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RAIN 07/30:Lost, stolen, blocked, swapped or digital



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 7/25/00
Feds lose file on brothers’ deaths at hands of police
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000725boise7.asp

by Jonathan D. Silver
The U.S. Department of Justice has lost or misplaced hundreds of pages of 
documents related to the fatal shootings of two Indiana County brothers by 
police in Idaho in 1997. 
The snafu came to light yesterday in a letter from the government responding 
to a federal Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Pittsburgh 
Post-Gazette 15 months ago. 


Waco Tribune-Herald 7/25/00
Lawsuit wants to keep users of ‘livestock protection collars’ secret
http://www.accesswaco.com/auto/feed/news/local/2000/07/25/964538484.00740.2290
.0016.html

by Richard L. Smith
Pour in some environmental concerns. Add in a balancing act of privacy 
considerations versus the right to know. Mix in the threat of animal rights 
terrorism. What you get is a legal stew to be decided upon by a Waco federal 
judge. 
A lawsuit filed by Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, the American Farm Bureau 
Federation and three unnamed ranchers against the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture seeks expansion of an injunction to keep secret the names of 
farmers and ranchers using lethal predator control devices. U.S. District 
Judge Walter Smith of Waco will rule on the issue. 



Concord Monitor 7/26/00
Stolen witch trial papers sold on Internet
http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/news/newengla/witchpapers072600.shtml

Associated Press
BOSTON -- Stolen documents signed by the chief judge in the Salem witch 
trials were sold over the Internet three years ago, a probate official says. 
Suffolk County Register of Probate Richard Iannella discovered the sale last 
week while researching Isaac Addington, who was a lawyer, a judge and the 
first Secretary of the Colony. Addington also served on the grand jury that 
charged the defendants in the Salem witch trials. 



Dallas Morning News 7/22/00
Release of auto data is blocked
Insurers praise ruling; consumer groups upset
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/115911_insure_22tex.A.html

by Terrence Stutz
AUSTIN – A state judge on Friday blocked the public release of auto insurance 
marketing data that consumer advocates say will show whether companies are 
discriminating against minority and low-income drivers. 
State District Judge Jeanne Meurer granted the request of several insurance 
companies for a court order preventing release of the information for several 
months. The data show where every insurance company's customers live by ZIP 
code. 



Miami Herald 7/26/00
Broward announces 1st paperless real estate transaction
http://www.herald.com/content/today/digdocs/066063.htm

by Herald Online Staff
Broward County commissioners announced today that the county has completed 
its first completely paperless real estate transaction. 
The transaction took place Monday. According to Broward County officials, it 
began with an online mortgage application and culminated Monday in a 
paperless real estate closing followed by the electronic recording of the 
transaction by the county. 



Spokane Spokesmen-Review 7/25/00
Ruling opens swap documents
Decision may change how land deals are made
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=072500&ID=s830432&cat=

by Susan Drumheller
SANDPOINT _ A recent court decision may help open up documents related to 
public-private land exchanges before the deals are made. 
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly ordered the U.S. Forest Service this 
month to promptly turn over appraisal documents to the Western Land Exchange, 
a nonprofit watchdog group based in Seattle. 
The documents were part of a deal in the works between the agency and Micron 
Technology co-founder Tom Nicholson, concerning property within the Boise 
National Forest. 
Controversy over the proposed exchange killed it, but the Western Land 
Exchange still pursued its Freedom of Information Act request through the 
courts. 



New York Times 7/26/00
Library of Congress lags in archiving digital media
Concern as the Nation’s Creations Turn Electronic
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/27libr.html

by Katie Hafner
The Library of Congress is charged with collecting the creative work of the 
American people. This has come to include such varied output as the papers of 
Thomas Jefferson and the Wright brothers, the original compositions of 
Leonard Bernstein and the video archives of the Martha Graham Dance Company. 
But now the nation's creativity extends to Web sites, electronic journals and 
magazines, and CD-ROM's of every sort. And the library is lagging in 
collecting and archiving that digital material, according to a report 
released today by the National Academy of Sciences. Unless its administrators 
act swiftly, the report says, the library risks diminishing in relevance. 



Reuters 7/26/00
U.S. bill aims for order on CIA declassification
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000726/pl/cia_documents_dc_1.html

by Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on 
Wednesday said he would push for passage of legislation this year aimed at 
reducing the burden on CIA declassifiers overwhelmed by numerous special 
requests from government officials. 
Those special requests from administration officials and members of Congress 
have asked CIA declassifiers to search for documents on everything from UFOs 
to murdered churchwomen in El Salvador to the assassination of President John 
F. Kennedy. 



Boston Herald 7/26/00
Pilfered witch trial papers auctioned on ‘Net 
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/witc07262000.htm

by Andrea Estes
A thief with a taste for history may have swiped documents signed by the 
chief judge in the Salem witch trials and sold them to the highest bidder, 
officials say. 
An original 1697 will signed by colonial judges William Stoughton and Isaac 
Addington was auctioned off by an Indiana company three years ago, according 
to Suffolk County Register of Probate Richard Iannella. 


Reuters 7/25/00
First U.S. paperless electronic mortgage deal done
http://www.mediacentral.com/channels//allnews/07_25_2000.reuff-story-bcmarkets
mortgageselectronicsignature.html

New York -- The first paperless mortgage in the United States was completed 
less than a month after a federal law on electronic signatures was enacted, a 
group of mortgage companies announced Tuesday. 
The group said the loan for a home in Florida was closed, recorded and 
delivered to the secondary mortgage market in less than three hours. 



Tribune Review 7/26/00
Attorneys, clients may help foot bill for computers
http://www.tribunereview.com/news/gded0726.html

by Tom Aikens
Westmoreland County Recorder of Deeds Tom Murphy may get a new computer 
system for his office, but attorneys - and their clients - would be charged 
higher fees to help pay for it. 
The county commissioners are scheduled to vote Thursday on a computer and 
imaging system by Document Technology Systems Ltd. of Akron, Ohio, that will 
allow Murphy's staff to scan new documents as they are recorded, as well as 
switch from paper records to computer storage. 



Peter Kurilecz
pakurilecz@aol.com

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