Dorobek Must Reads – June 17

Each day, the DorobekInsider team searches the Web for the stories most important to the federal community. We gather them so you don’t have to.

• Court OKs search of policeman’s sexy text messages (Federal News Radio)
• Agencies must justify non-competitive contracts (GovExec)
• Justice Department sues Oracle for alleged overcharging (Cnet)
• Who owns public crime data? (TechDirt)
• Google shadow over new media groups (Financial Times)
• FEMA, NOAA use social media for public awareness (FEMA/NOAA)
• NASA technology leads to better medical decisions (O’Reilly Media)
• Manor, Texas experiments with participatory budgeting (Dustin’s Posterous)
• Privacy groups urge Facebook to make more changes (LA Times)
• New app lets you track your representative (GeoCongress)

And here’s a list of what you made most popular yesterday:

1. Government still faces numerous teleworking challenges
2. How to get your TSP questions answered
3. Are Katrina/Deepwater comparisons appropriate?
4. Rep. Towns supports MMS restructuring
5. Obama orders cuts in federal building costs
6. Military Health System works out e-record kinks
7. Dorobek Must Reads – June 15
8. Is blaming the MMS really fair?
9. Senate cybersecurity bill: one step closer to passing
10. A look at the level of technology in federal offices

Think we missed something? Send us your Must Reads via email.