jblau18
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6 years ago Earlier this year, a broad coalition of organizations dedicated to government openness and accountability, privacy, human rights, civil rights, and immigrant rights wrote to the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security expressing concern over these data provisions in E.O. 13780. The coalition letter emphasized that the data collection and reporting requirements in the Executive Order disproportionately target information on foreign nationals and non-U.S. citizens residing or entering the United States, and that once collected, this data will have no frame of reference and, accordingly, will not give policy makers or the public a sense of how it compares to all travelers or all U.S. persons. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that, beyond the mandatory information requirements, Executive Order 13780 gives sweeping authority to DHS and the DOJ to determine which additional categories of information and types of data they choose to collect, without providing clear definitions for such categories. Lastly, the provision of E.O. 13780 that call for the disclosure and dissemination of information related to acts of gender-based violence against women, including “so called ‘honor killings’ committed by foreign nationals raises serious concerns in regard to protecting victims’ rights and privacy-protected sensitive information while potentially preventing immigrant women from reporting abuse. The letter can be found here: https://www.openthegovernment.org/node/5463
The NAP is designed to "advance transparency" etc. The Administration's first "transparency" initiative was a law enforcement policy in E.O. 13780 (Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States):
As the Administration's flagship transparency initiative, I would like to see this included in the National Action Plan and would like to know what milestones the NAP will create for the successful implementation of this policy. Thanks for considering & sorry-not-sorry for trolling.