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Rick Holgate, the chief information officer for the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announced he’s moving to the private sector.
August 24, 2015 -
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Altegrity, USIS’s parent company, agreed to forgo at least $30 million in fees the government owed it in return for not being held liable for alleged violations of the “dumping” or “flushing” security clearances over a 18-year period.
August 20, 2015 -
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There is a little more clarity about the mystery of Barry West, the seemingly now-former chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. West’s LinkedIn page says he left the FDIC in this month and also started at the Mason Harriman Group this month.
August 17, 2015 -
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Karl Mathias, the Marshals Service’s chief information officer, said his priorities include mobility, moving to the cloud and figuring out how best to address infrastructure support and maintenance needs.
August 14, 2015 -
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Michael Horowitz, inspector general at the Justice Department, says a recent decision by his agency's Office of Legal Counsel threatens the independent oversight of all IGs.
August 12, 2015 -
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A recent decision from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel says inspectors general must get permission from their agencies before gaining access to certain documents like grand jury, wiretap and credit information. The inspector general community says it's another attack against the independent oversight at the center of their responsibilities. The Senate Judiciary Committee largely agrees. Michael Horowitz is the inspector general at the Justice Department and director of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. He's leading the charge against the OLC's latest decision and tells In Depth with Francis Rose why it would make his job more difficult.
August 11, 2015 The Justice Department's Office of Information Policy is spearheading a proactive disclosure effort to measure the cost and effectiveness of making information from Freedom of Information Act requests available as soon as possible.
August 07, 2015-
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Seven agencies are trying out a new approach to making documents available under the Freedom of Information Act. The Justice Department's Office of Information Policy is spearheading a proactive disclosure effort to measure the cost and effectiveness of making information available as soon as it's requested. Melanie Pustay is the director of the Office of Information Policy at the Justice Department. She joined Jason Miller on the Federal Drive to explain more about the pilot and how it could change federal FOIA processes.
August 07, 2015 -
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Kshemendra Paul, the program manager of the Information Sharing Environment, said a recently completed effort lets federal, state and local public safety entities search multiple records to ensure they aren’t stepping on somebody’s toes. The concept of event deconfliction across previously disparate databases became a reality because of trust in the ISE-sponsored frameworks.
August 07, 2015 -
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The Senate Judiciary Committee mediates a crisis caused by a Justice Department legal opinion that says inspectors general should not automatically get access to all records they need for their investigations.
August 05, 2015 -
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The federal human resources community is losing a key member. Jeri Buchholz, the NASA chief human capital officer and assistant administrator for human capital management, is retiring on July 31. She is moving to industry…
July 27, 2015 -
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The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel says Inspectors General must get permission from their agencies before getting certain documents like grand jury, wiretap and credit information. But Inspectors General say they need independent access to information to do their jobs. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is asking for Congress' help now by pushing for a bill that would give IGs that access. Brian Miller is the managing director at Navigant and former inspector general at the General Services Administration. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about some of the contradictions he sees with this OLC opinion.
July 24, 2015 -
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A new report released by the Justice Department Inspector General’s office states that the DEA’s policies regarding use of high-risk confidential sources are out of compliance with the Attorney General’s guidelines. The IG says a lack of oversight for issues such as how sources are used, how actions in operations are sanctioned, and how benefits to sources are awarded could put operations at risk.
July 22, 2015 -
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Jeff Neely, the former General Services Administration official at the center of the Western Regions Conference scandal, will spend three months in prison and three months under home confinement. Neely had been placed on administrative leave in 2011 and later left the agency following revelations of a lavish $822,000 training conference held in Las Vegas.
July 01, 2015
