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RAIN 11/19 : Weekend Update Part 1



Macon Telegraph 11/18/00
FBI's e-mail surveillance claims questioned
http://web.philly.com/content/macon/2000/11/18/nation/1118carnivore.htm

by D. Ian Hopper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The FBI says its e-mail surveillance tool known as Carnivore is
used only for narrow purposes, but recent tests show it could capture all
communications that go through an Internet service, according to bureau
documents.
The documents also reveal the price of Carnivore's precursor, called
Omnivore. A 1997 FBI memo states that the bureau requested more than $2.3
million to develop Omnivore.
Privacy experts worried Friday about the breadth of Carnivore's capability
and questioned why the FBI conducted such a test five months ago if it does
not intend to use the tool in that fashion.
"That really contradicts the explanation that the FBI has provided as to the
purpose of the system and how it works," said David Sobel, general counsel
for the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center.



Lansing State Journal 11/17/00
Ruling: Police can't seal records of complaints
Suit follows attempt to review grievances against LPD officers
http://www.lsjxtra.com/news/COURT1.7.html

by Paul Egan
The Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that says reports
documenting the investigation of citizen complaints against police are public
records.
And the Lansing Police Department may also have to release records related to
police complaints against fellow officers requested by the Lansing State
Journal, a three-judge panel said in a decision released this week.
The public interest in disclosing the records outweighs the interests of the
city and the police union in keeping the records sealed, the decision said.
Dawn Phillips-Hertz, attorney for the Michigan Press Association, said the
decision will benefit the public.
"A civilized society is very dependent upon its law enforcement," she said.
"You don't build confidence by sweeping under the rug bad conduct, because
the rumors still get around."



Australian News Network 11/19/00
ON the trail of missing warriors
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1430489%255E401,00.html

by Walter Mears in Hanoi
UNITED States President Bill Clinton has turned over 350,000 pages of
documents to help Vietnam trace Vietnamese people unaccounted for in the war.

Mr Clinton also praised Vietnam's efforts to track down missing Americans.
"No two nations have ever before done the things that we are doing together
to find the missing from the Vietnam conflict," Clinton said in a speech
yesterday at National University, the major speech of his three-day visit to
Vietnam.
Clinton discussed the matter of 1498 Americans missing in action in separate
meetings with the Vietnamese president and prime minister as well as in his
speech.
More than one million more pages of documents are to be given to Vietnam by
the end of the year to aid the search for details on some 300,000 Vietnamese.
The documents include records from US medical units which treated mortally
wounded Vietnamese and information on where battles took place and on the
number of people reported to have been killed on each side, said Sandy
Berger, Clinton's national security adviser.



Los Angeles Times 11/18/00
Photographer's work documents forgotten lives
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/ocnews/20001118/t000110788.html

Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y.--For decades, photographer Milton Rogovin and his wife Anne
sought out the people they call the "forgotten ones," the hard working,
hard-luck or just plain hardened of society, capturing their faces--their
lives really--with a vintage Rolleiflex camera and black-and-white film.
"I'm not trying to entertain people. I want to let them know that there are
people in this world who are poor and should be paid attention to," says
Rogovin, at 90 as committed as ever to his cause.
Rogovin's "forgotten ones" fill books. "Triptychs," a collection from those
days on Buffalo's lower west side, shows subjects first photographed in the
1970s and revisited in their careworn neighborhood in the 1980s and 1990s.
The gritty "Portraits in Steel" shows Buffalo steelworkers on the job and at
home shortly before the industry's collapse.


CNNSI.com 11/17/00
Opening the'black box'
Documents heded to capital for Brazilian inquiry
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/2000/11/17/brazil_inquiry/

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) promised on
Friday to send, literally, a truckload of documents to Brasilia to help a
Congressional inquiry investigating the country's national sport.
The truck, which will be given an armed escort, will set off from the CBF's
headquarters in Rio de Janeiro for the 1,150 kilometers drive to the capital
as soon as the mass of papers are loaded, the CBF said in a statement.
The CBF said that a list of transfers over the last 10 years -- just one of
the items the commission of inquiry wants to examine -- alone occupies a
space of four cubic meters.
"We have 20 people working just on the preparation of documents which will be
sent to the commission of inquiry," said the statement. "It's a lot of
paper."



Sydney Morning Herald 11/18/00
Military may sell health records database
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0011/18/text/national2.html

by Judith Whelan
Health Writer
The health records of more than 50,000 defence force employees will be stored
on an electronic database that could be sold to research and insurance
companies.
Defence personnel would have no choice about whether their records were
included in the electronic system, just as they had no choice now over
whether they were included in the paper records system.
The Federal and State governments have said they intend to establish similar
systems to cover the general community, although individuals would be able to
choose whether their records were included.
The defence records would be owned by the Commonwealth and, unlike the
unwieldy paper system, the database would be portable and flexible enough to
be of use to research and insurance companies.



Rocky Mountain News 11/18/00
Colorado court records going online
http://insidedenver.com/news/1118onlin.shtml

by Steven K. Paulson
Associated Press
Want to know if your day-care provider has a criminal record?
How about any pending lawsuits against that contractor you want to hire?
A new online system will provide records from the Colorado Judicial Branch,
making the state one of the first in the nation to allow public access to its
statewide court information database.
"After considering the difficult issues of public safety, convenient public
access to information, expense and technology feasibility, we decided to find
a company willing to provide this access without additional cost to the
taxpayers," Supreme Court Justice Alex Martinez said.



The State News 11/16/00
East Lansing voting records sealed, recount closer
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/001117/politics-103

by Jamie Gumbrecht
Michigan State University
(U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Republican Congressman-elect Mike Rogers is
busy picking out an office in Washington, D.C., and electing new leadership
for Congress.
But his opponent for the 8th Congressional District seat, state Sen. Dianne
Byrum, D-Onondaga, is keeping busy with office plans of her own.
Byrum will be asking for a recount, and possibly a revote, after the Nov. 27
certification of the election by the State Board of Canvassers. A recount
could alter the 152-vote difference between the Congress hopefuls, changing
the outcome of the election. In preparation, the East Lansing voting records
were sealed by the Ingham County Board of Canvassers on Tuesday as evidence
for potential court cases.



Denver Post 11/18/00
Company puts court records on the 'Net
http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz1118f.htm

by Anne Colden
Colorado court records became available over the Internet on Friday with the
formal launch of e-InfoData.com, a Boulder company that won a state contract
to provide the information.
For $5 a search or less, depending upon the number of searches conducted in a
month, e-InfoData.com will provide access to court records from most counties
in Colorado through the Web site www.CoCourts.com. The latest status and case
histories of criminal, civil, domestic and traffic cases, among others, will
be included.
The database will be updated more than 100,000 times a day, said Lee Sands,
e-InfoData.com's founder and president. "The real-time data makes this
information very important," he said.





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

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