http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/

Provides text of executive order of President Obama relating to openness of presidential records. Restricts to the incumbent president the power to assert constitutional privileges to restrict presidential information from the public. Reverses executive order of President Bush which provided broad discretion to former presidents and vice presidents and their heirs to withhold presidential records from the public. From the White House

http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/StateGovernment/BlueBook/report.cfm

Annual publication which lists the officers of Virginia state government including members of all boards, councils, and commissions. From the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth

http://www.archives.gov/isoo/reports/2008-annual-report.pdf

Provides latest annual information on the status of the security classification program of the federal government, including statistics on the quantity of document classification and analysis of key components of the system. Reports that federal agencies declassified 31 million pages of historically valuable records in 2008. From the Information Security Oversight Office.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34722.pdf

Covers midnight rulemaking, executive orders, disposition of government records, national security and the transition, political to career movement otherwise known as burrowing in, political appointments, and the treatment of the executive budget in transition years. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12452

Shows government agencies how to evaluate data mining programs to determine their effectiveness, lawfulness, and impact on privacy rights. From the National Research Council.

http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/

Represents a collaborative effort by many federal agencies to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize books, manuscripts, audiovisual material and so forth. Hosted by the Library of Congress.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/crew092008.pdf

Ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that requires the preservation of all records of the Office of the Vice President. The lawsuit had alleged that the Vice President had improperly limited the scope of records that would be preserved under the Presidential Records Act. Posted by the Federation of American Scientists.

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0809/final.pdf

Reports the results of an investigation that found former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had violated Justice Department security requirements when he mishandled classified materials regarding two highly sensitive programs, including the National Security Agency surveillance program. From the Office of the Inspector General of the Justice Department.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2008/07/nrc072908.html#more

Press release with link to Federal Register notice seeking comment on how to make available to the public more security-related inspection and license performance information. The move toward greater openness follows congressional anger about an undisclosed major safety event in 2006 at a Tennessee reactor. From the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08698.pdf

Discusses the so-called Regulation B of the Federal Reserve Board which prohibits lenders from collecting race or gender data on loan applications, previous studies on possible discrimination in nonmortgage lending and the data used in them, and the benefits and costs of a data collecting and reporting requirement. From the Government Accountability Office.

http://www.ise.gov/docs/reports/Annual-Report-to-Congress-20080702.pdf

Reports on progress toward sharing of information in the intelligence community, notes areas of significant progress, and stresses the value of the information sharing environment for the counterterrorism mission. From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.