CPT's Government Information Page

Useful Links

• CPT web page on special issues concerning access to legal information .
• "Pricing Government Information" by James Love, Director Consumer Project on Technology
• INFO-POLICY-NOTES , (formerly called TAP-INFO) is an internet publication produced by the Consumer Project on Technology. It often includes articles about citizen access to government information. You can subscribe to INFO-POLICY-NOTES by sending a message to LISTPROC@ESSENTIAL.ORG with the one line note in the body of the message: sub info-policy-notes jane doe (substitute your own name).
• Ralph Nader's September 21, 1996 Address to FOIndiana on Freedom of Information.
• The United States Information Agency's "secret" Web pages . Believe it not, the U.S. government cannot give out the URL http://www.usia.gov/usis.html to U.S. citizens unless you visit the agency in Washington, DC and ask in person. (Of course, it's not too hard to find this using standard search engines.) Our favorite page is the one that links to the embassy web sites. This "secret" web page is at http://www.usia.gov/regional/posts/posts.htm . We are involved in litigation over this issue.
• There is a story in the June 20, 1996 issue of Cybertimes about the lawsuit mentioned above. (The New York Times requires a password to access their site).
• Contact List federal FOIA officials