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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION & "RIGHT TO KNOW"

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"Right To Know" sites
  • CyberCemetery Archive of electronic Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.
  • Department of Justice FOIA Reference Materials The FOIA Guide, FOIA Basic Training Manual, FOIA Updates, much more.
  • Behind the Homefront "A daily chronicle of news in homeland security and military operations affecting news gathering, access to information and the public's right to know."
  • Citizens Against Government Waste Offers an interactive database which tracks the more than the 1,800 earmarks in the House version of the fiscal 2007 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 5647). The effort aims to make government more open and accountable by getting the public directly involved in tracking and researching earmarks.
  • The Memory Hole Extensive archive of public materials not found elsewhere, including Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports.
  • Miller Center of Public Affairs "The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs is a non-partisan, non-profit research institution. Its mission is to study, and inform the national and international policies of the United States, with a special emphasis on the American presidency." Includes: "A Brief History of Federal Executive Reorganization."
  • The National Security Archive Freedom of Information Act Audit, March 2003
  • OMBWatch Access to government information post-September 11.
  • Open Government A Journal on Freedom of Information.
  • Open Government Guide "A complete compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws. Each state's section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states."
  • OpenTheGovernment.org "OpenTheGovernment.org is an unprecedented coalition of journalists, consumer and good government groups, environmentalists, labor and others united out of a concern for what U.S. News and World Report called a "shroud of secrecy" descending over our local, state and federal governments. We're focused on making the federal government a more open place to make us safer, strengthen public trust in government, and support our democratic principles."
  • Project On Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists. Includes .pdfs of Defense Department directives and instructions, which have been removed from public access.
USA PATRIOT Act

The "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" Act, was introduced as H.R. 3162 in October, 2001. On October 26, 2001, it became Public Law 107-56. The text of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act may be found here.

This partial bibliography is for reference only. Any information obtained from the materials below is not to be considered legal advice. Inclusion in this list does not imply that the Law Library endorses these materials.
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