Interior Allowed To Reconnect To Internet
NextGov.com reports:
After working for more than six years under a court ruling not allowing certain Interior Department employees to use the Internet, a U.S. District judge ruled this week that the affected departmental agencies could get back online.
District Judge James Robertson granted on May 14 motions filed by Interior requesting that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Office of Hearings and Appeals, the Office of the Special Trustee, and the Office of Historical Trust Accounting be allowed to reconnect their networks to the Internet.
In December 2001, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Interior to disconnect from the Internet all information technology systems that had access to Indian trust data managed by Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. The ruling was part of a class action lawsuit accusing the government of mismanaging thousands of Indian trust accounts.
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