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RAIN 05/23: Frequent Gamblers Card Trouble



And you thought there were problems with personal information out there on
the internet. What information is collected on frequent gamblers who use
frequent gambler cards at a casino? Check out the story below.

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Atlanta Journal Constitution 5/22/00
Foot-dragging on Open Records can't stop gadfly
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/local_news_
93827cac2286305a002e.html

by Lucy Soto
Sometimes basic rights aren't torn down in giant, flagrant swipes. They can
be corroded in tiny steps by needless hurdles and stumbling blocks.
Consider the case of the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The Georgia Open Records Act allows taxpayers quick and economical access to
public information, to our documents. The law says public agencies should
respond to records requests in a reasonable amount of time, not to exceed
three days.


The Globe and Mail 5/22/00
No records for millions of dollars at Alberta reserve
A scrawled ledger at one store shows payments by the Samson Cree First
Nation averaging nearly $200,00 a month
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/National/20000522/UHOBBN.html

by Peter Cheney
Hobbema, Alta. -- Lucky Dollar Foods is a small white building on the side
of Highway 2 A south of Edmonton, where you enter the Samson Cree First
Nation, a section of golden prairie that was once one of the finest
buffalo-hunting ranges on the continent.
Like the rest of the reserve, the Lucky Dollar looks anything but lucky.
Dust from the dirt parking lot sifts in through the door, and the building
is low and windowless, with hand-lettered signs advertising the current
specials: bread for $1.69 and meat pies for 69 cents.


Hartford Courant 5/22/00
Casino records bring resignation
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?bfromind=1248&eeid=2360501&eetype
=article&render=y&ck=&userid=169674173&userpw=.&uh=169674173,2,&ver=hb1.3

Associated Press
WALLINGFORD - When town officials suspected one of their own of frequenting
a gambling casino on town time, they asked Mohegan Sun for confirmation . .
. and got it.
As a result, Mark Wilson, the town's risk manager, resigned earlier this
month.
Apparently, it was Wilson's player's card that did him in. The casino uses
the cards to keep track of when a gambler is playing, what game is being
played and for what stakes.
Tribal officials say they released the information on Wilson after
Wallingford's personnel department filed a request with the Mohegan Tribal
Gaming Commission. It was the first time they have received such a request
from a town although the state police routinely ask for information during
criminal investigations, they said.



Sun-Sentinel 5/22/00
Building records missing, conflicting or confounding in Pines
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,31500000000116457,00.ht
ml

by Jodie Needle, Sally Kestin and John W. Allman
Pembroke Pines --When a certificate of occupancy is granted for a new house,
it is supposed to guarantee that the house has been completely checked for
safety code violations.
In Pembroke Pines, that might not always be the case.
A Sun-Sentinel sampling of records for 50 homes in 13 neighborhoods found 34
of those homes lacked documentation that they received thorough inspections.




Israel's Business Arena 5/22/00
Moscow forwards million documents on looting of Holocaust victims' property
to Wiesenthal Centre
http://www.globes.co.il/cgi-bin/Serve_Arena/pages/English/1.2.1.9

by Itamar Levin
MK Abraham Hirschson (Likud), chairman of the Knesset Parliamentary Inquiry
Committee for the Location and Restitution of Assets of Holocaust Victims,
revealed today that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in the US had recently
received one million documents from the archives of the former USSR,
concerning the fate of Holocaust victims' property.



Michigan Live
Former GM executive charged with taking confidential documents
http://bc.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?g6881_AM_
MI--GMExecutiveCharge&&news&michnews

Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) -- A former top executive with General Motors Corp. has been
indicted by the U.S. Justice Department, which accuses him of stealing
confidential documents and taking them to Volkswagen in 1992.
The six-count indictment, unsealed in Detroit on Monday, charges Jose
Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, of Spain, with multiple counts of wire fraud,
interstate transportation of stolen property and transportation of a victim
of a scheme to defraud.


For this story be sure to scroll to the bottom of the webpage.

Washington Post 5/22/00
Update on the News: Shenandoah Park Archive May Reopen
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46957-2000May22.html

by Leef Smith
The hiring of an archivist might end a dispute over access to a voluminous
collection that documents the 1930s resettlement of hundreds of families who
were forced out of their homes in the Blue Ridge to make room for Shenandoah
National Park.



Sydney Morning Herald 5/22/00
Wartime ministry turned down Chaplin film plan
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0005/22/text/features15.html

by Chris Hastings in London
Charlie Chaplin was actively discouraged from doing his bit for Britain
during the Second World War because officials believed he was an eccentric
who was likely to embarrass the London government.
Unpublished documents discovered by The Sunday Telegraph (UK) reveal that
the Ministry of Information, the department responsible for wartime
propaganda, was alarmed at suggestions that the London-born star wanted to
return from America to make a film about Britain's war effort.
They feared the Oscar winner's presence in the country would be a drain on
resources that would pose "difficult questions" for ministers.





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Manager, Records Management
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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