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Gainesville Sun 9/1/00
Documents show dispute over Harn director
http://www.sunone.com/articles/2000-09-01e.shtml

by Carrie Miller
Because she lied about holding a Ph.D. from New York University, Inez Wolins
was forced to resign her position as the director of the Harn Museum,
according to documents released Thursday by the University of Florida.
UF officials have refused this week to comment on Wolins' resignation,
tendered Aug. 25 and announced by the university Aug. 28, other than to say
she resigned her $125,000-a-year position because of "family reasons."


Baltimore Sun 9/1/00
Blame set in records denial
Civil servants need to know public's rights, officials say
http://www.sunspot.net/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename
=story&storyid=1150430203962

by Mark Ribbing and Rafael Alvarez
Marylanders who get the runaround when they go looking for public documents
- whether from local police or the state ethics commission - are the victims
of civil servants who should know better, according to government officials
contacted yesterday.
An audit this week showed that citizens have a 50-50 chance of getting to
see documents available to them under state law. When The Sun attempted to
get basic arrest information from police departments around the metro area
Wednesday, it succeeded less than half the time.


Baltimore Sun 9/1/00
Credit card use records lacking
Some purchase logs, statements not filed in county program
http://www.sunspot.net/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename
=story&storyid=1150430203758

by Scott Calvert
Nearly one-quarter of Anne Arundel County <http://www.co.anne-arundel.md.us>
employees with active county government credit cards have not filed required
monthly statements and purchase logs with the finance office, records show -
a far higher percentage than previously reported.
Of 367 employees who use their cards regularly, 88 did not submit backup
material for at least one month this year, according to a list released to
The Sun under the Maryland Public Information Act.
The finance office has no backup records for five employees' accounts from
January through June. Nor does it have paperwork for several other accounts
covering three, four or five months' worth of bills. Those bills have been
paid.



The Courier Journal 9/1/00
Volunteers sidelined until records are reviewed
New law on background checks hinders Jefferson County schools
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0009/01/000901volunteers.html

by Holly Coryell
A state law intended to protect children from volunteers with a criminal
record is keeping volunteers out of Jefferson County schools.
As a result, some schools have had to cancel field trips, fund-raisers,
class parties, tutoring and other activities that depend on volunteers.
A law that took effect in July requires background checks, which have been
caught up in a processing quagmire. For the most part, volunteers can't set
foot inside a school until the state has cleared them.
"It left us without any parent volunteers," Schaffner Elementary School
principal Amelia Tyra said of the law. "The first part of the year is just
packed with activities, and almost everything we do has volunteers."
The new law requires all public school districts to have background checks
run on every volunteer who has continuing contact with students, and those
who supervise children at a school site or on school-sponsored field trips.



Tulsa World 9/1/00
Records act shaped to benefit everybody
http://search.tulsaworld.com/archivesearch/default.asp?WCI=DisplayStory&ID=0
00901_Ne_a13reco

by Justin Juozapavicius
Public records can help prospective employers or people researching
genealogy.
Although reporters use public records to gather news, most people use them
to understand proposed zoning issues in their community, find crime reports
for insurance claims or even track down their family history.
That's the way the Open Records Act is designed, said Mark Thomas, the
executive vice president of the Oklahoma Press Association.
"Joe Six-Pack doesn't want to know the salaries of the sheriff and all his
deputies," Thomas said. "Joe Six-Pack just wants to know if the sheriff has
his brother in jail or not."
Thomas said the overriding principle of the Open Records Act, which requires
officials to make public certain records in their possession, is that all
political power is inherent in the people.
"If people don't understand this concept, how else can they know if their
government is doing a good job unless they have access to these records?" he
said.


Tulsa World 9/2/00
Records Act is rarely enforced
http://search.tulsaworld.com/archivesearch/default.asp?WCI=DisplayStory&ID=0
00902_Ne_a13recor

By Ziva Branstetter
A law on the books in Oklahoma makes it a misdemeanor to violate the
Oklahoma Open Records Act, but it is rarely -- if ever -- enforced by the
state's district attorneys.
A Tulsa World survey of more than a dozen district attorneys across the
state could find no examples of cases in which someone had been charged with
violating the act. Instead, DAs operate a more informal system, reminding
pub lic officials that they need to obey the law.
The Open Records Act, Title 51, sections 24A.1-24A.24, requires public
bodies to make a wide array of documents available to the public.


Grand Rapids Press 9/1/00
Ford Museum historian shifts role
http://gr.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000901gford01104803.frm

by Ed White
Richard Norton Smith, the historian who led a $5 million overhaul of the
Gerald R. Ford Museum, is resigning as the director but will stay in Grand
Rapids as the executive director of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.
Smith also is joining Grand Valley State University as a distinguished
professor of U.S. presidential history. The changes take effect today.
"This is just a new chapter, not an end to anything," Smith said. "I will
remain very active in the museum."
In the newly created job of foundation executive director, he will continue
to bring new exhibits to the museum. Smith said he also will plan
conferences and help raise money.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 9/1/00
Peltz Group acquires Madison paper shredder
Firm improves position in document destruction services
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/aug00/peltz01083100a.asp

by Paul Gores
The Peltz Group Inc. has acquired a Madison paper shredding company to
enhance its position in the growing document-destruction business.
With the acquisition of Economy Shredding Service, Milwaukee-based Peltz
adds a fifth mobile shredder to its statewide fleet, company officials said
Thursday. Truck-mounted mobile shredders allow clients to destroy unneeded
but sensitive documents at their places of business instead of having them
hauled away to a plant for shredding.


WorldNetDaily 9/1/00
NSC e-mail also missing
Letter 'D' anomaly, other 'glitches' scuttled records on issues like China
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_sperry_news/20000901_xnspy_nsc_email_.s
html

by Paul Sperry
WASHINGTON -- Computer contractor Yiman F. Salim must have felt like a
plumber. The White House e-mail-archiving system had sprung yet another
leak, and Salim was called in again to help fix it.
It was April 1999, and she'd found a new problem with the Automated Records
Management System put together by the Clinton-Gore team to store and search
electronic messages, as required by a 1994 law.
This time, ARMS was rejecting all in-coming e-mail sent to White House users
whose first name starts with the letter "D."
The "bleeding" started in November 1998 -- the same month, curiously enough,
that a more than two-year gap in records for e-mail sent to the White House
server used by President Clinton and his staff had ended. Some 500 users
were affected.



Daily Oklahoman 9/3/00
Hugo police chief eagerly complies with records act
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=543454&pic=none&TP=getartic
le

by JayGreen
On a day early in the summer, newspaper reporters visited the Hugo Police
Department, wanting records from May 27.
The reporters were part of a statewide access project to see who in Oklahoma
was hewing to the Open Records Act. Hugo Police Chief Layton Cox passed with
flying colors. He was one of the best. He readily and graciously complied
with the reporters' requests.
As they gathered up the public records, Cox said, "You don't even know what
you've got there." Then he informed the reporters that they would find in
their stack a report that would show that a city commissioner's grandson had
been arrested and booked into jail on charges that he transported marijuana.



Daily Oklahoman 9/3/00
Police say records charge was mistake
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=542697&pic=none&TP=getartic
le

by Jack Money
Oklahoma City police blame miscommunication for records clerks' attempt to
charge thousands of dollars for a radio log report requested by reporters.
Police Chief M.T. Berry said records clerks should have sent the reporters
to his public information officers, where the request could have been
handled for just $8.
Instead, the clerks determined The Oklahoman was making commercial requests
and applied fees that would be charged to any other business, such as
attorneys' offices or insurance companies.



Austin American Statesman 9/4/00
History Center tries to fill in gaps in Austin's past
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/monday/metro_state_3.html

by Leah Quin
Mandy was a cook for a family in Austin. The Huston College Athenians were
the state's basketball champs in 1928. And a Holstein once chewed cud on
Riverside Farms, where the Texas Capitol loomed in the west, above the
trees.
All of them are frozen for one black-and-white second. Photographs catch
their attitudes -- Mandy's rolled-up sleeves and a pipe clenched in her
mouth -- and places long gone -- such as the Greek-columned building behind
the posed basketball team. The building was razed to make room for
Interstate 35.



Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 9/4/00
Pictorial History preserved
Retired Corinth photographer donates negatives from 40-year career
http://www.djournal.com/djournal/site/articles/news/wcicsPre.htm

by Jane Clark Summers
CORINTH -- From 1942 to 1990, except for two years spent in the military,
Melvin McClamroch took photographs of Corinth families, places and events,
recording on film the history of several generations and a growing
community.
Recently he donated his collection of negatives from the latter 40 years of
his career to the Northeast Mississippi Museum to preserve the pictorial
history for future generations.



ABCNEWS.GO.COM 9/4/00
A cartoon death on your conscience
Reader 'killed off' Peanuts character
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/peanuts000904.html

Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 4 -- In 1954, Charles M. Schulz added a new character to
the Peanuts gang, a loudmouthed girl named Charlotte Braun. But she wasn't
very popular, and soon Schulz promised a reader that he'd get rid of her.
"I am taking your suggestion regarding Charlotte Braun and will eventually
discard her," Schulz wrote to Elizabeth Swaim on Jan. 5, 1955, responding to
a letter she and her friends had written him.
"Remember, however, that you and your friends will have the death of an
innocent child on your conscience. Are you prepared to accept such
responsibility?" At the bottom of the handwritten letter is a drawing of the
ill-fated character, with an ax on her head.
In April of this year, two months after Schulz died, Swaim informed the
Library of Congress that she would be donating the letter to the library.



Log Cabin Democrat 9/4/00
UCA Archives to recognize collections with receptions
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/090400/loc_0904000011.html

by Fred Petrucelli
Two conspicuous occurrences will enliven the mood of the archives section of
the University of Central Arkansas in the days ahead.
Archivist Jimmy Bryant reveals he has made arrangements for two receptions
to accommodate biographical materials of former World War II airman Theodore
C. Hood, and former Arkansas Gov. Ben T. Laney.
A reception for Hood, who took part in 35 bombing missions aboard a B-17
bomber in World War II, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, and
another for Gov. Laney is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, in the
archives offices of the Torreyson Library.



Albuquerque Journal 9/4/00
BIA Trust lawsuit heats up
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/115934news09-04-00.htm

by Matt Kelley
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A multibillion-dollar lawsuit over mismanagement of American
Indian trust accounts continues to be a headache for the federal government
more than a year and a half after a judge held two Cabinet secretaries in
contempt of court.
With arguments in a crucial government appeal scheduled for Tuesday, lawyers
for the Indians now are asking U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth for
another contempt citation against officials, including Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbitt and Assistant Interior Secretary Kevin Gover.






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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