The Council included in its consent agenda the second reading of the JaParker Deoni Jones Birth Certificate Equality Amendment Act, a bill that activists have sought in order to make the District a bit safer for transgender people.

The D.C. Council is poised to approve a bill that wil bring the District in line with 23 states and the federal government in protecting the identities of transgender individuals who undergo gender transitions.

The D.C. Council introduced today a bill that would bring city regulations in line with 23 states and the State Department in protecting the identities of individuals who undergo gender transitions.

A group representing 3,000 D.C. taxicab drivers says that the District’s planned adoption of new “smart” meters for the District’s taxi fleet could lead to an invasion of their privacy and that of passengers.

A federal judge in Virginia ruled last month that clicking the “like” button on Facebook does not count as protected speech after six sheriff’s office employees said they were fired for liking their boss’ opponent.

No matter how much you love that new Gmail interface or the gas station-bought disposable cell phone, they have no place in Mayor Vince Gray’s administration. Or so he claims.

Adam Rosenberg recently visited the District’s Department of Motor Vehicles website to change his address — he had recently moved and needed to update his vehicle registration. He was impressed with the upgrades that the DMV had made to its website over the last year — even though the verification of his new address which the DMV approved, a Word document that anyone could have slapped together, was hardly foolproof. But Rosenberg wasn’t out to dupe anyone, so he let it slide and chalked it up to the cost of doing things online as opposed to waiting in the often interminable lines at a service center.