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RAIN 12/17: Weekend Update Part 2



South Bend Tribune 12/16/00
N.D. sociologist accesses information on race riots from archives
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/thisday/local.20001216-sbt-FULL-A1-N_

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by Ken Bradford
Dan Myers is amazed at his good fortune.
Information is the crude oil of academic research. It provides the fuel for 
new ideas and knocks the rust off old ones.
And Myers, a sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame, is sitting 
on a geyser of material that had been whispered about among researchers in 
his field.
Myers, almost by accident, controls the archives from the Lemberg Center for 
the Study of Violence, formerly at Brandeis University. 



The Age 12/16/00
Melbourne Tullamarine rail link documents to go on display
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0012/16/A5745-2000Dec16.shtml

AAP
A series of key impact reports on the proposed $300 million rail link between 
central Melbourne and Tullamarine Airport will be on public display from 
February. 
The 13 reports will cover issues including noise, safety and social impact. 
Plans are expected to include lengthy underground sections of track and an an 
underground station at the airport. 



Rutland Herald 12/16/00
Documents denied in Danforth case
http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/AtAGlance/Story/17073.html

by Tracy Schmaler 
MONTPELIER - A former Vermont State Police officer will not be able to use 
confidential records to try to prove her claims of discrimination against the 
Department of Public Safety, according to a decision by the Vermont Labor 
Relations Board. 
Citing concerns over privacy and relevance, the Labor Relations Board 
declined to release internal affairs documents relating to two other State 
Police officers to Gloria Danforth. 
Danforth, a former detective sergeant, was seeking access to documents 
involving possible internal affairs investigations of Lt. Dennis Madore, the 
former head of Gov. Howard Dean's security detail, and Lt. Bruce Lang. 



Fort Myers News-Press 12/16/00
FGCU to house Koreshan papers
http://www.news-press.com/news/today/001216koreshan.html

by Alison Gerber
Florida Gulf Coast University will keep thousands of documents detailing the 
history of the Koreshan commune carved out of Estero wildlands more than 100 
years ago. 
Under an agreement signed this month by FGCU and the Koreshan Unity 
Foundation, the documents will be catalogued and stored in an archive section 
of the planned $18 million expansion of the school's library. 
The expansion won't be complete until 2003. 
But Irv Solomon, a history professor who spearheaded the agreement, said he 
will begin working on the cataloguing with students next semester. 



Canton Repository 12/16/00
Agency to improve training, travel records
http://www.cantonrep.com/newstemplate_main.php?ID=48985&r=7

by Ed Balint
CANTON - The Stark County Department of Job and Family Services will use a 
central database and new forms to keep better track of its travel and 
training needs. 
County commissioners, who have been overwhelmed by the amount of travel in 
the department, recently asked the department for information about employee 
travel and training. 
Job and Family Services recently answered the request. 
Job and Family officials met with Commissioner Jane Vignos last week to 
discuss the matter. 
So the department and commissioners can easily retrieve information about 
training, a database will track all training for all employees in the 
Children Services, Child Support and Income Maintenance, and Job Training 
divisions. It should be operational in January. 



Trenton Times 12/16/00
Senate eyes records access
<http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/news/times/12-16-2PRCFSYC.html

by Michael Jennings
TRENTON -- After months of wrangling, the Senate will decide on Monday 
whether to significantly increase public access to government records. 
Though he failed to resolve the differences between Attorney General John 
Farmer and the New Jersey Press Association, Senate President Donald 
DiFrancesco, R-Scotch Plains, has scheduled a Monday vote on the bill that 
would update the state's public records law. That measure, enacted in 1963, 
is widely regarded as the nation's weakest. 
The bill has been greatly revised since the Assembly unanimously passed it in 
June. DiFrancesco and the bill's primary sponsor, Sen. Robert Martin, 
R-Morris Plains, have added provisions to address the concerns voiced by a 
host of groups. 



Huntsville Times 12/16/00
Retiring probate judge scolds commission
Riddick says delay of computer system denies him his 'last hurrah'
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Dec2000/16-e1943.html

by Steve Doyle
Retiring Madison County Probate Judge Frank Riddick scolded county 
commissioners Friday for denying him his "last hurrah" - a $473,000 computer 
system to speed up the tedious task of recording property deeds and marriage 
licenses. 
Riddick said he's traveled as far as Kentucky to check out machines. He's had 
vendors haul their equipment to Huntsville for tests. He even found a way to 
pay for it: a $4 fee tacked onto most documents recorded by the probate 
judge's office. 
Since he did all the legwork, Riddick said, the system should be installed 
under his watch. He retires Jan. 16



Spokane Spokesman-Review 12/10/00
Color dots help control paper chase
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=121000&ID=s891783

by Beverly Smith Vorpahl
Spokane _ Mary E. Vassel Hill, an accredited genealogist, has developed a 
color-coded filing system to help those of us who get inundated with pieces 
of paper, all accumulated in the noble name of research. 
Hill's plan is set forth in "Family Roots Organizer," for Video Training 
Series, produced by 123 Genealogy of Hurricane, Utah. 
She delivers the material in the manner of the college professor she is. Hill 
has taught this method to students of family history and genealogical 
research as an instructor at Brigham Young University; at seminars and 
classes; and teaches it now at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, 
where she's on staff. 
Watching the two videos is like attending a seminar, seated in the front row 
with an unobstructed view of Hill as the keynote speaker. 



Pioneer-Planet 12/16/00
Unable to protect own data, government in no position to demand privacy rules
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/opinion/docs/037102.htm

by Sonia Arrison
By all accounts, privacy will be a top issue when Congress reconvenes. But 
before eager legislators pass new rules, they need to fix government's many 
privacy problems, beginning with Carnivore, the FBI's Internet wiretapping 
system. 
Carnivore has the ability to intercept and access e-mail and other electronic 
communications. Through a box that the FBI installs on the network operation 
centers of an internet service provider (ISP), Carnivore can chew through any 
message in the ISP's network. But the FBI claims to look at messages sent or 
received only from criminal suspects after obtaining a warrant. 



Mobile Register 12/14/00
International vital records book out
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Dec2000/14-a409326a.html

"The International Vital Records Handbook, Fourth Edition" by Thomas Jay Kemp 
offers a complete, up-to-date collection of vital record application forms 
from each of the states and from nations throughout the world. 
As applications for vital records vary from state to state and country to 
country, Kemp has gathered copies of all the currently available applications 
and formulated this one-volume guide. This provides the necessary forms and 
ordering information for the vital records you will need for such records as 
driver's licenses, passports, jobs, social security, proof of identity, etc. 



Associated Press 12/16/00
Olympic bribery case files released
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001216/sp/oly_bribery_files_1.html

by Paul Foy
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Nearly 10,000 pages of confidential files in the 
Olympic vote-buying scandal reveal Salt Lake's now-indicted bid executives 
might have taken a page from organizers of the Nagano Games. 
The files organized A-Z by International Olympic Committee (news - web sites) 
delegates were released to The Associated Press on Saturday by the Salt Lake 
Organizing Committee. 
They show Tom Welch, the bid chief, and Dave Johnson, his deputy, chased 
their Olympic dream by doing everything from consulting fortune tellers to 
rushing emergency cash to IOC members' wives. 
The documents include new allegations Japan paid $100,000 per vote when 
Nagano won the 1998 Winter Games over Salt Lake City, which was widely 
recognized as having the better technical bid. 



Boston Globe 12/16/00
Former officer won't get secret police papers
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/351/region/Former_officer_won_t_get_secre:.sht

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Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) The Vermont State Police can keep documents detailing 
internal affairs investigations of two officers secret, the state Labor 
Relations Board has ruled. 
The board ruled Friday that former Detective Sgt. Gloria Danforth will not be 
able to use the documents to try to prove her contention that she was fired 
for alleged misdeeds, while the two male officers were retained despite more 
serious offenses. 
Danforth was seeking access to documents involving possible internal affairs 
investigations of Lt. Dennis Madore, the former head of Gov. Howard Dean's 
security detail, and Lt. Bruce Lang. 



Asbury Park Press 12/16/00
Access bill in for a battle
http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,330740,00.html

Gannett State Bureau
TRENTON -- After days of strained negotiations, a new Senate proposal that 
would make it easier for the public to gain access to government documents is 
acceptable to a number of parties in the protracted dispute, but not to 
prosecutors who worry that investigation files will be made public. 
Senate President Donald T. DiFrancesco, R-Union, whose office worked on the 
proposal, said the bill attempts to address concerns raised by media and 
good-government advocates who want to change New Jersey's notoriously weak 
1963 public records law. 



Editor & Publisher Online 12/11/00
Florida Sunshine gets the vote
State's public-access laws are lauded by editors
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/121100n5.htm

by Joe Strupp
Florida's sunshine laws - among the best public-access statutes in the 
country - have been key tools for reporters covering the ongoing presidential 
recount story there, according to veteran journalists. Many of those involved 
in the coverage said reporters are getting easier access to voting records, 
court proceedings, and public information than they would in most other 
states. 
"Most states ought to be as open as Florida," said Leonard Downie Jr., 
executive editor of The Washington Post. "If this were taking place in the 
District of Columbia or Virginia, there would be a lot more unanswered 
questions." 



Halifax Herald Limited 12/16/00
Insurers win right to see abuse-claim documents
Justice Dept. must reveal memos, minutes, notes, judge decides
http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaystory?2000/12/16+169.raw+NovaScoti

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by Sherri Borden
The Justice Department must hand over to its insurers confidential documents 
relating to a $56-million compensation program it set up for people who claim 
they were abused in provincial youth institutions, a judge has ruled. 
The program, created in 1996 to settle abuse claims out of court, has paid 
1,243 former residents about $39 million in compensation and therapy costs. 
The province is suing seven insurance companies to recover monies paid out 
through the program. 



Las Vegas Review-Journal 12/16/00
Signatures focus of prevailing wage hearing
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2000/Dec-16-Sat-2000/business/15048680.html

by A. D. Hopkins
A handwriting expert testified that signatures on 10 disputed documents used 
to set prevailing wages are indeed those of a man who can't remember signing 
them. 
Others testified the documents were presented to him while he was under heavy 
medication following serious surgery. 
That testimony emerged Friday when Nevada Labor Commissioner Terry Johnson 
conducted a three-hour hearing to settle a controversy over the prevailing 
wages he announced in October. Nevada law requires that contractors on public 
works pay at least the wage that "prevails" in a county, but the labor 
commissioner must determine through a survey what that wage is for each 
craft. 



Electronic Telegraph 12/17/00
Computer errors give thousands criminal records
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=0x0ebKsq&atmo=0x0ebKsq&p

g=/et/00/12/17/ncrim17.html

by David Hamber
Home Affairs Correspondent
THOUSANDS of innocent people will be wrongly branded as criminals when police 
records are released to the public for the first time next year because of 
"significant inaccuracies" in force files. 
Elizabeth France, the Data Protection Registrar, has warned Jack Straw, the 
Home Secretary, that a large number of new certificates to be issued by the 
Criminal Records Bureau could contain false information. 
The certificates will be issued from next June, when individuals will be able 
to buy copies of their own criminal records at a cost of about £10. Employers 
in sensitive areas such as childcare and teaching can demand to see the 
certificates before taking on an applicant. 




Bangkok Post 12/17/00
Bail records on computer
http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/171200_News05.html

City police stations have been told to keep computer records of government 
officials who use their positions to guarantee bail for suspects.



Nando Times 12/16/00
Massive files released in SLOC bribery case
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500290809-500460974-503062792-0,00.

html

Paul Foy
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (December 16, 2000 7:56 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - 
Nearly 10,000 pages of confidential files in the Olympic vote-buying scandal 
reveal Salt Lake's now-indicted bid executives might have taken a page from 
organizers of the Nagano Games. 
The files organized A-Z by International Olympic Committee delegates were 
released to The Associated Press on Saturday by the Salt Lake Organizing 
Committee. 



Modesto Bee 12/16/00
History of black LA officers depicted in calendar
http://www.modbee.com/state/story/n349.html

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Old photos found in the Los Angeles Police Department's 
archives have been put into a calendar highlighting 114 years of service by 
African American officers. 
It was three years ago when Sgt. John Thomas, who was hired as an aide to 
Chief Bernard C. Parks, was asked to search the archives for photos to 
decorate his boss' office. 
But he didn't stop there. 





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

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