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RAIN 11/03: Confidentiality Issues



Green Bay Press-Gazette 11/02/00
Documents involving De Pere school employee to stay closed until hearing
http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0011/1102closedocum.html

by Heather Stur
DE PERE -- The release of some documents relating to the administrative leave
of De Pere School District business manager Jeff Seeley would cause serious
damage to his reputation, according to a motion for a restraining order filed
in Brown County Circuit Court.
The restraining order, which Brown County Circuit Judge Peter Naze signed
Tuesday, is good until Monday, when a hearing has been scheduled for 9 a.m.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette has requested documents pertaining to Seeley's
leave, which began Sept. 21.
In a letter to De Pere School District Superintendent Richard Yenchesky,
dated Oct. 17, Seeley asked that the following not be released:


Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/02/00
Teachers oppose records release
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/local_news_

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by James Salzer
A request by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for records that would help in
checking out concerns about the driving records of school bus drivers has
triggered protests from teachers and threats of legal action from a group
that represents educators.
It also has helped spark a squabble between that group and another education
association. And it has added to political tensions surrounding the debate
between state School Superintendent Linda Schrenko and Gov. Roy Barnes over
his education reform efforts.
The records for bus drivers are contained in a larger database the AJC
requested from the state Department of Education and the Professional
Standards Commission.


The Forum 11/02/00
Judge to decide on medical records release
http://www.in-forum.com/pub/11022000/4998.shtml

by Helmut Schmidt
A North Dakota administrative law judge must now decide if one of the two
women claiming a physician-patient relationship with Fargo Dr. Alan Lindemann
must turn over her medical records.
After taking testimony at a teleconference hearing Wednesday, Allen Hoberg
told attorneys for Lindemann, the state Board of Medical Examiners and the
woman, identified as "C.H.", that he will rule shortly on whether the records
must be brought into evidence.
Lindemann's attorney, Todd Foss of Moorhead, is seeking the records to prove
his client didn't pursue relationships with the women while acting as their
doctor.



The Tennessean 11/02/00
Columbia to open building records
http://www.tennessean.com/local/00596717.shtml?Element_ID=596717

by Sue McClure
General contractor Richard Thompson says Columbia's codes department is
showing preference to certain builders by applying different building codes
to different people and projects.
On Tuesday he sued for access to public records to prove his premise - and a
judge ordered the city to come forward with the requested records at a 9 a.m.
hearing tomorrow on the matter.
"It's just a corrupt little operation that needs to come to an end,''
Thompson said. "Standard building codes are not being enforced.''



Contra Costa Times 11/02/00
Negatives fill spaces in Los Angeles history
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/california/stories/aerial_20001102.htm

Associated Press
REDLANDS -- Marilyn Thompson, widow of the pilot of a plane that crashed Jan.
31, tossed canisters of negatives of aerial photos into a trash can while
cleaning out the hangar of Ted Thompson's private plane.
He had been the pilot of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. All 88 people aboard
died.
But then Marilyn Thompson had a thought. Before the trash was picked up, she
contacted a friend at a firm that uses aerial photographs to see if anyone
could use them. Jim Imbiorski, vice president of Associated Engineers, called
to say Whittier College wanted the 23 canisters of negatives for its
Fairchild Aerial Photography Collection.
Stephanie Breaux, director of the Fairchild collection, said the photo
negatives pulled from the trash fill in many gaps in the Los Angeles aerial
landscape of the '50s and '60s. They include scenes of the Watts riots of
August 1965, construction of Dodger Stadium and the layout of Los Angeles
International Airport.
Thompson and other pilots had taken some of the 4,000 to 5,000 aerial
photographs for the business of William Blaine Thompson, Ted's father.



Roanoke Times 11/02/00
He makes history easier to handle
Bob Harshbarger gives 30 hours a week to index Botetourt County documents
dating back to 1770
He has indexed marriage licenses, court records and land deeds
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story101999.html

by Joanne Poindexter
FINCASTLE - Bob Harshbarger's search of his family history led him to a new
job where the top pay is three cups of coffee a day.
He started with one cup six years ago, creating an index for the earliest
documents from Botetourt County's 230-year history.
The bonuses are the smiles.
They're the happy looks on people who can research their ancestors or
property without toiling through books of old documents in the clerk's
office.
Harshbarger's meticulous lists make the old documents more accessible. In
30-hour weeks over the last six years, he's cataloged marriage licenses,
court records and land deeds.



The Age 11/03/00
Leaked papers the last straw
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20001103/A23514-2000Nov2.html
When power workers were leaked reams of internal documents from LaTrobe
Valley power company Yallourn Energy last week, it represented the last straw
in a long and fruitless battle.
For 18 months power workers had tried to negotiate with the company over a
new enterprise agreement, but the documents told them Yallourn was secretly
planning to sack them in an industrial saga in which millions of dollars and
thousands of livelihoods are at stake.
On the one hand was a British-based multinational that many industry
observers believed paid too much for the Yallourn power station in the heady
days of the then Kennett government's ambitious privatisation program.



PC World 10/30/00
Instant Folders Offers Instant Swapping
Service from Punch Networks lets you share and update documents securely and
quickly.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=33468

by Charles Bermant
special to PCWorld.com
Sharing documents online is about to get easier, no matter what kind of
documents you need to share. Instant Folders, an online file service recently
launched by Punch Networks, allows the easy trade of everything from complex
corporate documents to Little League schedules.
"This is a more automatic way for business users to distribute files," says
John H. Williams Jr., the company's vice president of marketing. "People who
share files won't be encumbered by the process of setting up group lists and
searching for attachments when they arrive." The program made its debut at
Internet World Fall 2000 Expo last week in New York.


Akron Beacon Journal 11/02/00
Goodyear taking heat
Pressure mounts on tire maker to release documents related to accidents
http://www.ohio.com/bj/business/docs/001689.htm

by John Russell
The pressure is growing on Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to turn over documents
on tires linked to at least 30 accidents, resulting in 120 injuries and 15
deaths.
Four groups are asking a New Jersey judge to unseal court records connected
to one of the accidents and to force the Akron company to turn over internal
documents on whether the tires were defective.
In recent weeks, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Journal law newspaper, and
plaintiffs in one of the cases have petitioned the court to make the records
available.
They were joined yesterday by the latest group seeking the records: Trial
Lawyers for Public Justice, a Washington group that has fought for more than
a decade, with some notable success, to make court documents more available
to the public.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11/02/00
Modest but mighty federal program reauthorized; NHPRC preserves and publishes
historical records
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/1A2586E13FB658768625698

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U.S.Newswire
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today President Clinton signed into law
a bill re-authorizing the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC). NHPRC is the grant-making affiliate of the National
Archives and Records Administration, and the bill authorizes funding up to
$10 million. The NHPRC has been called the ``mouse that roared'' because its
impact is so much larger than its budget.


Cincinnati Post 11/02/00
Family's welfare secrecy breached
http://www.cincypost.com/news/secret110200.html

by Mike Rutledge
The child knew something was wrong when she showed up at school one day and
other students were discussing some of the most personal, embarrassing
details of her life.
''People know all about us!'' the alarmed child told her mother.
Later, the family found out why: An acquaintance had stolen the
four-inch-thick, confidential Hamilton County Department of Human Services
file on the child and made it available for others to read at a neighborhood
recreation center.
Wednesday, county commissioners approved a $460,000 settlement with the child
and her mother - identified only by the pseudonyms Jane and Jenny Doe in a
federal court case - for their pain and humiliation.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11/02/00
GAO: NSC hiding papers on why U.S. supported peace missions
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/0BA915487110F7638625698

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by Pauline Jelenek
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration is withholding information from
investigators on how the United States decided to get involved in four of the
U.N.'s largest peacekeeping operations, the General Accounting Office says.
``This is clearly inappropriate and unacceptable,'' said Henry L. Hinton Jr.,
assistant comptroller of the GAO, Congress' investigative arm.
Investigators say the lack of cooperation by the State Department, Defense
Department and National Security Council since March is holding up a probe
into whether the administration followed guidelines on approving U.S. support
for peacekeeping missions in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Congo and East Timor.



Reuters 11/02/00
Colorado bookstore to fight turning over records
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001102/ts/rights_bookstore_dc_4.html

DENVER (Reuters) - Denver's prestigious Tattered Cover bookstore will fight a
court order to reveal whether a customer bought books about drug making
because to do so would jeopardize others who buy controversial works, the
store's owner said on Thursday.
The case is being closely watched by bookstores nationwide and a host of
groups, including the American Library Association and the Association of
American Publishers, have lined up to support the store.
``We believe that we as booksellers have a responsibility to our customers to
protect their privacy rights with respect to the books that they read,''
owner Joyce Meskis told reporters.
A judge two weeks ago ordered the bookstore to tell the North Metro Task
Force in suburban Denver whether a customer bought two books on operating a
methamphetamine laboratory.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11/02/00
Ala. GOP chides reward offer for Bush record
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/32E67A83F763F9068625698

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by Jamie Kizzire
Scripps Howard News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Local Republicans call a $2,500 reward for information
about Texas Gov. George W. Bush's Alabama military record desperate campaign
tactics.
But local Democrats say the reward shows that Bush's Vietnam War-era military
record is an important election issue, especially since opponent Al Gore
served in Vietnam.
The reward is being offered by a group of local Vietnam veterans, who want
information proving Bush served in Alabama during his stint in the Air
National Guard in the early 1970s. The Associated Press reported during the
summer that authorities have no documents to show Bush performed Guard duty
in Alabama, contradicting Bush's claim that he attended required drills in
Alabama and Texas in 1972 and 1973.



Miami Herald 11/02/00
Luncheon to benefit Black Archives Foundation
http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/ncent/digdocs/088424.htm

The Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida will hold
its 11th annual Charter Day Luncheon at 11 a.m. on Nov. 18 at the Biscayne
Bay Marriott Hotel and Marina, 1633 N. Bayshore Dr.
Leona Cooper Baker, who chairs the luncheon this year, said the event will
celebrate those who have made significant contributions to the community and
also those marking milestones in their lives.
``We must continue to work diligently to preserve our past so that our
children and our children's children will be afforded the rich historical
experiences that are so greatly needed,'' Baker said.





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

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