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RAIN 3/27: "Your arrogance is exceeded only by your petulance."



so said U.S. District Judge John L. Kane Jr when speaking to the attorney
representing the city of Denver, Colorado for the city's failure to comply
with his order. (All urls were working at the time this posting was sent.
Please note that some are long.)

Denver Post 3/23/00
Marshals seize police files
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0323.htm

Rocky Mountain News (CO) 3/23/00
U.S. marshals seize police files
http://insidedenver.com/news/0323file4.shtml

Denver Post 3/24/00
City appeals cop-records seizure
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0324.htm

Denver Post 3/25/00
City loses records appeal
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0325.htm


Seems the Sheriff of  Columbia County Arkansas also has a problem with open
records requests.
Dallas Morning News 3/26/00
Arkansas sheriff releases records
Reporter arrested after asking about prisoner who attended wedding
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/54395_REPORTER26.html

Will politicians ever learn that public records mean that they belong to the
public? check out the petulance presented by this Pennsylvania legislator.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 3/26/00
Stronger open records law faces battle in Legislature
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000326openrecords6.asp

The internet has definitely changed the way we look at things and the way
the law handles information. The following stories are well worth a read
Albuquerque Journal 3/25/00
Subpoenas delivered via e-mail
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/5news03-25-00.htm

San Jose Mercury News 3/25/00
Everyone's an online sleuth
http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/top/003002.htm

Nando Times 3/25/00
Railroad's case against fired employee tests Web privacy boundries
http://www.nando.com/noframes/business/story/0,2469,500184659-500245767-5012
33034-0,00.html


Old files turn up.
Toronto Sun 3/26/00
Ex-Nazis plotted '50s coup: Old files
http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/07_n2.html

With the end of the Cold War the American military has been downsizing.
Check out this novel re-use of an old military facility.
New York Times 3/26/00
Sunday Magazine: Bunker Mentality
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000326mag-salientfacts.html


And finally more information on how not  to handle emails that are under
subpoena. I wonder what would have happened if the subpoena had been sent
electronically?
Washington Post 3/25/00
A glitch grows into a scandal
E-mail problem may dog Gore
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-03/25/096l-032500-idx.html


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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