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RAIN 10/15: Online records, destroyed records, Frick Archives
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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