There is a new Community Immigration Law Center (CILC) in Madison. Although the Center does not represent clients, it does offer the following services: Brief consultations on basic legal immigration issues provided twice a month …
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Dane Co to Redact SSNs from County Records
WKOW reports that Dane County is installing software to redact the social security numbers from county records. They are the only county in the state to do so. Register of Deeds, Kristi Chlebowski indicated that …
Short Turn Around for Most Records Requests from Gov. Doyle's Office
The Appleton Post-Crescent reports that “most people requesting records from Gov. Jim Doyle’s office last year did not have to wait long to get them.” In their “fifth annual review of public records requests found …
Article about Carl Malamud's Crusade for Open Law
Thanks to Greg Lambert for passing on this CNet article about open-law activist, Carl Malamud. He’s devoted his life to liberating laws, regulations, court cases, and the other myriad detritus that governments produce daily, but …
Cheney Ordered to Preserve Official Records
“A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction yesterday ordering Vice President Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.” Read more at the Washington Post.
"We Expect to See the Wholesale Disappearance of Materials on Federal Agency Web Sites"
“Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post …
CyberCemetery Offers Defunct Government Web Sites
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: Looking for documents from a defunct government agency? You might dig it up at the CyberCemetery. This website is a collaboration of the University of North Texas and …
WLR Article Examines Wisconsin's Public Records Law in the Digital Age
The latest issue of the Wisconsin Law Review features a thought-provoking examination of state public records law in the digital age. “Wisconsin’s Public-Records Law: Preserving the Presumption of Complete Public Access in the Age of …
Exclusive Rights to GAO Legislative Histories Sold to Thomson West?
Boing Boing reports on Carl Malamud’s investigation of the exclusive deal in which the Government Accountability Office has contracted with Thomson West to provide complete federal legislative histories compiled by GAO law librarians. John Wonderlich …