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NEWS: May 24, 2012
Senators Cite Dozens of Incidents of Secret Service Misconduct With Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan saying agents implicated in the Colombia prostitution scandal "did some really dumb things," leaders of a Senate committee said agency records revealed 64 allegations of sexual misconduct by Secret Service employees over five years, most of them involving email or online material, as well as another 30 allegations involving alcohol. >> Federal Times GSA Execs in Trouble over Conference Got Bonuses Five senior General Services Administration officials placed on administrative leave over an extravagant 2010 Las Vegas conference received bonuses of between $9,100 and $11,690 last year. >> Federal Times Privatization | Chicago Parking-Meter Company Wants $50 Million from City The latest bill to the city from Chicago Parking Meters LLC, the company running Chicago's metered parking spaces, demands $22 million to cover a year's worth of free parking for vehicles that displayed disabled placards or license plates--part of a nearly $50 million tab that Mayor Rahm Emanuel so far has refused to pay. >> Chicago Tribune
CTO: 'Bad-Ass Innovators' Needed The White House is trying to bring a start-up mentality to the government by recruiting programmers and other experts to work on five projects for six to 12 months as part of the new Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said the administration is looking for "bad-ass innovators"--people a start-up venture would hire. >> Federal News Radio White House Unveils Strategy for Mobile Devices The White House released its long-awaited Digital Strategy, aiming to ensure that agencies manage mobile devices safely and affordably and give citizens mobile access to government websites and applications as well as raw survey and satellite data. >> Nextgov Public Facilities | Detroit New Life Sought for 84 Vacant School Properties More than 100,000 children have left Detroit's public schools in the last decade, and school and city officials announced that they are collaborating on a citywide effort to reinvent 84 vacant school buildings and sites into innovative redevelopment projects. >> Detroit News
7 Injured in Fire on Nuclear Sub A fire on the nuclear-powered submarine USS Miami at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard injured seven people, including five firefighters, but did not affect the vessel's reactor, which was not active. Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, commander of Submarine Group Two, said this morning that the fire was out. >> AP/ABC News Corrections | Pennsylvania Governor Backs Proposals to Overhaul Prisons Gov. Tom Corbett endorsed a set of recommendations for overhauling the state corrections system projected to save $350.7 million over the next five years, including reserving prison sentences for serious offenders, reducing inefficiencies in the parole process and increasing funding for programs serving victims of crime. >> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cybersecurity | The Nation U.S. Hacks Website of al-Qaeda Affiliate State Department cyber experts recently hacked into websites being used by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and substituted information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes for the group's anti-American rhetoric, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. >> Washington Post Video Suggests al-Qaeda Attacks on U.S. Networks A video purportedly from al Qaeda that promotes cyberattacks on the U.S. electric grid is being circulated by U.S. Senate backers of legislation to regulate the computer security of critical industries. >> Nextgov
U.S. Attorney Who Prosecuted Two Governors Stepping Down Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois who oversaw the criminal prosecutions of successive Illinois governors on corruption charges as well as the former Bush-administration aide I. Lewis Libby Jr., will resign at the end of June, the Justice Department announced. >> Chicago Tribune Finance | California Poll: Voters Support Tax Hikes California voters are backing Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed tax hike as well as two other ballot propositions, one that increases the cigarette tax and another that tightens term limits for state lawmakers, according to a new Public Policy Institute of California poll. >> San Francisco Chronicle Spending Error Costs Salt Lake City $762,000-Plus Salt Lake City officials want to tap funds left over from completed projects to cover what's described as an "accounting error" that resulted in the city spending $762,273 it didn't have on a fleet facility. >> Salt Lake Tribune >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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VIEWPOINT Oversight Where Are the Inspectors General? Inspectors general serve an invaluable purpose in government, ferreting out waste and corruption and exposing internal wrongdoing. But 10 of the 73 federal I.G. posts are vacant. These vacancies are the result of presidential lassitude in filling the spots and, to a significantly lesser extent, of congressional failure to act on the few nominees that have been sent to the Senate. Both President Obama and the Senate have a responsibility to ensure that these posts are filled. >> Washington Post | More commentaries QUOTABLE “There are people who want to serve and are physically fit. There are some 20-year-olds who cannot run a mile.” Georgia Congressman Paul Broun Jr., whose legislation to allow people of any age to enlist in the military as long as they meet health and fitness standards was defeated in a 256-164 House vote >> Military Times | More quotes DATAPOINT 6,934 Number of recently convicted felons who were purged from Florida's voting rolls from January through April, of whom Democrats accounted for 51 percent and Republicans 17 percent, while African-Americans, who make up 16 percent of the state's population, accounted for 43 percent of those who were purged >> Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times | More data UPCOMING EVENTS Alliance for Innovation Webinar: "Performance Management Tools and Techniques" Today, 1 p.m. ET Service Employees International Union International Convention May 28-30, Denver GovInfoSecurity.com Webinar: "Legal Considerations About Cloud Computing" May 28, 10 a.m. ET Government Technology magazine Government Technology Conference West May 29-30, Sacramento, Calif. Brookings Institution Discussion: "Our Divided Political Heart: the Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent" May 29, 10-11:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Discussion: "Broadband and Energy Efficiency" May 30, 10-11:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Governing magazine Leadership Forum May 31, Lansing, Mich. Center for American Progress Discussion: "The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" May 31, 10-11 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators IT Solutions Management Conference June 1-2, Washington, D.C. American Public Human Services Association National Policy Forum June 3-5, Washington, D.C. Water Environment Federation Collections Systems Conference June 3-6, St. Louis Digital Government Society of North America Annual Conference on Digital Government Research June 4-7, College Park, Md. Council for Community and Economic Research Annual Conference June 4-8, Oklahoma City, Okla. >> Full events listings |
