From: Jim Warren Subject: GovAccess.025: alt.whitehaus?;privacy;leginfo use;fed legis;judic rprt Mar.7, 1994 FOR DETAILS REGARDING "ALTERED WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENTS" From croberts@crl.com Sun Feb 20 17:54:03 1994 From: Char Roberts Subject: Re: Altered White House Documents - > ... But I didn't have your explicit permission to identify my > source, so protected yer privacy -- just in case. As I said in an earlier > GovAccess post, I much *prefer* to give full attribution to my sources -- > but will protect them in the default. :-) - I HAVE NO PRIVACY! :-) That story was plastered all over the world (we even heard from friends in Sweden who had heard or read it.) Personally I prefer to know who's saying what when *I* read stuff - and I have a good asbestos body suit so I don't mind the flames. ... &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& REGARDING SAFETY OF PERSONAL CRYPTO KEYS THAT THE GOVT WANTS TO STORE FOR US [The administration has now proposed billion-dollar legislation *requiring* that all law-abiding Americans' electronic communications be open to government-administration snoops - when permitted by any public or classified authority. Their related Clipper-chip proposal mandates that communications- scrambling keys be split in half with both halves "escrowed" with government agencies for whenever they wish to use them. However, "escrow" copies of our house keys are not required. So far. Grassroots-action plan will follow.] - Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 11:31:11 -0800 [via Dave Farber's list] From: David Honig Subject: Clipper: Love your country, don't trust its government [... Further comment after noting the CIA story:] So, you can buy a high ranking CIA person (who ran the *counter*intelligence branch for 2 years) for a measly $1.5 million. I wonder how much a pair of Clipper-key-escrow agency people will cost? &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& CALIF LEGINFO USAGE STATS - JUST FROM *ONE* EXTERNAL GOPHER From: Steve Watkins Tue Feb 22 17:23:30 1994 - ... Yes, it is the Senate's Gopher system that I had run across .... For your information, here are some more specific usage statistics, covering 26 days since I announced the files on InfoSlug on January 25th (we had two days of down time in early February). The leginfo stuff is part of a broader menu item called Guide to Government, which has lots of federal and some local resources as well, so the overall statistics for that category include use of other things too: Guide to Government 12,148 accesses California Code 9,219 California Bills 2,873 California Dailyfile 815 California Statues 148 I post usage statistics online in InfoSlug, updated every night, so if you have access to a gopher client, you can point it at gopher.ucsc.edu and pull them up anytime. If you don't have a client, we do provide a public telnet client: telnet to infoslug.ucsc.edu and login as either infoslug or gopher. The usage statistics are under the first main menu item About UCSC InfoSlug. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& MORE ON WASHINGTON POST'S LEGI-SLATE SYSTEM FOR ONLINE CONGRESSIONAL INFO From broseman@igc.apc.org Sun Feb 20 08:12:12 1994 [reformatted --jim] From: Barry D Roseman - I was surprised to see your alert that LEGI-SLATE material was available on the Internet now in a "prototype" version and that an up-to-date, more complete version was planned for July 1, 1994. After checking it out, I am less surprised. What they are offering is LEGI-SLATE Lite. You can read the text of bills, get information about their status, and get citations to other information, but you still cannot get anything close to the full amount of information that LEGI-SLATE receives from the Government Printing Office. In fact, a cynical view of the LEGI- SLATE Gopher is that it's a come-on, a teaser intended to convince people dissatisfied with its limitations to sign up for the more complete, fee-paid version of this service. - I feel it's commendable that LEGI-SLATE is offering even this limited information through its gopher (although my warm feelings would disappear if their motives were to forestall efforts to make U.S. legislative information available on the Internet). The fact remains, as you constantly point out, that government information should be freely available to taxpayers. Having a private organization make some of this information available for free is no substitute for the government making it available directly. - Keep up the good work and keep up the heat. It helps keep things cooking. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& IS CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL COUNSEL CLUTCHING ITS CHILD-SUPPORT REPORT ? From: Lou Ann Bassan <71753.1302@CompuServe.COM> Mon Feb 21 23:15:55 1994 - Remember the Judicial Council of California? The council is the policy making arm of the courts. One of its components is the Advisory Committee on Family Law. This committee is charged with preparing Child Support Guidelines; it shall study and submit a report to the legislature by 12/31/93 and it shall include a proposal for legislation, regarding a system of permanent child support guidelines to comply with Federal law. The report shall address the respective continuing roles of the Council and the Legislature in maintaining, amending or otherwise managing the statewide child support guidelines. ... - In developing the recommendations for the permanent guidelines, the Council shall seek public comment on the guidelines. The Council shall conduct a review of the existing guidelines to determine what revisions, if any, are necessary to ensure that application of the existing guidelines results in appropriate child support award amounts. This determination shall be based on economic data and the cost of raising children (Ed. -- which is not the same as typical expenditures by parents in intact families) and analysis of case data, gathered through sampling or other methods, on the application of, and deviations from, the guidelines. The analysis of the data shall be used to recommend revisions that ensure that deviations from the guidelines are limited. ****************** As you know, many people sent comments to Michael Fischer, Esq., who is an attorney and the clerk to the Advisory Committee. - We have learned that this report has been distributed to only two persons so far: Assemblyman Willie Brown, and Senator Gary Hart (yes, that one!). Mr. Fischer has said that the report is still being printed and is not available to members of the public. - We ask everyone to call, write, or fax Mr. Fischer with a request for a copy of this report. ... Michael Fischer, Esq. 303 2nd St., South Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 415-396-9130 voice 415-396-9358 FAX Does anybody have his e-mail address? [Well? Do they? :-) --jim] &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& LIST ADMINISTRIVIA - Contrary to the datelines on #023 & #024, both were distributed on Mar.4th. - Someone suggested that I break paragraphs with blank lines rather than indents - just like much of what I receive & modify. Good idea. :-) - I've made it thru most of 3/2's email. Only ~240 msgs left to go. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& * Write to clipper.petition@cpsr.org and tell them you oppose Clipper. * Write to cantwell@eff.org supporting HR 3627. * Write leahy@eff.org and demand the Clinton administration explain IN THE SENATE why it thinks U.S. citizens shouldn't have any digital privacy. * This is a shareware .signature -- please pass it on! [rlm@helen.surfcty.com] Mo' as it Is. --jim Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/415-851-2814 >> To join the GovAccess list, email a request to jwarren@well.sf.ca.us .<< >> Permission herewith granted for unlimited reposting and recirculation.<<