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RAIN 08/22: Lost in Lagos, OAH lawsuit and public records become more public.



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Anchorage Daily News 8/21/00
Chena resort charged with falsifying records
http://www.adn.com/metro/story/0,2633,187865,00.html

Associated Press
Fairbanks -- Chena Hot Springs Resort and two of its workers have pleaded
innocent to criminal charges that they falsified business records and didn't
keep chlorine levels up to standard in some of the resort's hot tubs.
The resort, general manager David Dominguez and former employee Carol
Douglas are charged with two felony counts of falsifying records stating
chlorine was added to an indoor hot tub and outdoor whirlpool spa.


Las Vegas Sun 8/21/00
Cell phone records to be public
Supreme Court rules against county's privacy bid
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2000/aug/21/510662439.html

by Cy Ryan
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Press Association, an organization of newspapers,
is applauding a unanimous ruling Friday by the state Supreme Court that
Clark County must open its records of cellular telephone calls made and
received by county commissioners and top appointive officials.
Association Director Kent Lauer said, "It's not surprising the court
rightfully sided with the public's right to know. Taxpayers foot the bill
for these cell phone privileges and they have every right to know exactly
how their money is being spent.
"The county government's arguments for secrecy in this case were pale in
comparison the rights of the public and press to monitor the conduct and
spending of government officials," said Lauer, whose association joined the
suit as a friend of the court.


Post Express (Lagos) 8/21/00
Missing Foreign Debt Files
http://allafrica.com/stories/200008210358.html

Lagos
A startling revelation about Nigeria's foreign debt came to light some days
ago. It came when the nation's attention was focused on the high profile
Senate probe.
The debt matter thus escaped many people's attention. According to the
report, seventy files containing documents on the nation's foreign debt
profile have disappeared.
The file could not be located in the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) and National Planning Commission. Those three institutions are
responsible for the management of the nation's debt portfolio.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8/21/00
Adam's Mark sues historians group that moved conference
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/News%2FHeadlines/F7E11350AFADC3FA8
6256942003EBE60?OpenDocument&Headline=Adams%20Mark%20sues%20historians%20gro
up%20that%20moved%20conference

Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Adam's Mark hotel chain, which is based in Creve
Coeur, Mo., is suing a historians group that pulled its annual meeting from
a downtown St. Louis hotel after learning the hotel chain had been charged
with discrimination.
Adam's Mark last week sued the Organization of American Historians, a
Bloomington-based group that studies American history. The suit, which seeks
about $100,000, was filed in U.S. District Court in Nebraska.



ZDNet News 8/20/00
Simplifying how you protect e-mail
Several small firms believe they have created simple, clever alternatives to
PKI for securing messages
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2617314,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews
01

by Scott Berinato and Dennis Fisher, eWEEK
You've heard the story about NASA spending millions of dollars to develop a
pen that could write in zero gravity while the Soviet Union used pencils.
For many security administrators, PKI (public-key infrastructure) is the
zero-gravity pen. But a crop of small companies believe they have the
pencils -- new products that offer simple, clever techniques to secure
messages without a massive, expensive overhaul of an enterprise.
Most of the products' techniques borrow from everyday technology, including
HTTP and online storage services, for example. The techniques are the latest
to take on the "Napster effect" -- that is, focusing on peer-to-peer
communications that take as many servers as possible out of a transmission.
The purveyors of the new products, including SafeLoop Inc. and Hilgraeve
Inc., have simply chosen to retrofit the wheel, rather than reinvent it.


Toledo Blade 8/21/00
Ship data sail online
http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0h21ship.htm

by Mike Tressler
BOWLING GREEN - Ships that sailed the Great Lakes form a rich record, much
of it archived at Bowling Green State University. Soon it will be on a web
site.
The Historical Collection of the Great Lakes department is plumbed by
scholars, and people wondering whether a family member was a captain or a
cabin boy.
Want to know when the freighter America first slid into the water? Need to
see a picture of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the mammoth freighter that went to
the bottom of Lake Superior in 1975?
The answers will be online. Many entries include pictures of ships, from
freighters to ferries. BGSU's Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
department has created a computer database of its immense stash of
information on vessels. Work was funded by a National Maritime Heritage
Grant from the National Park Service.



Washington Post 8/17/00
Back Channels
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/columns/backchannels/A4054
0-2000Aug16.html

by Vernon Loeb
The Intelligence Community
CIA Director George J. Tenet has fired back at critics inside and outside
government who are angry that he has decided to withhold hundreds of
documents relating to CIA covert operations in Chile.
In a letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other members of Congress,
Tenet said he was withholding the information to protect
intelligence-gathering methods. He noted that more than 700 other documents
the CIA will release "fully" meet President Clinton's directive for a broad
release of information relating to human rights abuses and political
violence in Chile from 1968 to 1991.



St.Paul/Minnesota Pioneer Planet 8/21/00
Hiding identity could be card trick author's best secret
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/2/living/docs/025124.htm


by Rachel Emma Silverman
Wall Street Journal
I n the shadowy world of card magic and gambling, one of the most
tantalizing mysteries of all surrounds the identity of a man who wrote under
the name S.W. Erdnase.
In 1902, he published a book called ``The Expert at the Card Table.'' In
vivid detail and elegant prose, the book revealed the secrets behind
intricate card tricks and quick-fingered cheating techniques.
What it didn't reveal was the true identity of its author. Erdnase never
made public appearances and never wrote another book -- at least not under
that name.



Christian Science Monitor 8/21/00
Public records get a little more public
New Jersey plans to put divorce records online other states debate following
suit
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/21/fp2s1-csm.shtml

by Kent Davis-Packard
Special to The Christian Science Monitor
New York -- Local courthouses are full of all kinds of interesting
information: child-custody cases, petitions for divorce on grounds of
everything from adultery to abuse, people's entire financial histories.
The information's always been public - but it hasn't always been easy for
casual observers to get. That's about to change.
Courts across the country are moving toward pouring their musty documents -
and all the juicy details they contain - onto the Internet. The move toward
a more cost-effective and efficient storage system will mean that, instead
of a picket fence, people will be able to peer over a computer screen to
snoop in their neighbors' private lives.



Mobile Register 8/17/00
More fliers blasting Nix, Fairhope mailed
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Aug2000/17-a398007a.html

by Lori Moore
FAIRHOPE - Residents here were greeted at their mailboxes Tuesday and
Wednesday by a geisha girl dancing under a purple sky - the pleasant cover
of another bitter political broadside against Fairhope
first-lady-turned-council-candidate Anne Nix.
Art Dyas of Montrose said the political action committee he chairs - Restore
Fairhope Values - mailed about 5,000 of the fliers to blast the city for not
providing requested records about a February trip to Japan by city officials
and their spouses, includ ing Mayor James P. Nix and his wife, Anne.
"Japan is a land of many secrets ... including how much Fairhope taxpayers
paid for Anne Nix's trip there," reads the flier. The charge resembles one
sent out last week by the same PAC that questioned whether taxpayers paid
for some of Anne Nix's travel and meals over the years - a contention
categorically denied by her and some city officials.



Electronic Telegraph 8/22/00
Letters by Lewis Carroll found locked in castle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=V6D3fwwK&atmo=V6D3fwwK
&pg=/et/00/8/22/nlet22.html

by Paul Stokes
SOME of the last letters written by Lewis Carroll have been found locked
away in a castle in Northumberland.
Most were signed in the author's real name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and
were written to his friend, Henry George Percy, who was to become the 7th
Duke of Northumberland. The five letters were discovered by archivists
working in Alnwick Castle. Written in 1896 and 1897, they were found on a
shelf in a locked journal inside a casket belonging to the Duke's mother,
Edith.
The journal was discovered by Colin Shrimpton, the castle's head archivist
who had to call in a locksmith. Lord Percy and Dodgson met at Christ Church,
Oxford, during the 1860s. Lord Percy was a student and Dodgson a mathematics
lecturer. At the time, Dodgson was in the process of publishing Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland under the name of Lewis Carroll.


Deseret News 8/21/00
Utah oper-records law may be revised due to technological advances
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,195008334,00.html?

by Lois M. Collins
Utah's Information Technology Commission has been asked to consider whether
Utah's open records law should be revised because of technological advances.
"It's a balloon," said Sen. David Steele, R-West Point, committee
co-chairman, who raised the issue at a meeting Thursday. "I tossed it up to
see what they think."
Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) clearly doesn't
distinguish between electronic and paper records, according to state
archivist Jeffrey Johnson.


Boston Herald 8/21/00
Hometown college, alma mater reject radical's artifacts
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/hoff08212000.htm

by Franci Richardson
Passed over by Brandeis and Clark universities, the writings and memorabilia
of Abbie Hoffman will be kept at the University of Connecticut, which has no
ties to the political activist of the 1960s.
``Good Lord, why didn't they give it to Brandeis?'' asked Boston University
professor Joseph Boskin, who lectures on the counterculture and regards
Hoffman as a hero. ``They (probably) didn't want to be associated with Abbie
Hoffman. Maybe his ethics offended them. What other reason might there be?''



The Herald 8/21/00
York County Sheriff's Office files response to lawsuit over sealed records
http://www.heraldonline.com/community/story/0,1325,187967,00.html

Staff Reports
YORK - The York County Sheriff's Office filed its response to a lawsuit by
The Herald over access to Sheriff's Office records concerning allegations of
deputies' misconduct.
"They (Sheriff's Office) seem 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 attorney representing The Herald. "The
question is: Are allegations of misconduct of public employees public or
private?"



The Halifax Herald 8/21/00
Ruling protects law offices from police seizures
http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaystory?2000/08/21+148.raw+NovaSco
tia

by Amy Pugsley
The way police investigate and seize files from lawyers' offices could be
affected after a recent ruling by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
In a landmark oral decision that went unnoticed by media in July, Chief
Justice Joseph P. Kennedy struck down Section 488.1 of the Criminal Code.
At the heart of Justice Kennedy's ruling is the protection of
solicitor-client privilege: that anything spoken or shown to a lawyer should
remain between them.
If police agencies can request legal documents relating to an investigation,
then use the information in a prosecution, that privilege is destroyed.




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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