This page is an attempt to provide current awareness of federal government reports and activities. The page will be updated weekly to provide links to important, newsworthy, or interesting material published during the previous week. The goal is to keep the links to a manageable number for readers, not to be a comprehensive listing. All links are captured in the Internet Archive if possible, and a list of earlier roundups is available.
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10/25 - Census Bureau Releases Final Report on 2020 Census Integrated Communications Campaign (Census; direct to report)
10/25 - FBI Releases Updated 2020 Hate Crime Statistics (FBI; direct to data explorer)
10/25 - Preview HealthCare.gov Plans Now and Get Ready - Open Enrollment Starts November 1 (HHS)
10/25 - First Evidence of a Planet Identified Beyond Our Galaxy (NASA)
10/25 - NOAA's National Marine Ecosystem Status website provides one-stop shop for key marine ecosystem data (NOAA; direct to website)
10/26 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Propose Rescinding Critical Habitat Regulations Finalized in 2020 (FWS; direct to proposed rules)
10/26 - $15 Million in American Rescue Plan Grants Awarded to Museums, Libraries, and Native Communities (IMLS; direct to museums & libraries list and Native list)
10/26 - Celebrating 150 Million Digital Copies in the Catalog (NARA)
10/26 - USDA Announces Early Release of Select Commodity Tables for Agricultural Projections to 2031 (USDA)
10/27 - Census Bureau Releases Analytical Report on COVID-19 Impact on the 2020 American Community Survey (Census; direct to report)
10/27 - Secretary Mayorkas Issues New Guidance for Enforcement Action at Protected Areas (DHS; direct to guidance & FAQ page)
10/27 - FTC Strengthens Security Safeguards for Consumer Financial Information Following Widespread Data Breaches (FTC; direct to final rule)
10/28 - USDOT Releases New Data Showing That Road Fatalities Spiked in First Half of 2021 (DOT; direct to fatalities report and behavioral report)
10/28 - Join Us for a Webinar on Recently Published Law Library of Congress Reports (LOC)
10/29 - DHS Issues A New Memo to Terminate MPP (DHS; direct to memo & explanation)
10/29 - Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Restores the Office for Access to Justice (DOJ)
10/29 - ODNI Releases Declassified Assessment on COVID-19 Origins (ODNI; direct to report)
Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.
- None this week
10/25 - CBP's FAST Program Exposes Borders to Security Risks (DHS)
10/27 - U.S. Postal Inspection Service Case Management of Arrests (USPS)
10/28 - DHS Needs to Better Demonstrate Its Efforts to Combat Illegal Wildlife Trafficking (DHS)
10/28 - Management Advisory Memorandum: Notification of Needed Upgraded to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Security Camera System (DOJ)
10/25 - Committee Report Reveals CBP Reduced Discipline for Dozens of Agents and Allowed Them to Continue Working with Migrants Despite Violent and Offensive Facebook Posts (Congress; direct to report)
10/25 - Here's the FBI's Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon (via Vice, with source document)
10/28 - Wyden, Grassley Release Investigation on Misconduct and Abuse at Federally-Funded Facilities Caring for Unaccompanied Migrant Children (Congress; direct to report)
10/29 - The Biden Administration Continues Its Work to Expand Access to Justice (WH, with links to reports)
See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.
10/26 - Judicial Ethics and Transparency: The Limits of Existing Statutes and Rules (House Judiciary)
10/26 - Protecting Human Rights in International Conservation (House Natural Resources)
10/26 - Emerging Threats to Election Administration (Senate Rules)
10/28 - Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation Campaign to Prevent Climate Action (House Oversight)
10/28 - Social Media Platforms and the Amplification of Domestic Extremism & Other Harmful Content (Senate Homeland)
