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- FTC: Statement of the Commission on Google’s Search Practices (2013)
Government Record · 2013
Federal Trade Commission
FTC commissioners, January 2013: their reasons for closing the Google search case, saying Google's changes could be seen as product improvements for users.
- FY2025 Sourcebook Table 15: Sentence Imposed by Type of Crime
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Sentencing Commission
FY2025 federal possession cases averaged two months overall, with a zero-month median; trafficking averaged 87 months overall. Twenty years was not a typical possession sentence.
- FY2026 COPS Tribal Resources Grant Program Allowable and Unallowable Costs
Government Record · 2026
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Justice Department COPS Office cost list for 2026 tribal grants listing license plate readers as allowable equipment.
- FY25 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program Allowable and Unallowable Costs
Government Record · 2025
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Justice Department COPS Office cost list for 2025 mental health and wellness grants, where license plate readers are listed as NOT allowable. Eligibility depends on the…
- GAO Testimony: Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions for Children in Foster Care
Government Record · 2011
Office of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Senator Grassley's release on the December 2011 Senate hearing on psychotropic drugs given to foster children, which included GAO testimony and former foster youth Ke'onte Cook.
- GAO-01-59: Trade Adjustment Assistance for Dislocated Workers (2000)
Government Record · 2000
U.S. General Accounting Office
GAO, 2000: 832,499 workers were certified for Trade Adjustment Assistance from 1995 to 1999, including NAFTA job losses. Some are counted twice, and it is not…
- GAO-04-110: OxyContin Abuse and Diversion (2003)
Government Record · 2003
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO, December 2003: the FDA believed OxyContin's slow-release design would make it less attractive to abusers and did not anticipate people crushing it. An independent federal…
- GAO-11-654: SEC Post-Employment Controls (2011)
Government Record · 2011
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Government Accountability Office, July 2011: reviewed former SEC employees going to work for the firms the SEC oversees. It found 16 companies accounted for about 35…
- GAO-18-54: Agricultural Promotion Programs, USDA Could Further Strengthen Its Oversight (2017)
Government Record · 2017
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Government Accountability Office, November 2017: checkoff programs are funded by mandatory fees on producers and others, more than $885 million in 2016. GAO found USDA oversight…
- GAO-24-106593: Havana Syndrome Patient Care (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO, July 2024: 334 people qualified for Havana Syndrome care by January 2024, including some first hit inside the U.S., but only 33 were in the…
- GAO-25-107491: Directed Energy Weapons, Transitioning to Military Use (2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO, June 2025: describes the Army's microwave drone-defense system (IFPC-HPM) and a 50 kW laser on a Stryker vehicle, and says the Pentagon is slow moving…
- GAO-26-107786: Natural Disaster Costs at Military Installations (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO, February 2026: the 2019 earthquakes did nearly $4 billion in damage to Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, including labs and weapons magazines.
- Gates Annual Letter: Three Myths That Block Progress for the Poor (2014)
Document · 2014
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates, 2014 annual letter: argues that when more children survive, parents choose to have smaller families. The foundation's own explanation of its view.
- Gates v. Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, 537 F.3d 404
Court Filing · 2008
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The Fifth Circuit held that caseworkers need a court order, consent or an emergency to remove a child, and that "the mere possibility of danger is…
- Gates: Innovating to Zero, TED Talk Transcript (2010)
Document · 2010
Bill Gates / TED
Bill Gates, TED talk, February 2010: says the world's 6.8 billion people are headed to about nine billion, and that good work on vaccines, health care…
- Genasys: Navy Orders $2 Million in LRAD Devices (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Genasys Inc.
Genasys, June 2025: the Navy ordered $2 million of LRAD long-range acoustic devices for its ships.
- Gender-Affirming Care and Young People (2022)
Government Record · 2022
HHS Office of Population Affairs
The OPA fact sheet categorizes social affirmation and puberty blockers as reversible, hormone therapy as partially reversible, and surgeries as not reversible. The restored PDF now…
- Geneva Protocol I, Article 36: Review of New Weapons (1977)
Document · 1977
International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol I (1977), Article 36: countries must review new weapons for legality. The United States has not ratified Protocol I.
- George Orwell, Letter to Francis A. Henson (June 1949)
Document · 1949
George Orwell; transcribed in Paul O’Flinn’s article
George Orwell's June 1949 letter to Francis Henson: the novel is meant to show the perversions a centralized state is open to, and warns that something…
- Gerardo Serrano: Civil Forfeiture Case Page
Document · 2016
Institute for Justice
The case concerns Gerardo Serrano and a truck seized by CBP, not Geraldo Serrano, $22,000 seized by DEA in Kentucky. No short passage was retained for…
- Giannoulias accuses Texas of illegally accessing Mount Prospect license plate data in abortion case
News Report · 2025
CBS News Chicago
CBS Chicago, June 2025: Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said a Texas search of more than 83,000 cameras reached Mount Prospect, and that there were…
- Giannoulias Demands Immediate Action After Texas Authorities Use Illinois License Plate Reader Data to Track Woman Seeking Abortion Care
Government Record · 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias
Illinois Secretary of State, June 2025: Texas authorities searched more than 83,000 cameras, including Mount Prospect's, to find a woman over a self-administered abortion, and Mount…
- Giannoulias’ Audit Finds License Plate Reader Company in Violation of State Law
Government Record · 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias
Illinois Secretary of State's August 2025 audit announcement: Flock allowed Customs and Border Protection to access Illinois cameras, in violation of state law. The office ordered…
- Giannoulias’ Audit Uncovers Forest Park Police Department Sharing License Plate Reader Data with Customs and Border Protection a Violation of State Law
Government Record · 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias
Illinois Secretary of State, September 2025: a separate audit found Forest Park's Motorola plate reader data was accessible to Customs and Border Protection.