{
  "id": "2002-september-october-data-access-year-after-attacks-files-still-guarded",
  "slug": "2002-september-october-data-access-year-after-attacks-files-still-guarded",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2002-september-october-data-access-year-after-attacks-files-still-guarded.html",
  "year": 2002,
  "month": "September - October",
  "monthNum": 9,
  "headline": "DATA ACCESS Year after attacks files still guarded",
  "kicker": "DATA ACCESS",
  "author_name": "Jennifer LaFleur",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press",
  "summary": "Federal agencies removal of information from web sites post-9/11 hampers journalists' access, with new legislation potentially restricting more data.",
  "keywords": [
    "data access",
    "post-9/11",
    "government restriction"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Government & Politics",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "World Wide Web"
  ],
  "full_text": "After Congress passed the 1996 amendments to the Freedom of Information Act, government agencies began putting more data and documents on their Web sites. But that trend reversed after Sept. 11, 2001, when several federal agencies moved to take down maps, databases, and entire Web sites from the public domain citing security reasons. Journalists no longer could get to the data they had used before in news stories. Instead of the usual reports and information on Web sites, many users instead found messages saying that sites were down or information was unavailable. The U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal posted a message about portions of their homepage being temporarily blocked. Some information has been returned to government Web sites, but much continues to be unavailable, with additional information either being removed or not updated. Tracking closures, OMB Watch has tracked federal agencies' removal of information, seeing a dramatic immediate shutdown and not much reversal. Databases online earlier like federal agency enforcement data have been withheld citing security concerns, limiting information that had earlier been publicly accessible, highlighted with examples like environmental, pipeline data, and more, creating challenges for both journalists and the public in accessing formerly open records.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "pre-v2",
    "extracted_at": "",
    "verified": true
  },
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