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RAIN 09/28: Ned Kelly's Armour found
Burlington Hawkeye 9/27/00
Open records class offered by attorney general's office
http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln270913.html
The Iowa Attorney General's Office has organized a class to help government
employees better understand the state's open records law.
Attorney General spokesman Bob Brammer said the class will be broadcast over
the Iowa Communications Network Nov. 28.
Quad City Times 9/27/00
Public Records provide safeguard for citizens
http://www.qctimes.com/local/story2.html
by Marc Chase
That is a phrase used in most introductory journalism courses. It refers to
the importance of open records, allowing the citizens and newspapers to keep
on eye on the people trusted to protect, serve and manage the funds of the
public.
Here are some examples of how public records in the Quad-Cities helped root
out wrong-doing or led to reform in public agencies.
Quad City Times 9/27/00
Quad-City lawsuits affirmed openness
http://www.qctimes.com/local/story3.html
by Tom Saul
Absent prosecution of open records and open meetings law violations, media
organizations and others sometimes turn to private litigation to enforce the
laws.
In 1998 the Quad-City Times filed suit against the city of Davenport and
former police chief Steve Lynn to get access to police incident reports in
which officers were named as victims, complainants or suspects. The
department said the information was not public.
San Antonio Express News 9/27/00
AG appeals school open records case
http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/san94323.shtml
by Lucy Hood
The attorney general's office is asking the Texas Supreme Court to honor a
1998 open records request made by the San Antonio Express-News to obtain
information from the Harlandale School District.
Almost two months after the 3rd Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the school
district, the attorney general's office submitted its appeal to the state's
highest civil court last week. It is now up to the Texas Supreme Court to
decide if it will hear the case.
"We felt that the information that was being requested for release was ... in
fact something the school district needed to release," said Heather Browne, a
spokeswoman for the state's chief counsel.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 9/27/00
Post-Dispatch seeks access to salary records
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/News%2FHeadlines/15F0608143E5A79D862
56967005BA7D2?OpenDocument&Headline=Post-Dispatch%20seeks%20access%20to%20sala
ry%20records
by Terry Ganey
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over
whether the Post-Dispatch deserved access to the salary records of Burleigh
Arnold, the special deputy in charge of the largest insurance company
receivership in state history.
Joe Martineau, an attorney for the Pulitzer Publishing Co., argued that the
public had a common law right of access to court records. He said those
records included Arnold's salary since he was employed by a court and the
state Department of Insurance to supervise the Transit Casualty Insurance Co.
receivership.
Martineau said Arnold's salary and bonus records were similar to those of a
bankruptcy trustee, which are open to public inspection in other courts.
Baltimore Sun 9/27/00
Lawsuit on MDE papers in court
Bay foundation says documents will show delays on water act, State asserts
privilege
http://www.sunspot.net/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename=s
tory&storyid=1150470209941
by Andrea F. Siegel
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Maryland Department of the Environment
will square off in an Annapolis courtroom today as the conservation group
asks a judge to force the state agency to turn over nearly 1,000 documents it
suspects will bolster its claim that the state is slow in complying with the
federal Clean Water Act.
The nonprofit organization and the state agency have been tangling over
access to the documents since 1997. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is arguing
that it has the right to see the records, which it thinks will help it in a
federal lawsuit in which it and two other groups are seeking to speed the
cleanup of Maryland's waterways.
The Irish Times 9/27/00
Quai d'Orsay's photo treasures brought to light
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2000/0927/wor13.htm
by Lara Marlow
Paris Letter: For a century they slept inside their red-and-brown leather
covers embossed in gold with the words "Ministry of Foreign Affairs".
It took a visit by Michéle Védrine, the wife of the present Foreign Minister,
to the ministry's archives in an old army barracks in Nantes, to bring the
Quai d'Orsay's photographic treasures to light. Most of the estimated 400,000
photos have not even been catalogued.
"They arrived at the Quai d'Orsay from the four corners of the earth, usually
glued to diplomatic telegrams," Pierre Fournié, the ministry's chief
archivist explained. "Then they were assembled in bound volumes." Long before
the word processor, the accompanying texts were copied in exquisite
calligraphy.
Business Wire 9/27/00
Iron Mountain Incorporated and Tumbleweed Communications Corp. Combine
Strengths to Offer New Standard in Electronic Data Archiving
Millions Of Messages Per Day Can Be Archived By New Iron Mountain/Tumbleweed
Solutions
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000927/ma-iron-mt-tumbleweed
BOSTON and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) - Iron Mountain Incorporated
(NYSE:IRM), the global leader in records and information management services,
and Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of
Internet infrastructure for business messaging, today announced a
comprehensive strategic alliance to jointly develop, market and sell new
products and services for electronic data archiving.
Washington Post 9/27/00
Ivory Coast falsified document
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24389-2000Sep26.html
by Douglas Farah and James Rupert
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Sept. 26 -- The military government of the Ivory Coast
has falsified the U.S. marriage certificate of a prominent politician in an
effort to bar him from challenging Gen. Robert Guei in presidential elections
next month, according to Ivorians and a U.S. official. A copy of the original
document, obtained by The Washington Post, supports the accusation.
Guei, who took power in December after this West African country's first
military coup, is running for president in the election he has promised to
hold Oct. 22. In recent months, Guei has sought to disqualify his main
rivals--notably a former prime minister and longtime executive of the
International Monetary Fund, Alassane Ouattara. Guei says Ouattara is
ineligible because his family is originally from neighboring Burkina Faso.
Ouattara says he is fully Ivorian.
Business Wire 9/27/00
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Showcases the Goya Foods,
Inc. Collection During Hispanic Heritage Month
Smithsonian Collection Shows Evolution of a Family Business and Importance of
Cultural History
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000927/dc-smithsonian-goya-food
WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) - Donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of
American History in 1999, the Goya Foods, Inc. Collection documents the
history of the company from its founding by immigrants in the 1930s to its
present position as the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S.
Fox News 9/27/00
White House provides timeline for recovery of missing e-mails
http://www.foxnews.com/elections/092600/whitehouseemails.sml
WASHINGTON - In a letter to the chairman of the Government Reform Committee,
White House counsel Beth Nolan has laid out a timetable for recovery of the
White House "missing e-mails."
The recovery project will not begin full-on until mid-November and won't
likely be completed until next February. And those e-mails must be reviewed
by the FBI, Justice Department and White House before they can be turned over
to congressional investigators. This review process takes about a month.
A few documents may dribble through the process in the days ahead - but the
vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of e-mails will not be made
available until well after the elections.
Sydney Morning Herald 9/27/00
Ned's suitor tracks down the real armour
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0009/27/text/national6.html
by Farah Farouque
The Age
The story of the armour, which Ned Kelly is believed to have
fashioned for himself with the help of a gang member in a secret bush forge
near Benalla, seems to be steeped in as much legend as the bushranger himself.
Amateur historian Ken Oldis has spent two years tracking down the right suit,
and his conclusions have challenged the Establishment.
It had long been held that the helmet and breastplate in the State Library of
Victoria's pictorial collection belonged to Kelly gang member Steve Hart and
the real thing was on display at the Old Melbourne Jail.
Houston Chronicle 9/27/00
UTMB cleared to resume research
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/683530
by Leigh Hopper
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is back on track to
resume its research after hundreds of studies were halted this month by the
federal agency that oversees patient safety in research.
Just 12 days after ordering a shutdown of UTMB's federally funded research
involving human volunteers, the Office for Human Research Protections
accepted the school's plan to correct problems, UTMB officials said today.
Investor's Business Daily 9/28/00
Questions linger as 'E-sign' takes effect
http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech04.asp?v=9/27
by Donna Howell
Need a mortgage or a new car? You could soon ink that big deal with no ink at
all.
A federal law called E-Sign takes effect on Sunday. It gives legal standing
to documents signed with the click of a mouse, not just the swoop of a pen.
President Clinton signed the Electronic Signatures in Global and National
Commerce Act into law in June.
Before E-Sign, a person couldn't complete a purchase of a car, mortgage or
insurance policy on the World Wide Web. At some point, he had to sign a piece
of paper. Soon that won't be the case, thanks to the electronic signature law.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia
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