In the news
Wired Magazine, The Quiet Invasion of 'Big Information', November 9, 2022.
What to Read, New York Times, Newly Published, From Egotistical Artists to Corporate Control, November 2, 2022.
Gopal Ratnam, Halting Backdoor Government Snooping Seen as Key to Data Privacy, CQ Roll Call, July 26, 2022.
Julie Pattison-Gordon, Calls Mount for Blocking Warrantless Mass Data Collection, Government Technology, July 20, 2022
Claire Woodcock, Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books Into Public Libraries, Vice, April 20, 2022
Josh Moody, Law Students Protest Research Database Contracts With ICE, Inside Higher Ed, December 6, 2021
Chris Mills Rodrigo, Law schools pressured to cut ties with research firms over ICE, CBP, The Hill, October 4, 2021
Suhail Gharaibeh, Law students push for NYU to cut ties with legal databases over ICE links, Washington Square News, October 8, 2021
Sam Melllins, Hochul promised a ‘new era of transparency.’ Here’s what that would really take., City & State New York, September 28, 2021
Michelle Del Rey, It Remains Unclear What Records Cuomo Will Leave Behind, Times Union, August 23, 2021
Kari Paul, Media and Data Firm Thomson Reuters Face Pressure to Ditch ICE Contracts, The Guardian, June 3, 2021
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Built by Library Vendors, April 9, 2021
Sam Biddle, LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE, The Intercept, April 2, 2021
Digital Library Federation's Endangered Data Week Interview With Sarah Lamdan, October 13, 2020
Justin Jung, UCLA School of Law holds contracts with companies selling personal data to ICE, UCLA Daily Bruin, July 17, 2020
David L. Hudson, Jr., How to Avoid 10 Common Ethics Pitfalls, ABA Journal, June 1, 2020
Hannah Beckler, Thomson Reuters Analysts Process Data to Help ICE Make Arrests, Documents Show, Documented NY, May 20, 2020
Slate, The Evil List: Which Tech Companies are Really Doing the Most Harm?, January 15, 2020
Cora Currier, Lawyers and Scholars to LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters: Stop Helping ICE Deport People, The Intercept, November 14, 2019
Brennan Center for Justice, Proposals for Reform Volume II: National Task Force on Rule of Law & Democracy, October 3, 2019
Brian Kahn, Scott Pruitt Has to Justify Lying About Climate Change on National TV, Earther, June 6, 2018
Ledyard King, NASA nominee’s support of ‘secret science’ bill alarms environmentalists, USA Today, October 20, 2017
John Schwartz, Under Fire, Climate Scientists Unite With Lawyers to Fight Back, New York Times, May 15, 2017
Brian Kahn, The EPA’s Obama-era snapshot is missing information, Salon, May 8, 2017
Sean Reilly, GOP looks to skirt hefty price tag for ‘secret science’ bill, E&E News, April 4, 2017
Brian Resnick, The House just passed two bills that would stifle science at the EPA, Vox, March 30, 2017
Lisa Peet, LACUNY Conference Plans Privacy Protections, Library Journal, May 14, 2015
David Perera, Agencies should shield FOIA requestor names, says CUNY academic, FierceGovernmentIT.com, April 3, 2013
Op-eds & Advocacy
The Conquest of ProQuest and Knowledge Unlatched: How recent mergers are bad for research and the public, written with Jennie Rose Halperin, Shea Swauger, and Robert Montoya of IOI's Community Oversight Council
Comment on the National Archives Proposed Rule Concerning Federal Records Management and the Digitization of Permanent Records, written with Patrice McDermott, Director, Government Information Watch and Yael Schacher, Senior U.S. Advocate, Refugees International, February 15, 2021
Amy Coney Barrett And Beyond: The Green Case For Supreme Court Reform, written with the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), October 2020
Drop Your ICE Contracts Petition, #NoTechForICE, 2019
Letter to the National Archives and Records Administration Regarding Records Appraisal, written with Patrice McDermott, Director, Government Information Watch, December 13, 2019
Breaking Down the Presidential Records Act, AALL Spectrum with Janet Peros, July 2019
Comment Letter on behalf of environmental groups regarding proposed changes to Interior Department FOIA regulations, January 2019
The EPA Has Backed Off Enforcement Under Trump -- Here are the Numbers, The Conversation, January 3, 2019
A Sheep in the Closet: Erosion of Enforcement at the EPA, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, November 14, 2018
Disaster in Disaster: The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act Must be Enforced, Center for Progressive Reform, September 24, 2018
Surveillance and Legal Research Providers: What You Need to Know, Medium, July 6, 2018
A Blow to Science at the EPA, Foreign Affairs, April 12, 2017
Public Protections Under Threat At The EPA: Examining Safeguards and Programs That Would Have Been Blocked by H.R. 1430, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, March 27, 2017
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Letter to Congress Regarding H.R. 1430, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, March 27, 2017
Electronic Communication Should Force FOIA Advancement, JURIST, June 9, 2015
Library Patron Privacy in 2014 – Honoring the Legacy of Zoia Horn
LLAGNY Law Lines, October 29, 2014
Are We Passing the Grade? Assessing MD Schools’ Compliance with IPM-in-Schools Law
Maryland Pesticide Network Report, 2004
Blog posts & reviews
Renke Siems, Rezension zu: Data cartels : the companies that control and monopolize our information (Book Review), o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, 2022
Eira Tansey, Environmental Information: Research, Access and Environmental Decisionmaking (Book Review), The American Archivist, 2018
Lisa Gross, How to Make FOIA Work For You, Even if You’re a Freelancer, December 20, 2018
Mari Cheney, Keeping Up with New Titles: Environmental Information (Book Review), Law Library Journal, 2018
Riverside County Law Library, Privacy in the Library: what you need to know, December 16, 2014