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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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