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US Government: Department of War Publishes Fifth Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files on WAR.GOV/UFO . “Today, the Department of War is publishing the fifth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The collection continues to be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO, […]

GPO: GPO Launches New Annual Reports Collection on GovInfo. “The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched a new Annual Reports collection on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This release will make it easier to find and search for Annual Reports published by Federal agencies.”

FYIVT: Vermont Just Got Its Own Search Engine — And It Reads the Documents Google Can’t. “The FYIVT Finder currently indexes more than 90,000 documents (and growing as you read this). That includes every Vermont bill dating back to 2010, searchable by subject rather than only by bill number. It includes more than 45,000 legislative committee documents — testimony, amendments, reports and […]

People: Pentagon Releases New UFO Records Detailing Decades of Unexplained Aerial Encounters. “The Pentagon has expanded its public UFO archive with dozens of newly released records, from declassified documents to videos, audio recordings and images tied to decades of unexplained aerial incidents.”

The Chief: $40 million for 9/11 document discovery, release included in city budget . “The city will devote $34.2 million in the coming fiscal year to creating a public online portal to post documents related to post-9/11 air quality and health risks as part of the $125.8 billion Fiscal Year 2027 city budget announced June 30. Also included in the finalized budget is $6.25 million for the […]

Scientific American: History depends on records that weren’t built to last. “Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace.”

University of Washington: GovScape lets you easily search millions of government documents. “At the end of every presidential term, the End of Term Web Archive preserves that administration’s web presence as a vast trove of documents and webpages. The archive began in 2008, with George W. Bush’s second term, and runs up to 2024, collecting images, text, graphs, redacted pages and other […]

Kentucky Lantern: Kentucky’s open door on government transparency is closing. “Kentucky built its Open Records Act on a simple, powerful premise: that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest. For nearly 50 years, that premise provided a basic guarantee that Kentuckians could see what their government was doing in their name. That premise is now under a growing […]

NBC News: Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters. “The Justice Department has removed press releases detailing the charges against hundreds of individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from its website, the department confirmed Friday.”

Kansas Reflector: Kansas secretary of state moves 60-year-old system from paper to online. “In place of the previous paper-based system is a public website that launched Tuesday. [Scott] Schwab said the new digital system improves transparency, efficiency and cost. Users can view proposed regulations, search an in-progress archival catalogue and subscribe to email notices for scheduled public […]

National Security Archive: Cuba: Declassified Records on the Brothers to the Rescue Shootdown. “On Eve of Raul Castro Indictment, Archive Posts Declassified FAA Documents

on Events Leading to Shootdown of Cuban Exile Planes”

BBC: Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele. “The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service has said it will finally open long-sealed files on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, but without saying when. Mengele fled Europe after World War Two, but for years there have been rumours that he spent time in Switzerland, even though an international warrant was […]

Government Publishing Office: GPO Doubles Congressionally Mandated Reports on GovInfo. “U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) now makes more than 1,000 Congressionally Mandated Reports from 90 Federal agencies available on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This total has doubled since GPO announced reaching 500 […]

Oxford Mail: Blenheim Palace digitises centuries-old archive collection. “The Blenheim Archives has finished cataloguing and digitising a collection of material never before seen by the public. The project has brought to light more than 200 documents and revealed fresh detail about life in the villages of Wolvercote, Cutteslowe, and Godstow.”

Los Angeles Times: How did thousands of sensitive LAPD files get leaked? City officials seek explanation. “In the aftermath of a recent data breach that saw hackers make off with a vast trove of confidential police records, Los Angeles leaders have sought an explanation from the city’s top lawyer, whose office was targeted.”

Irish Legal News: UK government records relating to Troubles published by National Archives. “This first batch of files includes records offering fresh insights into the conflict’s early stages, including: the Civil Rights Campaign; the Outbreak of Conflict and the deployment of the Army; and the establishment of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) in 1972 following the suspension of Stormont.”

National Security Archive: Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion 65 Years Later. “In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the intelligence agency, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 65th anniversary of the paramilitary assault on Cuba.”

New York City Council: City Council Secures Commitment from Corporation Counsel to Release 9/11 Documents. “At today’s New York City Council Preliminary Budget hearing for the Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation, Speaker Julie Menin secured a commitment from Corporation Counsel Steve Banks that the City’s Law Department will create a public online portal to […]

New York Times: ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate This link goes to a gift article. “The chief information officer for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who oversees the chamber’s computers as well as security, said in a one-page memo reviewed by The New York Times that aides could use Google’s Gemini chat, OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, which is already […]

CBS News: The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here’s what remains.. “Some of those removed documents contained explicit images or survivor information — including one document with unredacted photos of 21 survivors along with most of their birthdates. But the reasons for other files’ removal is unclear, such as a call log with all names redacted and images of Epstein’s jail bunk […]

Politico: Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT. “The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, […]

GPO: GPO And The Library Of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes Of The United States Serial Set. “U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) achieved a major milestone by uploading and making available its 10,000th volume of the United States Congressional Serial Set on GPO’s GovInfo. Those volumes contain more than 185,000 individual Government documents and reports.”

Scientific American: Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency. “The now-released records include reports, maps and communications tracing Earhart’s flight as well as other documents detailing the search after her disappearance. The National Security Agency has also declassified related files and Earhart’s last known communications. The wide-ranging records include a letter from a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/15/scientific-american-amelia-earhart-records-released-by-u-s-spy-agency/

COURIER: We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate. “To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/14/courier-we-created-a-searchable-database-with-all-20000-files-from-epsteins-estate/

How to Update the #Gender Marker on Your #ID, #Passport, and Other #GovernmentDocuments

https://www.them.us/story/how-to-get-x-gender-marker-on-your-passport-birth-certificate-id

Schneier on Security: 1965 Cryptanalysis Training Workbook Released by the NSA. “The listings in the report are printouts from the Stethoscope program, run on the NSA’s Bogart computer, showing statistical and structural data extracted from encrypted messages, but the encrypted messages themselves are not included. They were used in NSA training programs to teach analysts how to interpret […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/04/schneier-on-security-1965-cryptanalysis-training-workbook-released-by-the-nsa/

MPR News: Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI. “Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents more accessible to the public.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/mpr-news-boston-public-library-aims-to-increase-access-to-a-vast-historic-archive-using-ai/

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Sensitive details about Trump-Putin summit revealed in discarded government documents, NPR reports — Everything we know about the fallout of Trump’s meeting with Putin — Slovakia’s Fico praises Putin-Trump summit, repeats Kremlin propaganda — Putin cannot be trusted; Nordic, Baltic countries issue joint statement supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/sunday-august-17-2025/

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public
https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean
#Libraries #Archives #FederalDepository #Internet #GovernmentDocuments #PublicAccess #Information

House Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement passed an 8–2 vote demanding #DOJ release the complete, #unredacted #JeffreyEpstein files - will this happen - unlikely - includes #subpoena power, pushed through by #Democrats as Speaker #MikeJohnson tried to shut Congress down early to stop the vote. Three #Republicans join Democrats. #Victims #justice won #congress #maga #trump #corruption #FOIA #governmentdocuments #congress #democracy #criminal #sexualassault #law #politics