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RAIN 08/15: Cherokee Princess and $231,000



The first two stories today were contributed by Christine C-O and Barbara W.
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Indian Country 08/02/00
http://www.indiancountry.com/articles/lifeways-2000-08-02-02.shtml
Cherokee members spread across nation
By Mary Pierpoint
Today staff
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - It is inevitable if you are American Indian - if it
hasn't happened yet, it will.
Somewhere, when you least expect it, a non-Indian person will step up and
say, "My grandmother was a Cherokee Princess, I am trying to find out how to
become a member of the tribe."
For some unknown reason the speaker always assumes that all American Indians
know each other and are experts on tribal enrollment.


Government Executive 7/00
Assault on the Mountain
Agencies are working against a deadline to reveiw and declassify hundreds of
millions of documents
http://www.govexec.com/features/0700/0700s3.htm

by Joshua Dean
At 2 p.m. on May 15, 1969, the men of B Company of the U.S. Army's 187th
Airborne Infantry, 3rd Battalion, were just 150 meters from the top of
Vietnam's Dong Ap Bia Mountain when the company's command group was hit by
friendly aerial rocket artillery rounds. Two men died instantly and 14
others-including the company commander-were wounded as the company faced
North Vietnamese sniper, machine-gun, mortar and rocket-propelled grenade
fire.
With its objective so close, the company was ordered to fall back. "The
magnitude of this mishap could not be truly appreciated at the time," Lt.
Col. W.F. Honeycutt, the battalion commander, wrote in a formerly
confidential report describing the battle. Honeycutt concluded that the
retreat allowed the enemy to bring in reinforcements, causing the battle to
rage on for another five days.


Atlanta Journal Constitution 8/14/00
Spotlight: Agencies make their own rules on open records
Despite changes in the law, governments are finding various ways to erect
roadblocks for citizens
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/local_news_
9379f78e936c42600059.html

by Lucy Soto
There's the letter of the law. Then there's the spirit of it.
And when it comes to Georgia's Open Records Act and its vast gray areas,
government has lots of room to say it is following the former while still
violating the latter.
So a year after Gov. Roy Barnes put the weight of his office into
strengthening the law, the public is still encountering obstacles in getting
routine information and records in a timely and economical way.
Consider the Clayton County Housing Authority. The agency recently voted to
reverse its policy of giving out board packets on the day of its meetings,
and now makes the public wait up to three days. The packets have information
the authority's five members use in following the meeting agenda and casting
their votes.
For free-lance reporter Marcia Bost, a sometime thorn in the authority's
side, it's a crucial way to keep up and to more accurately report the
happenings on her Web site.


Deseret News 8/14/00
Defense poring over papers
Probe generates hundreds of boxes to peruse
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,190007605,00.html?

by Hans Camporreales
Even in a case as complex as the one surrounding former Salt Lake Olympic
bid president Tom Welch and vice president Dave Johnson, there is no given
formula as to where defense attorneys begin their work.
"You start with the first box," said Welch's lead attorney, William Taylor.
"There is no magic to this. You've just got to look at every piece of
paper."
Johnson's attorney, Max Wheeler, was no more specific as to his strategy.
"This is an overwhelming task," he said. "There are hundreds and hundreds of
documents. It's going to take a long time to go through those. I think a
year is conservative."
A week after Welch and Johnson pleaded not guilty to charges related to
their efforts to bring the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City, their
attorneys say they are in the beginning stages of going through more than
400 boxes of documents gathered during an 18-month investigation. The boxes,
which Wheeler said total between 600 and 700, are being kept at the Salt
Lake FBI offices.


PRNewswire 8/14/00
Bell & Howell's Ivory System makes check scanning, archiving and retrieval
easy
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-14
-2000/0001290136&EDATE=

SKOKIE, Ill., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell & Howell Company, (NYSE: BHW
<http://cbs.marketwatch.com/cgi-bin/htx.exe/squote?source=blq/prnewswire&tic
ker=BHW>), a leading digital solutions and services provider to the Imaging
industry worldwide, announces today their new Ivory System. These
enhancements of the company's easy-to-use hardware and software system make
check scanning, indexing, storing, retrieval and distribution cost-effective
and simple. Since its introduction in 1998, over 200 Ivory Systems have been
installed, being welcomed by credit union customers and community financial
institutions like First Southern Bank. The addition of Ivory for these
customers has helped improve customer service through increased archival
efficiencies and improved fast, easy access of stored data.


St. Louis Post Dispatch 8/14/00
California city ordered to pay attorneys' fees to Bay Guardian
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/National/AA1E920DE9BD1CD8862569
3B00734B72?OpenDocument

Associated Press
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) -- The city of Richmond was ordered to pay $231,885 in
attorneys' fees to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, ending a seven-year court
battle over the release of police discipline records.
The case began in 1993 when, after a series of cases involving racial abuse
and excessive force by police, the San Francisco-based weekly asked the
Richmond Police Department for data on citizen complaints.
The city argued that the records were not covered under the California
Public Records Act, and the newspaper sued.



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/14/00
Vietnam veteran documents memories of WWII
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000814video6.asp

by Steve Twedt
With hundreds of aged World War II veterans dying every day, a local
American Legion official wants to preserve their wartime memories on
videotape before it's too late
So far, Edward Connell of Ingram has only one tape completed -- a 90-minute
recording of Jim Rowley, 86, of Oakdale, who was part of the U.S. Air Corps
glider corps who landed behind German enemy lines to construct landing
strips for American planes.
But Connell has been encouraged by officials at the national American Legion
headquarters, who are considering turning the budding video scrapbook idea
into a nationwide project. "Hopefully, this will be something that just
grows and grows," said Connell, 58, who was in the U.S. Air Force during the
Vietnam War era.


Boston Globe 8/14/00
News organizations push for public access to computerized records
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/227/region/News_organizations_push_for_pu:.s
html

Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Thirteen news organizations asked the Supreme Court on
Monday to ensure public access to public information in the computer age.
The organizations made their arguments in a friend-of-the-court brief in a
case involving access to Medicaid information in the state Department of
Health and Human Services' computer system.
Cassandra Hawkins, represented by the New Hampshire Legal Assistance office
in Portsmouth, thought Medicaid should have covered her daughter's dental
expenses, and wanted to know how other similarly aged Medicaid patients had
been treated.
The department denied her request for the information, saying it was not a
distinct ''record'' and could not be produced without costly reprogramming.



The Keene Sentinel 8/14/00
New Hampshire news media, including The Sentinel, are going to the state
Supreme Court to gain access to state records
http://www1.keenesentinel.com/localnews/story1.htm

by Sentinel Source staff
CONCORD -- Public information should be readily accessible to the public,
whether it's stored in a file cabinet or a computer system, 13 newspapers
and news organizations argued in a brief being filed today with the N.H.
Supreme Court.
The news organizations have joined together in filing a friend-of-the-court
brief in a case involving access to Medicaid information stored in the
computers of the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services.
Cassandra Hawkins, represented by the N.H. Legal Assistance office in
Portsmouth, thought Medicaid should have covered her daughter's dental
expenses, and wanted to know how other similarly aged Medicaid patients had
been treated.



Augusta Chronicle 8/14/00
Books aim to clarify county history
http://augustachronicle.com/stories/081400/met_151-3162.000.shtml

by Preston Sparks
Columbia County Bureau
Most local historians agree that two signers of the Constitution once called
Columbia County home. It's also the founding site of the Southern Baptist
Convention and the heart of a controversial split of a major Georgia
territory.
``If you go down to the Georgia section of the public library downtown there
are so many books on Georgia and Richmond County,'' said Barbara Seaborn,
who is currently writing her own book about the county's history. ``But
there's nothing on Columbia County except for two paperbacks.''
Such is the dilemma Columbia County historians say they now face in a county
where the timing has never been right to record an accurate and
comprehensive history book.
And because of the lack of records, Mrs. Seaborn said there are flaws in
some of the county's history being taught.


British Library junks 80,000 books
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,353004,00.html

John Ezard
The British Library has thrown out up to 80,000 books in a change of policy
which has brought to an end its 338-year- old role of collecting every
volume published in Britain.
The library, which under copyright law receives every new book, cleared well
over a mile of shelves. The books were chosen and weeded by "comparatively
junior grade professional staff" to make room for new stock.
The new policy, though approved by the library board, has not been publicly
announced.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4997
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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