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Evansville Courier & Press 7/11/00
County setting up records Web site
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200007/11+website071100_news.h
tml+20000711+news

by Susan Taylor
Another step is being taken to get more county government records online.
County Recorder Betty Hermann discussed plans Monday at the County
Commissioners' meeting about establishing a Web site for her office. Plans
are to have the site operational by Sept. 1, she said.
The recorder's office keeps records concerning mortgages, deeds, liens and
other documents that trace the ownership of county property.


Wichita Eagle 7/11/00
State to get Brown vs. BOE files
The Kansas State Historical Society use a $12,000 grant to fill out its
collection on the landmark Supreme Court case that ended school segregation
http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/regional/docs/grant0711_txt.htm

by Beccy Tanner
Notes by Thurgood Marshall as he prepared to argue the Supreme Court case
that ended segregation will soon be part of the Kansas State Historical
Society's archives in Topeka.
The historical society will use a $12,000 state grant to buy 77 reels of
microfilm from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People. The microfilm contain files from the NAACP's quest to desegregate
public schools from 1913 to 1965. The records are in the NAACP's collection
at the Library of Congress.


Washington Post 7/11/00
Judge scolds White House over recovery of subpoenaed e-mails
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18349-2000Jul10.html

by George Lardner, Jr
A federal judge chastised the White House yesterday for failing over a
20-week period to produce a single tape of subpoenaed but unsearched e-mail
correspondence and said its explanations were "preposterous."
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said he would begin a special round of
hearings Thursday to determine the best way to restore and search the
missing e-mail. He indicated that he was considering appointment of a
special master to take over the job.


Washington Post 7/11/00
Trade mission data withheld, official says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19498-2000Jul11.html

by George Lardner
A veteran Commerce Department official said in an affidavit yesterday that
records concerning contributions to the Democratic Party by participants in
trade missions and other documents were wrongfully withheld despite Freedom
of Information Act requests and litigation demanding their production.
The official, Sonya Stewart, said lawyers in the Office of General Counsel
(OGC) at Commerce "improperly assumed and exercised the final authority" to
withhold or release documents, at times in consultation with the White
House.


Mobile Register 7/12/00
University presidents threatened with subpoena's for documents
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Jul2000/12-a381971a.html

Staff report
MONTGOMERY - The chairman of the legislative contract review committee on
Monday threatened to subpoena legal contracts if university presidents don't
voluntarily turn them over for review.
This will be the committee's third attempt to obtain these documents from
Alabama's four-year universities.
The letter "reminds" the university presidents that the Joint Legislative
Contract Review Oversight Committee can subpoena the legal contracts, said
Rep. Perry Hooper Jr., R-Montgomery, chairman of the committee. He said he
hopes to have the documents before the committee meets again on Aug. 3.


Lincoln Journal Star 7/12/00
Documents keep legacies alive
http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=705&date=20000708&past=

by Frank L. Graham
North Platte Telegraph
NORTH PLATTE Imagine being in the room in 1913 when Louisa Cody signed away
what was left of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's beloved Scouts Rest Ranch
for $1.
That's exactly what North Platte physician Byron Barksdale did when he
purchased the official bill of sale for Cody's ranch from a historical
document broker earlier this month.
Barksdale said he was excited to get the document. He declined to say how
much he paid for it.



Kansas City Star 7/12/00
Opinion: Kansas archives richer with Marshall papers
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/opinion.pat,opinion/37749976.711,.html

The Kansas State Historical Society has made a wise choice with its intent
to acquire notes made by Thurgood Marshall. The papers concern the
then-young lawyer's involvement in helping to desegregate the nation's
public schools.
Marshall was chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. The state historical society is to use a $12,000 state
grant to buy from the NAACP some 77 reels of microfilm containing files of
the civil-rights organization's desegregation efforts from 1913 to 1965.


Bergen Record 7/12/00
FBI subpoenas 5 Paterson agencies
http://www.bergen.com/paterson/fbimc200007121.htm

by Michael Casey
PATERSON -- FBI agents served subpoenas on as many as five city agencies
Tuesday morning and then quietly hauled out boxes of documents from the
mayor's office.
City officials said the mayor's office, Personnel Department, city clerk's
office, and city Parking Authority were among the branches served and that
the request for documents was wide-ranging. They refused to say what the FBI
was looking for or whether any member of Mayor Marty Barnes' administration
is the focus of the investigation.


Village Voice 7/12/00
Rifling Victoria's Drawers
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0028/ladd.shtml

by Donna Ladd
An internal document recently leaked by an unnamed Victoria's Secret
insider, and posted online by the Smoking Gun, has the lingerie company's
thong in a twist. In June, the Web site (thesmokinggun.com
<http://www.thesmokinggun.com>) reproduced a six-page Dress for Success
guide <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/victorias1.html> in which the
negligee hawker told employees not to wear sleeveless dresses or open-toed
shoes, more than two earrings per ear, or more than two rings per hand.
Victoria's Secret attorneys fired off a letter June 28 demanding that the
dress code be taken down and the deep throat identified. In rattling the
Smoking Gun's cage, the company relied not only on confidentiality clauses,
but on the federal law of copyright.



Duluth News Tribune 7/12/00
State worker can sue over release of data
http://www.duluthnews.com/today/dnt/local/data.htm

Associated Press
ST. PAUL -- A state employee can sue the Department of Employee Relations
over the release of his Social Security number to a union, the Court of
Appeals ruled Tuesday.
A three-judge panel overruled a Ramsey County judge, who dismissed Robert
Manson's lawsuit against the state agency after concluding he had no grounds
to sue.
The Appeals Court did not rule on whether the agency can give out a Social
Security number. It simply decided that Manson has a right to pursue his
claim.



Las Vegas Sun 7/12/00
Calls to identity theft hotline soar
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-exec/2000/jul/12/071200629.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Calls to the Federal Trade Commission's identity theft
consumer hotline have doubled since March, the agency told a Senate
subcommittee Wednesday.
The FTC is handling about 850 calls per week, twice the number of calls
taken the last time Congress held a hearing on the subject of identity
theft. FTC representatives counsel victims on how to check with credit
reporting agencies to protect their credit histories and finances.


The Advocate 7/12/00
Priest wary of plan to open records
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=14620

by Steven K. Landry
Special to The Advocate
ST. MARTINVILLE -- The pastor of St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church is
raising questions about a plan to use a $40,000 grant to microfilm and
digitize aging church records for public access at the Cultural Heritage
Center.
The Rev. Austin Leger said some of the records, which date to 1756, are
"sensitive" and should be made available through church officials only.
"The actual records are not really public records," Leger said.


Salt Lake Tribune 7/12/00
Zions Bank introduce Digital Safe-Deposit Boxes
http://www.sltrib.com/07122000/business/66368.htm

by Guy Boulton
OREM -- Think about all those documents -- titles, loan agreements, birth
certificates -- that you know should be stored in a safe place. Think about
the hassle of getting a safe-deposit box and making the trips to the bank.
And then think of storing those documents electronically in the digital
equivalent of a safe-deposit box.
A partnership between Zions Bank and Netdocuments Inc. is designed to do
just that. The idea is to mesh a standard service of a venerable institution
with the technology of the Internet.


Chicago Sun Times 7/7/00
Court backs Stroger in Pucinski computer case
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/puc07.html

by Abdon M. Pallasch
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Aurelia Pucinski had no right to buy a
$500,000 computer system without getting approval from the Cook County
Board, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Pucinski has argued for years that she needs a new computer system to keep
track of court documents. But Cook County Board President John Stroger--whom
Pucinski has twice failed to unseat--has led the board in turning down
Pucinski's requests.


Virginian-Pilot 6/30/00
Beach company to utilize new technology for mortgages
http://www.pilotonline.com/business/bz0630com.html

by Akweli Parker
VIRGINIA BEACH -- "Signing on the dotted line" often means lots of John
Hancocks and agonizing waits for real estate deals to go through, but a
Hampton Roads firm is working to make the process a little easier.
Virginia Beach-based Compass Technology Management, LLC, said it will team
with Baltimore-based eOriginal Inc. to make legally binding mortgage
documents that use ``digital signature'' technology.
According to Compass, the technique could cut costs by $750 per mortgage
closing, eliminate weeks of processing time and do away with the elaborate
paper trail generated in an ordinary real estate transaction.
Computer code writers at Compass will customize the established eOriginal
system to suit the real estate financial services market.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
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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