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Several really good stories in this posting.

Charleston Post and Courier 8/20/00
Sheriff's office shields records of deputies
Lawsuit response The York County sheriff's office says it is not a public
body and is protecting personal privacy interests of deputies.
http://www.charleston.net/pub/archive/news/yorksher0820.htm

Associated Press
YORK - A newspaper's efforts to get records concerning misconduct
allegations lodged against deputies have prompted the York County sheriff's
office to say that it is not a public body.
That was one of the responses offered to a lawsuit filed by The Herald of
Rock Hill to get records.
The sheriff's office seems "to believe the allegations of impropriety by
deputy sheriffs is a private matter, and that is the kernel of our
disagreement," said Jay Bender, the newspaper's lawyer.
"The question is: Are allegations of misconduct of public employees public
or private?"

Charleston Post and courier 8/14/00
Internet site may violate FOIA
http://www.charleston.net/pub/archive/news/inetfoia0814.htm
Associated Press
BEAUFORT - A private Internet bulletin board for Beaufort County School
Board members and district Superintendent Herman Gaither may constitute a
violation of the state's freedom of information laws, a South Carolina media
attorney says.
Gaither said he set up the bulletin board so he could share information with
board members on "sensitive or semiprivate information." Only Gaither and
board members were allowed to use the site, which allowed them to read and
respond to internal messages.
Jay Bender, the attorney for the South Carolina Press Association, said the
Freedom of Information Act prohibits public agencies from using technology
to conduct their business in private, and that the bulletin board might
violate that law.


Cincinnati Enquirer 8/20/00
Photo organizer makes sense out of chaos
Wide background of knowledge enhances her skills
http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/08/20/fin_photo_organizer.html

by Jenny Callison
Connie Springer's business enterprise is a montage of her interests and
experience. In creating a career for herself as a photo organizer, she has
capitalized on her liberal arts education, her master's degree in library
science and her training in photography.
Since she started Larkspur Productions Photo Organizing in 1997, the Hyde
Park resident has focused on heaps of photographic materials in the files of
many an organization. She creates color coded and indexed groupings of
slides, prints, videos and negatives where once there was only chaos.
Ms. Springer's services have made a huge difference to the Verdin Co., the
Cincinnati firm that made the World Peace Bell. Marketing manager Suzanne
Sizer said the company's photo archives used to be a real headache.


Miami Herald 8/17/00
Salvaged papers shed light on former Cuban dictator
Tabloid videographer digs items from trash
http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/americas/carib/cuba/digdocs/065839.
htm
http://www.herald.com/content/thu/docs/024082.htm

by Ana Acle
Out of a trash bin, at the edge of an office and storage complex in northern
Palm Beach County, pieces of intriguing Cuban exile history have emerged --
checks, letters, photographs, even a shoe, that once belonged to former
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
The items, which also include newspaper clippings, a land deal and pet
vaccinations, are in the hands of paparazzo Robert ``Bob'' Calvert, he of
William Kennedy Smith fame, and the Batista family is claiming the papers
were stolen out of a private, rented trash bin.
The documents' value is questionable, mostly the minutiae of daily living:
canceled checks, faded photographs, sentimental letters. The stuff is
garbage, say the relatives of the former dictator, who say they have the
historically significant documents locked away to be donated at a later
date.
Still, the dozens of boxes filled with items -- enough to fill a large trash
bin -- provide a glimpse into Batista's luxurious life in exile.


Bergen Record 8/17/00
Lyndhurst trustees under fire over suit
http://www.bergen.com/bsouth/watchdog20000817.htm

by Shannon D. Harrington
LYNDHURST -- Outraged by a lawsuit the Board of Education filed last week to
limit access to information for three government watchdogs, a group of
residents chided the board, calling for it to drop the suit and apologize.
"We are protesting your audacity in suing three dedicated citizens in town
for harassment," said Lee Pacifico, president of the Lyndhurst Taxpayers
Association, who was cheered on by about 50 others during the board's
regular meeting Tuesday night. "You're the ones liable for harassment."
The protests came four days after Lyndhurst residents Stanley Kaminski, Mary
Sheridan, and Elaine Stella -- all members of the taxpayers group -- were
notified of the lawsuit, which accused the three of harassing school
officials by demanding hundreds of documents and reports during the past two
years.


Washington Post 8/18/00
E-mail searches skip private Clinton, Gore accounts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46858-2000Aug17.html

by Neely Tucker
President Clinton, Vice President Gore and their wives have had private
electronic mail accounts under pseudonyms since the administration took
office nearly eight years ago, but the accounts have not been searched
despite a court-ordered investigation of computerized messages, a White
House computer consultant testified in federal court this week.
A White House spokesman said there are no hidden messages in the accounts,
and President Clinton has said he doesn't use e-mail, because of security
concerns.
"I have no reason to think there's anything that's not on either backup
tapes or the electronic archives," said White House spokesman Jake Siewert.
"We have searched the entire e-mail system to be as responsive as possible."



San Jose Mercury News 8/20/00
U.S. weighs release of documents on Chile
http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/cia20.htm

Christopher Marquis
New York Times
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and CIA Director George
Tenet are at odds over the extent to which the United States should release
documentation of its involvement with repressive Latin American regimes in
decades past.
During a visit to South America last week, Albright pledged to push for the
``fullest possible declassification'' of files related to the coup that
toppled Chile's elected Socialist government and the 17-year military
dictatorship that followed.
She also promised to start reviewing, for release, documents about
Argentina's ``disappeared'' and their children, victims of state-sanctioned
kidnappings during successive regimes from 1976 to 1983.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 8/17/00
Organization sues city over records request in paint case
U.S. Chamber of Commerce says city is 'stonewalling', city says suit is
harassment
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug00/lead17081600a.asp

by Tom Kertscher
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday sued the City of Milwaukee over
the chamber's request for public records related to the city's possible
lawsuit against lead paint manufacturers.
In a prepared statement, the chamber said the city is "stonewalling" in
providing records that could have an effect on whether the Common Council
decides to sue lead paint manufacturers.
Aldermen have scheduled a vote for Sept. 6 on filing any suit.



Rocky Mountain News 8/17/00
District courts being electronics filing
http://insidedenver.com/news/0817fil8.shtml

by M.E. Sprengelmeyer
At 12:02 a.m. on July 31, family law lawyer Russel Murray III clicked a
button on his computer and sent filings in a divorce case to an Arapahoe
County court.
It was the first electronic court filing in a program that will soon make
Colorado the first state in the country with statewide e-filing for district
courts.
On Monday, the program expanded to include district courts in Douglas,
Elbert and Lincoln counties. By January, all the state's district courts,
plus the Denver Probate Court, will be accepting court filings online
through JusticeLink.



Evansville Courier & Press 8/18/00
Ex-American General official denies ordering destruction of documents
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200008/18+documents081800_news.
html+20000818

by Dave Hosick
A former employee of Evansville-based American General Finance has denied
ordering anyone to shred important legal documents, saying the woman who
accused him is retaliating against the company.
Julie Greathouse, a paralegal at American General Finance, has been on
administrative leave since she came forward with accusations that her former
supervisor, Ron DiGiacomo, instructed her to destroy documents relating to
the bankruptcy of A.G. Financial Service Center Inc., a subsidiary to
American General Finance.



San Jose Mercury News 8/20/00
White House will fortify privacy of medical records
http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/medical20.htm

by Robert Pear
New York Times
WASHINGTON -- After nine months of blistering criticism from doctors,
patients and consumer groups, the Clinton administration says it has decided
to strengthen protections for the privacy of medical records, beyond what it
proposed last year.
But administration officials said the new rules, to be issued before the
Nov. 7 election, would not give patients full control of their medical
records, as many advocates of privacy rights had recommended.
They would, however, establish comprehensive federal standards requiring
doctors, hospitals, pharmacists and insurance companies to limit the
disclosure of medical information about individual patients.



Calgary Herald 8/20/00
Source says government to review maligned Access to Information Act
http://www.southam.com/calgaryherald/newsnow/cpfs/national/000820/n082049.ht
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by Nahlah Ayed
HALIFAX (CP) - The federal government plans a comprehensive review of
Canada's much-maligned access to information law after years of complaints
and calls for an overhaul. A source who did not wish to be identified said
the plan is expected to be outlined Monday when Justice Minister Anne
McLellan speaks to the annual convention of the Canadian Bar Association.
The 17-year-old Access to Information Act gives Canadians the right to apply
for and obtain copies of records under the control of the federal
government.
But the law provides for a number of exemptions that limit access and almost
since its inception has been criticized for often concealing more than it
reveals.


New York Daily News 8/20/00
Coopestown Haul of Fame
Thieves steal millioons in baseball treasures
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-08-20/News_and_Views/Scandal_Sheet/a-77191.a
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by Michael O'Keefe and Bill Madden
On a summer day in 1972, a thief slipped into an exhibit room at the
National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., closed the door,
removed six screws from the bottom of a wooden display case, and took out
five baseballs - all autographed by presidents and now worth up to $1
million. The thief left a Cooperstown brochure in their place, put the top
back on the display case, and escaped undetected.
The Daily News has learned that for years the Hall of Fame was an easy mark
for thieves, who stole everything from DiMaggio caps to historic documents.
Some of these items, collectively now worth millions, are showing up in the
booming sports memorabilia and collectibles markets.



Seattle Times 8/20/00
Lack of penalties vexing in school-district cases of closing out the press
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/html98/fan20_20000820.html

by Mike Fancher
Times Executive Order
Taxpayers have been stuck with more than $120,000 in legal bills recently,
because school officials in the area tried to keep public records secret.
As galling as that waste of money is, the dollar cost is only part of the
problem.
Even more disturbing are the tactics officials used to block access to
public information and the lack of penalty for their actions.
The recent cases involve the Mercer Island and Seattle School Districts.
Neither was a close call legally. The records in question should have been
released in a timely way, as required by the state's Open Records act.



Las Vegas Sun 8/19/00
Black Confederates Slaves or soldiers"
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2000/aug/19/510656898.htm
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by Kristen Peterson
When the Civil War siege of Vicksburg, Miss., ended, Stan Armstrong's
great-great grandfather, Confederate Capt. John David Herndon and his son,
Joseph, returned home to Louisiana on mules.
Although parolled by Gen. Ulysses Grant's forces after losing at Vicksburg,
the two Rebel soldiers soon picked up their guns for the battle of
Mansfield, La., where they again fought the "Yankees confiscating the land."

Armstrong is well versed in his ancestors' Civil War experiences. Like many
whose roots stem from the Old South, his family history was passed down
orally from generation to generation.
But the Las Vegas filmmaker's roots put him in a quandry.



Duluth News Tribune 8/20/00
Hospital mishandles donated-tissue records
http://www.duluthnews.com/news/day1/dnt/local/hosp.htm

Associated Press
MADISON -- An independent audit has revealed that University of Wisconsin
Hospital lost money because it failed to keep adequate records about the
financing of its organ procurement program.
The audit, conducted by KPMG in Milwaukee, found the hospital did not bill
for some services it provided to the private company Allograft Resources of
Wisconsin, which was chosen to retrieve donated human tissue.
Donna Sollenberger, the hospital's chief executive officer, said the
hospital will try to reclaim money owed the hospital for hearts, heart
valves, bones, skin, and the use of phones and services, among other things.

``The most troubling part of 0the audit was the fact that there were
services that clearly (the tissue bank) should have been billed for and
weren't,'' she said.




Boston Globe 8/20/00
Abbie Hoffman's writings, socks, donated to Uconn
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/233/region/Abbie_Hoffman_s_writings_socks:.s
html

Associated Press
STORRS, Conn. (AP) The writings, FBI surveillance files, and even dirty
socks of 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman are now the property of the University
of Connecticut.
The Hoffman papers and memorabilia were given to UConn this summer by Jack
Hoffman, brother of the late Yippie.
The collection includes books, letters, buttons, pins, a collection of
T-shirts and a pair of well-worn red, white and blue socks. They will be
kept at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center for human rights.
The donation comes just before the release of a major movie about Hoffman
called ''Steal This Movie.''
In 1968, Hoffman started the Yippie movement, or Youth International Party,
to bring together radicals to protest the government and the Vietnam War.





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