Submitted by rachelcrew
on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The White House has recently released additional documents to CREW in response to our lawsuit filed against the Executive Office of the President (EOP), the Office of Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) back in September 2007. CREW’s lawsuit stemmed from the millions of e-mails that were improperly ...
Submitted by rachelcrew
on Thursday, January 28, 2010
On January 21, 2010, CREW received the fifteenth installment of documents in a series of responses to our FOIA request sent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection regarding the construction of fencing along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. CREW has received hundreds of documents from U.S. Customs and ...
Submitted by rachelcrew
on Thursday, January 07, 2010
Today, CREW posted four documents we received from the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to our November 10, 2009 FOIA request. CREW filed FOIA requests with the GSA, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Internal Revenue Service seeking records related to savings from the e-Government Travel Service (e-Gov Travel), a web-based travel management service provided to the federal government by three contractors. When the $450 million e-Gov Travel contract was awarded in ...
Submitted by rachelcrew
on Friday, December 18, 2009
After over three years of waiting for a response, CREW finally received documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) on Wednesday related to our FOIA request from 2006. CREW had originally sent FOIA requests to the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the
Submitted by rachelcrew
on Thursday, December 10, 2009
On December 7th, 2009, CREW received a new batch of documents pertaining to our FOIA request sent to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), asking for all records in the agency’s possession mentioning or relating to the causes associated with global warming or climate change. The FOIA request was filed in May of 2006 after media
Submitted by admin
on Friday, November 06, 2009
Today, CREW filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seeking documents related to the policies and practices the agency is following with respect to the distribution of the H1N1 vaccine. CREW’s FOIA request is in response to the public outrage over
Submitted by efidler
on Wednesday, November 04, 2009
On October 21, 2009, CREW received another set of documents it garnered from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) relating to Ray L. Hunt, Hunt Consolidated, Inc., and the construction of fencing along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. DHS’s selection of locations for construction of fencing along the southern U.S. border has been the subject of extensive media coverage and ...
Submitted by chertz
on Thursday, November 08, 2007
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in conjunction with a coalition of government watchdog groups, launched a new online government document database, governmentdocs.orgon Thursday, November 8.
The database houses Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses, and other government documents, from a number of organizations, that can be browsed, searched and reviewed. It is the only one of its kind.
Organizations including CREW, Project on Government ...
Submitted by rbewley
on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
GovernmentDocs.org will be unavailable Thursday, October 18th from 8am until 8pm EDT as we perform scheduled maintenance and systemwide optimization.
Zylab, the company that develops the OCR backend of GovernmentDocs.org, will be on-site assisting us as we optimize site performance. The two components we are working on are Search and OCR Capacity.
Specifically, we will be working with Zylab to create a more robust implementation of their search ...
Submitted by admin
on Friday, September 21, 2007
Version 1.0 of the FOIA Document Review System (DRS) has been built using the a software stack composed of Windows Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server and .NET Framework Version 2.0. Additionally, CREW has licensed ZyLAB’s ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform (IAP) and integrated this software package as the engine for document processing, storage, management and display. The website will be run on three powerful Dell servers and hosted at the Equinix Ashburn data ...
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