement in the Office of Management and Budget's June 23 data security
memo goes beyond basic policy and technology adjustments. It can fundamentally
change an agency's approach to collecting, disseminating and securing
data-which is perhaps why agencies have had so much trouble with it.
OMB gave agencies 45 days to begin logging all computer-readable data extracts,
and after 90 days, verify if the data has been erased or still is needed. Very
few agencies-if any-have met this most challenging mandate of the four,
industry and federal experts said. more [GCN]
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- ALA MADISON AWARDS - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ALA is currently accepting nominations for both the James Madison Award and the
Eileen Cooke State & Local Madison Award. If you know a person or group that
fits either of the descriptions below, and would like to nominate that person
or group, please send your nomination to Miriam Nisbet.
Each year, on Freedom of Information Day, the James Madison Award and the
Eileen Cooke State & Local Madison Award are presented by the American Library
Association to recognize those individuals or groups that have championed,
protected, and promoted public access to government information and the
public's right to know.
The award named for President James Madison was established in 1986 and is
presented annually on the anniversary of his birth.
The award named for Eileen Cooke, former director of the ALA Washington Office,
honors an extraordinary leader in building grassroots awareness of core library
issues including access to information. Cooke was a tireless advocate for the
public's right to know and a mentor to many librarians and trustees.
2007 marks the 41st anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, the third
year that ALA will make the Eileen Cooke Madison Award, and the 18th year that
ALA will make the James Madison award. This year's awards will be presented on
March 16, 2007, at Freedom of Information Day.
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