[govinfo] GovInfo News 4-13-2007

  • From: "Patrice McDermott" <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:44:03 -0400

- Freedom of Information Act Guide 2007
- World Bank Developing Country-by-Country Database on Access Laws
- House Panel Subpoenas Gonzales for Documents

Patrice McDermott, Director
OpenTheGovernment.org
www.openthegovernment.org
202.332.OPEN (6736)

- FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT GUIDE 2007
US DOJ Office of Information and Privacy

The March 2007 edition of the FOIA Guide contains a newly updated and revised 
discussion of the procedural requirements of the FOIA, the contours of the 
FOIA's nine exemptions and three exclusions, as well as the considerations 
applicable to FOIA litigation. This latest edition of the FOIA Guide also 
contains an overview of Executive Order 13,392, entitled "Improving Agency 
Disclosure of Information." Guide

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- WORLD BANK DEVELOPING COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY DATABASE ON ACCESS LAWS
The World Bank is well on its way to developing a country-by-country database 
"on various transparency and accountability institutions in developing 
countries," freedominfo.org has learned. The new database, which may be posted 
online in a month or so, will summarize national laws on asset disclosure, 
conflict of interest, freedom of information, and immunity provisions. The Bank 
also has developed a set of "good practices" against which to measure country 
laws, according to information provided by Bank officials. more

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- HOUSE PANEL SUBPOENAS GONZALES FOR DOCUMENTS
By Dan Eggen
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto R. 
Gonzales today seeking hundreds of pages of new or uncensored records related 
to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, officials said.
It is the first subpoena to be issued in connection with the dismissals and 
escalates the confrontation between Democrats and the Bush administration, 
which has resisted demands for more documents and for public testimony from 
White House aides about the dismissals. more [WPost]

Links:
Documents related to the firings

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