Sunlight Labs, creator of OpenCongress, has started a new wiki project for obtaining data files for legislation,
legislators and votes in each of the 50 states. Volunteers are welcome!
Hat tip to today’s Law Librarian Blog.
“Index of Bush-Era OLC Memoranda Relating to Interrogation, Detention, Rendition and/or Surveillance” is a newly updated chart available at the ACLU website. The “Status” column in the chart details if the memoranda are still secret or public. And, if a memo has been repudiated, there are details in the “Notes” column.
We love a good index.
Hat tip to TalkLeft.
Carl Malamud’s quest for the printing post made the New York Times. In the Lede blog, Robert Mackey writes about the Yes We Scan campaign and mentions the great support Malamud has gotten on Twitter and in the blogosphere. The Lede carries a great quote from Larry Lessig’s blog post on Malamud:
I can’t imagine a more exciting appointment. Sometimes an agency needs STASIS. Sometimes it needs CHANGE. Gov’t tech is certainly in the second category, and no one I know of could more effectively deliver on the commitment to open government than he.
Now, off to join the YesWeScan Facebook group…..
