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28 Feb 2012, 7:38 am
The Sydney Morning Herald on February 29, 2012 released the following: "Revealed: US plans to charge Assange Philip Dorling UNITED STATES prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a confidential email obtained from the private US intelligence company Stratfor. In an internal email to Stratfor analysts on January 26 last year, the vice-president of intelligence, Fred Burton, responded to a media report concerning US investigations targeting… [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 4:20 am
Freedom of information (FOI) laws are important, in that they are supposed to provide citizens with access to information that is under the control of government institutions. However, the FOI request process is cumbersome and confusing, and many requests are rejected with little or no explanation. In Canada, the Access to Information Act applies to federal government institutions, and each province has its own FOI statute(s), all of which operate in a similar manner. In Ontario, for… [read post]
10 May 2011, 4:00 am
I know that it has been a while since the agriculture community has talked about the National Animal Identification System (“NAIS”). As most of my readers know, the program is managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (“APHIS”) and participation is currently voluntary. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) expressed concern over NAIS. In February 2010, Secretary Vilsack announced that the USDA was… [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 9:33 pm
[NOTE: In addition to the call for proposals described on this post, readers may be interested in the call for proposals for 2010 e-Justice Action Grants, designated JLS/2010/JPEN/AG/EJ.]
A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 15 September 2010 — has been issued for Criminal Justice Action Grants, with the designation JLS/2010/JPEN/AG, by the EU Directorate General for Justice, Freedom, and Security.
Proposals are invited on the following legal informatics topics:
Interconnection of… [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 4:41 pm
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this month released and posted a valuable new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-related report:
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Background and Policy Options for the 113th Congress
By Wendy Ginsberg, Analyst in American National Government
March 8, 2013
R41933
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
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31 Aug 2012, 8:48 am
Our Australian colleagues refer to their country as OZ, and there is no doubt that the employees of the government agency CenITex wish they could click their heels like Dorothy and not be front-page news anymore. The recent Freedom of Information request dispute with The Age newspaper suggests that the Victorian government is in dire need of archiving and eDiscovery technologies. On August 20, ITPro reported that CenITex (the government’s Centre for Information Technology Excellence) would need to… [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 8:48 am
Our Australian colleagues refer to their country as OZ, and there is no doubt that the employees of the government agency CenITex wish they could click their heels like Dorothy and not be front-page news anymore. The recent Freedom of Information request dispute with The Age newspaper suggests that the Victorian government is in dire need of archiving and eDiscovery technologies. On August 20, ITPro reported that CenITex (the government’s Centre for Information Technology Excellence) would need to… [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 7:54 pm
The New York Times on September 27, 2011 released the following: "By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government's terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents. The files, released by the F.B.I. under the Freedom of Information Act, disclose how the police are instructed to react if they encounter a person on the list. They lay… [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 7:00 am
As we've mentioned previously, the Law Library has a great news service called the Global Legal Monitor. Often these stories about legal developments in many different jurisdictions are ones that don't feature in U.S. newspapers or news programs, and they link or refer to a wide range of different sources of information. On the homepage of the site we provide links to both the latest articles and to the five most viewed articles for the week. I thought it would be interesting to see what people have… [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 4:28 am
BUAV v Information Commissioner and Newcastle University (EA/2010/0064) – read judgment
There is no doubt that freedom of expression plays a starring role in the human rights fairy tale. While she is carried aloft on the soaring rhetoric of citizens’ rights from the newsrooms to protesters’ rallies, the right to information, her shy stepsister, is rarely allowed out. How can that be? Surely we can’t have the one without the other?
The key lies in the Strasbourg Court’s traditionally… [read post]
18 Oct 2012, 3:25 pm
The eagerly awaited Directive from The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was released at the end of August. In an attempt to go behind the scenes, we’ve asked the Project Management Office (PMO) and the Chief Records Officer for the NARA to respond to a few key questions.
We know that the Presidential Mandate was the impetus for the agency self-assessments that were submitted to NARA. Now that NARA and the OMB have distilled those… [read post]
28 Apr 2013, 2:57 pm
Bancoult v. Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Divisional Court, Richards LJ and Mitting J, 16-24 April 2013, judgment awaited, but see 25 July 2012, Stanley Burnton LJ for an earlier judgment
A quick update at the end of the recent judicial review on 24 April by the Chagossian islanders, but before judgment. They had challenged the designation of the waters around their islands as a Marine Protected Area.
I have posted on this saga before, which started with the Chagossians’ eviction… [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 4:13 am
This has been a hectic week so far, but as I was going through my google reader last night I thought the following posts from fellow legal bloggers were “noteworthy.”
1. Prof. Susan Schneider, the Director of the LLM Program in Agriculture and Food Law at the University of Arkansas notes here that she is heading [...] [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 2:06 am
Sugar (Deceased) (Represented by Fiona Paveley) (Appellant) v British Broadcasting Corporation (Respondent) [2012] UKSC 4 – Read judgment / press summary
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that an internal BBC report into its coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict was “information held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature” and therefore need not be released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Four of the justices were of the view that even if… [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 5:43 am
On Tuesday, July 20th, AILA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) seeking the release of records concerning agency policies and procedures for the H-1B visa program. AILA had attempted to obtain these documents under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which had been denied in full by USCIS.
This lawsuit focuses on the government’s H-1B visa review and processing procedures. Since 2008, USCIS has implemented… [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 6:25 am
Our firm handles a fair amount of appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases.
About the AAO
The AAO is an appeals office which handles appeals of certain decisions made by USCIS field offices and regional procssing centers. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that all AAO decisions be made available to the public. As a result,… [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 11:06 am
Our office handles a fair amount of appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases.
About the AAO
The AAO is an appeals office which handles appeals of certain decisions made by USCIS field offices and regional procssing centers. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that all AAO decisions be made available to the public. As a… [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 5:51 am
Our office handles a fair amount of appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases.
About the AAO
The AAO is an appeals office which handles appeals of certain decisions made by USCIS field offices and regional procssing centers. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that all AAO decisions be made available to the public. … [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 7:34 am
Our office handles a fair amount of appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases.
About the AAO
The AAO is an appeals office which handles appeals of certain decisions made by USCIS field offices and regional procssing centers. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that all AAO decisions be made available to the public. As a… [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 2:17 pm
Our office handles a fair amount of appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and we often receive inquiries not only about about the procedural aspects of an AAO appeal but also about the current processing times for AAO cases.
About the AAO
The AAO is an appeals office which handles appeals of certain decisions made by USCIS field offices and regional procssing centers. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that all AAO decisions be made available to the public. As a… [read post]