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RAIN 01/01/01: Weekend Update Part 2



Huntsville Times 12/30/00
Police say documents didn't belong in old HQ
TV reporter acting on tip found records in downtown building
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Dec2000/30-e10377.html

by Wendy Reeves
Huntsville police Maj. Dennis Wooten said Friday the police documents found
Thursday by a local television reporter in the department's old headquarters
downtown should not have been there.
The building, next to City Hall on Fountain Circle, was supposed to be
locked, Wooten said. At least he and other police department heads thought it
was supposed to be.
"There should be no public access to the building," he said, except for the
offices located in the basement.
But, Wooten said, that does not excuse the police records being left there.


The Oklahoman 12/30/00
Court referee mulls release of teen's records
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=613332&pic=none&TP=getarticle

Associated Press
TULSA -- A newspaper's request to open the juvenile records of a man accused
of murdering a 7-year-old girl and raping her 12-year-old friend is in the
hands of a state Supreme Court referee.
Referee Barbara Slimly met with attorneys on Thursday in connection with the
Tulsa World's attempt to obtain the records of Robert Wayne Rotramel, 19, who
is charged with first- degree murder in the killing of Kristi Blevins and
first-degree rape in the attack on her friend on Aug. 19 in Oilton.
The newspaper is contesting rulings by Special District Judge Russell C.
Miller and Associate District Judge April Sellers White and has asked the
state's highest court to assume original jurisdiction and enter a writ of
mandamus against each judge.



Chicago Sun-Times 12/30/00
Did Ryan friend shred key papers?
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/sos30.html

by Steve Warmbir
Federal Courts Reporter
Just a few days before he left his job as a top aide to Gov. Ryan, Dean Bauer
got to work shredding documents, prosecutors alleged Friday.
Bauer, 72, who is accused of covering up wrongdoing, may have destroyed
behind the closed doors of his office hundreds of missing pages of reports by
Tammy Raynor, a whistleblower in the bribes-for-licenses scandal, prosecutors
said Friday.


The Decatur Daily 12/27/00
Alabama artifacts
Archives and History to celebrate 100 years
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/001227/archives.shtml

by Clay Redden
MONTGOMERY -- The caretaker of Alabama's history is about to make history.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History, the official repository of
state records and artifacts, will turn 100 in March, and preparations are
under way to celebrate the centennial.
"We plan to open up the building on March 3 to people who want to come in and
see behind the scenes and see special material from the collection they
wouldn't normally see," said Edwin Bridges, director of archives and history.
"The real interesting thing is to look into some of the storage areas and see
how boxes and cabinets of things are kept, such as scrapbooks, old
photographs. Every box you open has a different story."



San Francisco Chronicle 12/30/00
Wrong MDs got patient records
Psychiatric privacy violated
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/30/M

NW177137.DTL

by Janet Wells
Health Net violated patient confidentiality for 12,000 members being treated
for depression and anxiety by accidentally sending their names to the wrong
doctors, a spokesman for the state's third-largest health insurer
acknowledged yesterday.
Health Net, a Southern California company that insures almost 2.2 million
Californians, blamed the mid-December e-mail mistake on a computer
programming error that failed to match patient names with the correct doctor.



Des Moines Register 12/30/00
Delay in filing reports puts recorder's job in jeopardy
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/13366900.html

by Emily Graham
Clarke County officials have threatened to fire county recorder Judy Querrey
over paperwork delays in her office.
The supervisors gave Querrey, who was paid $28,929 this year, until Jan. 10
to file several year-end reports with state and county agencies.
"We let it go as long as we could," said Dennis Chaney, chairman of the board
of supervisors.



Charlotte Observer 12/30/00
The quest for electronic paper
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/business/pub/epaper1230.htm

by Justin Pope
Associated Press
Russ Wilcox tells the colorful tale behind E Ink Corp. with the ease of
someone who's done it a thousand times.
It goes like this: Joseph Jacobson was sitting on a beach in California a few
years ago, finishing up a book. Wouldn't it be nice, the MIT physicist mused,
to have another one handy? Or better yet, what if the book in his hands could
magically fill itself up with the words of a new one? Atop that seemingly
random thought Jacobson and two of his students created a company.



The Independent 12/30/00
Secret Society
http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Leading_articles/2000-12/leaderc301200.s

html

We only have to wait until Monday to find out what Harold Wilson and Ted
Heath were up to in 1970, with the release of Cabinet papers and other
confidential material under the 30-year rule.


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

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