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TCPalm.com 10/13/00
FDLE goes online with records
< http://www.tcpalm.com/news/12v402.shtml >

by Jaime Hernandez
Associated Press
MIAMI - Florida launched an online law-enforcement records system Wednesday 
that will allow people to check to see if the goods they want to buy are 
stolen or if someone they know is wanted. 
The new Florida Department of Law Enforcement site allows people to enter 
identification numbers for items ranging from household appliances to 
vehicles and license plates to see if they've been reported stolen. 
If an item is in the database, people can click on it and e-mail a tip to 
police. An arrest can earn a tipper up to a $1,000 reward. 


Orange County Register 10/13/00
Utilities asked for financial records
http://www.ocregister.com/business/cpuc01013cci4.shtml

by Kate Berry
The California Public Utilities Commission has asked for extensive financial 
information from the state's three investor-owned utilities, which are trying 
to recover billions from consumers for the higher cost of wholesale 
electricity prices this summer. 
Administrative law judge Angela Minkin ruled Oct. 5 that Southern California 
Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Pacific Gas & Electric must submit bound 
volumes of financial information to the commission by Oct. 17. 
The information requested includes various revenue accounts set up under 
deregulation, the book value of retained power plants, bond information and 
quarterly earnings from 1997 to 2000. 


The Globe and Mail 10/13/00
Military destroyed peacekeeper records
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/National/20001013/UCROAN.html

by Timothy Appleby
Documents detailing complaints by former Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia of 
exposure to contaminants were removed from the soldiers' medical files and 
destroyed, the military acknowledged yesterday.
But investigators said the deletions were made in error and that there is no 
basis for criminal charges. Nor can any charges be laid under the Canadian 
Forces' own code of rules because of a three-year statute of limitations in 
place at the time.
The investigation by a task force of the Canadian Forces' National 
Investigation Service arose from complaints by hundreds of soldiers who 
served in Croatia in 1993-95.
Fears were voiced that they had been exposed to dangerous substances in the 
soil, and many of the soldiers blamed the exposure for still-unexplained 
illnesses they suffer, from headaches and chronic fatigue to bowel problems 
and sleeplessness.



Boston Globe 10/13/00
E-mail review leads to 1 office
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/287/metro/E_mail_review_leads_to_1_office%2b

.shtml

by Stephanie Ebbert
A harshly critical e-mail sent to a city councilor and later discovered to be 
fraudulent appears to have been sent from the office of Councilor at Large 
Peggy Davis-Mullen, according to a review of the city computer system log 
files. 
Documents obtained by the Globe under the Freedom of Information Act show 
that a message was sent from the computer assigned to Davis-Mullen aide 
Martin Keogh at 3:16:35 p.m. on Sept. 21, the precise time that the scathing 
Yahoo! e-mail was transmitted to Councilor Brian Honan (Brighton). 
Yesterday, Keogh strongly denied he authored the e-mail and accused the city 
administration of releasing inaccurate computer data to implicate 
Davis-Mullen, a frequent critic of the mayor. 
But Keogh, who initially allowed a reporter to view his computer files, 
repeatedly refused to show a reporter an example of his outgoing e-mail, 
which would identify the coding on messages sent from his terminal. 


The Times of London 10/14/00
City women sacked for sending e-mail porn
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,19379,00.html

by Caroline Merrell and Adam Fresco
FIFTEEN traders and staff at the City bank Merrill Lynch were dismissed 
instantly yesterday after they were caught circulating pornography on the 
internal e-mail system. 
The eight men and seven women were ordered by the management to leave the 
premises yesterday morning. 
The bank, one of the biggest securities firms in the City of London, said in 
a statement: "As per Merrill Lynch policy, the firm will not tolerate any 
abuse of its business e-mail system, particularly when extremely offensive 
material is involved. When the abuse was discovered, after proper 
investigations had taken place, the individuals concerned were dismissed." 


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/13/00
Frick foundation, relatives dispute location of archives
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001013frick7.asp

by Jim McKinnon
Common Pleas Judge Lee J. Mazur will rule within the next 30 days on motions 
and arguments made by all sides in the dispute over where the personal 
archives of Helen Clay Frick should be kept -- in Pittsburgh or New York. 
Mazur heard arguments yesterday in Orphan's Court, where attorneys for 
Arabella Dane and Martha Sanger, grandnieces of Frick, and lawyers for the 
Helen Clay Frick Foundation trustees, who voted to move the archives, have 
filed objections to the other's efforts. 
In November, trustees of the foundation, which owns the archives, voted 10-1 
to move them to New York's Frick Art Reference Library in Manhattan. 


ABCNews.com 10/13/00
Digitizing the Grateful Dead
Live Recordings being preserved to keep the band jamming forever
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/DailyNews/gratefuldead101300.

html

by Mark Brown
Wall of Sound
The plan to digitize and release the massive Grateful Dead live vault is 
moving along quickly, and fans will soon be able to vote on which shows they 
want to hear first and eventually have access to nearly 2,000 full Grateful 
Dead concerts. 
The deal to digitize the vault - an issue that has estranged bassist Phil 
Lesh from the band - will be signed in just days, according to guitarist Bob 
Weir. 
"The deal to put it all together is very close. It's a matter of a few days 
off," Weir says. "But then we have to actually digitize the vault. Once our 
investors decide, 'OK, we're going to do it,' we're going to draw up the 
terms." 


St. Louis Post Dispatch 10/13/00
Governor's office release cache of Olympic documents
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/Sports/AFD122417D9AF4438625697700

7CB881?OpenDocument

by Paul Foy
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- When the Olympic bribery scandal was heating up, Gov. 
Mike Leavitt's chief economic development official fired off a worried note 
to the governor.
``Unfortunately, the Olympics scandal is renewing our reputation for having 
too many financial scams,'' Dave Winder wrote in February 1999.
The fraud-busting Securities and Exchange Commission says the reputation 
lives on.
``That's why we have an office here,'' Kenneth Israel, head of SEC's Salt 
Lake office, said Friday. ``We're swamped.''
Other documents obtained from the governor's office show an early effort by 
Olympic organizers at spin control.


ST. Louis Post Dispatch 10/13/00
Judge tells White House, Northrop Grumman to let facts come out
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/65394B080B24C50F86256977

006D3426?OpenDocument

by Pete Yost
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge challenged the White House and its 
computer contractor on Friday to let ``the facts ... come out'' about what 
the Clinton administration knew in 1998 regarding hundreds of thousands of 
lost e-mails.
Northrop Grumman Corp. is claiming attorney-client privilege in refusing to 
disclose information that might shed light on whether White House lawyers and 
top presidential aides learned 2.5 years ago about an e-mail problem and 
alleged threats against employees who knew about it. The problem didn't 
become public until this year.
The e-mail archiving problem resulted in the White House's failure to review 
a huge amount of White House message traffic for investigators in the 
Lewinsky scandal, the Whitewater investigation and the campaign fund-raising 
controversy.


Akron Beacon Journal 10/13/00
Campaign suit seeks records
Researcher for Summit executive candidate Don Robart wants copies of 330 
checks
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/016485.htm

by Gregory Korte
The campaign for Summit County executive -- already expected to be the most 
expensive, contentious and perhaps negative in the county's history -- has 
now spawned a lawsuit. 
A former Cuyahoga Falls police chief, doing opposition research for 
Republican Don Robart, asked Summit County Auditor James McCarthy to release 
public records of some 330 county checks to several companies that later gave 
kickbacks to top county officials. 
The former chief, Donald S. Smith, says McCarthy refused. So he filed suit 
this week seeking a court order forcing McCarthy to turn over the records. 
McCarthy denies trying to stonewall the request -- which, he noted, 
specifically mentions documents with McCarthy's own signature on them. 
McCarthy said he wouldn't be surprised if the documents are later used in 
Republican attack ads. 


Reuters 10/12/00
FCC moves to halt leaks of nonpublic documents
http://www.mediacentral.com/channels//allnews/10_12_2000.reutr-story-N12467871

.html

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a step Thursday to clamp 
down on a series of embarrassing leaks of confidential, market-sensitive 
documents regarding issues and mergers pending before the agency. 
The FCC revised its rules to require that anyone who works for a company 
regulated by the FCC or who practices before the commssion and receives 
nonpublic documents must return them without further use or distribution of 
the materials. 
"It is not too much to expect parties who appear before the commission to do 
their part to respect and promote the integrity of our processes," FCC 
Chairman William Kennard said at the agency's monthly open meeting. 
Last month, the Washington Post reported it had obtained a copy of an FCC 
cable services bureau draft order which recommended the agency approve 
America Online Inc.'s proposed purchase of Time Warner Inc. with conditions. 


Washington Post 10/13/00
CBO request for census, tax records raises fears
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63250-2000Oct12.html

by D'Vera Cohn
The Congressional Budget Office wants access to federal census and tax 
records to assess the impact of Social Security and Medicare reform 
proposals, an idea that has alarmed the Census Bureau and privacy and civil 
rights groups.
Although Census Bureau and CBO officials continued to negotiate yesterday, a 
privacy advocate criticized the proposal as "potentially opening the 
floodgates" to wider uses of personal information in government records.
The CBO is seeking a "linked data set"--records on the same set of people 
from the Internal Revenue Service, two Census Bureau surveys and the Social 
Security Administration. The office says the information will be used for 
sophisticated economic modeling.


Seattle Times 10/12/00
State loses appeal bid, must pay $19 million
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/gotoAr

ticle?zsection_id=268448480&text_only=0&slug=beck12m&document_id=134238848

by Mike Carter
The only thing left for the state to do is write the check: nearly $19 
million because a piece of paper sat in a lawyer's office 10 days too long. 
The state Supreme Court yesterday, in a one-sentence order, unanimously 
rejected the attorney general's last-chance bid to seek an appeal for the 
largest personal-injury verdict the state has ever had to pay. 
The order ends a three-year fight by the families of three developmentally 
disabled men - Damon Beckman, Eric Busch and William Coalter - who were 
sexually and physically abused in an adult family home in Bremerton licensed 
by the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). 


Computerworld 10/10/00 (Australia)
Deleting e-mail illegal warns Archive Director
http://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.nsf/Print/CC33C85C94CF73304A2569730083777E!Open

Document

by Sandra Van Dijk and Kelly Mills
Federal government agencies have been warned that, for them, deleting e-mail 
is illegal. E-mail should be treated the same as paper records under the 
Archives Act of 1983. 
At least one federal IT boss is surprised. Con Gatsios, IT manager for the 
Melbourne Office of Federal Public Prosecutions, said deleting and 
maintaining e-mails was each individual's responsibility. 
A directive that people should not delete any of their e-mails would be 
impossible to police and maintain, he said. "The amount of space all these 
e-mails would take up would be insane." 
The warning comes from National Archives of Australia acting director-general 
Steve Stuckey following an article in Computerworld (August 28, page 8), 
which outlined new software that could make e-mail disappear after a set 
period of time. 


The Irish Times 10/13/00
Century Radio letters missing from Govt files
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/1013/hom33.htm

A number of letters about Century Radio and RTÉ transmission charges were 
missing from the official Government files, the Flood tribunal heard 
yesterday. 
Mr Michael Grant, assistant secretary at the Department of Arts, Heritage, 
Gaeltacht and the Islands, told the tribunal he could not find a 1989 letter 
from Mr Ray Burke, then minister for communications, to Mr Justice Seamus 
Henchy, who was the IRTC chairman at that time. 
He also said that he had no record of two letters written by Century Radio 
director Mr James Stafford to Mr Burke in 1990. 
Mr Grant was assistant secretary at the Department of Industry, Commerce and 
Communications when Mr Burke was communications minister. 




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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