Info & Access News Archive through 2000

Info & Access News Archive through 2000:

Archived news dating up through 2000

News

A Presumption of Disclosure: Lessons from the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board 12/21/2000
This report provides a profile of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (hereinafter the Review Board or Board), a public access success story of how millions of government records were set free from the 27 federal agencies that had kept them hidden for 30 years. The Board was very carefully and thoughtfully crafted and its inner workings over its 4-year term were complex; the story yields important insights for declassification policy and practice. Read More

Analysis of JFK Assassination Records Review Board 12/20/2000
As part of its Agenda for Access project, OMB Watch has released a case study of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board as a model for declassification and public access. This report is available in HTML and PDF.

Data Mining of Voter Information 11/06/2000
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Sign-On Letter Opposing Leak Statute 11/01/2000
OMB Watch and others sign on to letter to White House urging the President to veto the Intelligence Authorization Act because it, for the first time in American history, creates an "official secrets" act. Read More

What is E-Gov't ? How Will It Affect Us? 10/24/2000
E-Government is an exciting frontier. But technology alone is not going to get us there. What it is going to take to move to the kind of government that uses technology as a tool to provide greater accountability through better and more meaningful public access to government information is not bigger and faster servers or more powerful search engines. It is going to take the federal government – both government-wide and agency by agency – to get its information under control and begin to manage it so it can be identified, located and used over time. (Keynote Address by Patrice McDermott, Senior Policy Analyst, OMB Watch, to the National Institutes of Health Forum, Electronic Government: Recognizing the Challenges — Planning the Transition.) Read More

Testimony on FirstGov Web Portal 10/02/2000
The FirstGov web portal is a major accomplishment and the Clinton Administration should be justifiably proud of it. At the same time, there are major policy issues created by FirstGov that have been left unattended. (Statement of Patrice McDermott, Senior Policy Analyst, OMB Watch before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology of the House Committee on Government Reform on FirstGov.) Read More

Agenda for Access 09/20/2000
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Agenda for Access: Federal Government Information Access Policy 09/19/2000
Federal information and information technology policies, guidelines and directives: Read More

More Questions About FirstGov 08/10/2000
OMB Watch's second letter, addressed to Sally Katzen of the Office of Management and Budget and David Barram of General Services Administration, responds to the new PowerPoint presentation on the firstgov.gov site. While the presentation is much clearer than the first version, it also raises many questions and leaves many issues unanswered. Read More

Democracy's Strength -- An Informed Public 08/08/2000
Recently, the push has been to exempt Critical Infrastructure information from the FOIA. No one disagrees that there is some information that the public should not have, at least for a specified period of time — although there may be disagreements on the nature of that information and on the length of time. (Keynote address by Patrice McDermott, Senior Policy Analyst, OMB Watch, to US Department of Energy, Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Conference.) Read More

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