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Editor & Publisher Online 01/03/01
Putting online newspapers' archives up front
Indianapolis Star tries a different approach
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/010301n6.htm

by David Noack
Michael Jesse has decided to add a little editorial spark to his newspaper's
online archives.
Jesse, library director at The Indianapolis Star, has created a new Web site
that provides readers with free background information about high-profile
news stories, issues, and personalities, while hopefully driving traffic to
the newspaper's paid archive database.



Vanguard Daily 01/03/01
Trovan, Records of 350 CSM patients vanish
http://allafrica.com/stories/200101030031.html

by Yinka Olusanya & Lawrence Ndukwe
Kano
The records of at least 350 CSM patients, who were treated at the Infectious
Diseases Hospital (IDH), Kano, between April and June 1996, have disappeared
from the hospital, according to a report yesterday.
Sources said the hospital conducted a major clean-up exercise at the records
office, where such cards were being kept, barely a week after the story on
the Pfizer saga was reported by the press.


ABC News 01/03/01
Secret Baltimore police office burglarized, internal files missing
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010103_786.html

Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) _ The Police Department"s campaign to weed out corrupt
officers has been compromised by a burglary at a secret police internal
affairs office outside the city. Computer equipment was destroyed and
internal affairs files apparently were stolen during the Christmas Eve
burglary in the suburban Middle River area of Baltimore County, officials
said.


Austin American-Statesman 01/03/01
Delete key sought for old arrest files on Web
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/wednesday/news_2.html

by Andrea Ball
That DWI charge, that robbery arrest, that jaywalking incident -- all can be
erased.
Each year, thousands of people have criminal charges removed from their
records, providing a court-approved fresh start to their lives. All documents
are destroyed so nobody -- not a boss, a college dean or a suspicious
father-in-law -- has to know.
At least, that's how it's supposed to work.



Baltimore Sun 01/03/01
Police secret office ransacked for files
Departmental probes of internal corruption possibly breached
http://www.sunspot.net/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename=s

tory&storyid=1150520221771

by Peter Hermann
A Christmas Eve burglary and ransacking of a secret Baltimore police Internal
Affairs office has top department officials worried that sensitive
investigations involving police misconduct were compromised.
Sources said that several files were rifled, including one involving Officer
Brian L. Sewell, who was charged in October with falsely arresting a man on
drug charges after an undercover sting run by detectives working out of the
office. His trial is pending.



Worcester Telegram & Gazette 01/03/01
Grant will help clerk document city history
http://www.telegram.com/news/final/diary31.html

The grant is for only $6,754.
But given what city officials can do with the money, it might be more
meaningful in the long-run than all the millions of dollars garnered from the
state and federal governments for Worcester's big-ticket downtown development
projects.
Secretary of State William J. Galvin recently awarded the grant to City Clerk
David J. Rushford's office to inventory historical documents sitting in the
bowels of City Hall.



Chicago Tribune 01/03/01
Fraudulent e-mails net pair 2 years in prison
http://sns.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-internetfraud.story?coll=sn

s%2Dnewsnation%2Dheadlines

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Two men received two-year prison terms for sending a blizzard
of 50 million e-mails as part of a scam that overwhelmed the nation's largest
Internet providers.



Cape Gazette 01/03/01
Delaware State Archives releases online photography exhibit
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/archives122900.html

The Delaware Public Archives has announced the release of its first online
exhibit, called Captured In Time. Being a cooperative effort, involving
volunteers, archives staff and the Delaware Government Information Center,
the project features a sampling of the 500,000 photographs preserved at the
Delaware Public Archives. The exhibit can be accessed through the Archives'
Web site, www.archives.lib.de.us.



The Sun Sentinel 01/03/01
State documents numerous errors by bounty hunters who seize tags from
uninsured cars
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000153058,00.html

by Mark Hollis
TALLAHASSEE -- A state program that pays "recovery agents" in Broward,
Miami-Dade and Hillsborough counties to seize license plates from uninsured
vehicles should be abolished, say government auditors who report thousands of
license plates have been improperly removed from insured vehicles.
A new audit of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles' license
plate seizure program found that 34.8 percent -- more than one of every three
tags that agents stripped from cars -- were taken wrongly because the
vehicles were properly insured. State officials put most of the blame on
insurance companies, saying they don't provide up-to-date information.



BBC News 01/03/01
Tories warn of 'council secrecy'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1099000/1099004.stm

A series of new regulations will create a "culture of secrecy" in local
government, Conservative environment spokesman Archie Norman has warned.
Mr Norman said under a new law - due to come into force next week - public
and press access to documents about meetings of new cabinet-style council
administrations will be restricted.
"Labour are increasing secrecy in local government, shutting out the press
and public from the council chamber," he said.



New York Times 01/03/01
Yahoo to try harder to rid postings of hateful material
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/03/technology/03YAHO.html

by Lisa Guernsey
After months of pressure from human rights groups like the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, Yahoo said yesterday that it would try more actively to keep hateful
and violent material out of its auctions, classified sections and shopping
areas.
The program, which will employ human reviewers and software, signals a shift
in Yahoo's approach. Previously, the company did not actively monitor what
was posted on its site, and it removed material that was deemed inappropriate
or in violation of its policies only after such a posting was brought to its
attention by users or watchdog groups.



New York Times 01/03/01
Advocates of people with disabilities take online stores to task
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/technology/01ECOMMERCE.html?pagewanted=all

by Bob Tedeschi
Just before Christmas, when the federal government committed itself to making
its Web sites fully accessible to people with disabilities, it raised an
issue that has been ignored by many e-commerce sites. Namely, to what extent
should Internet stores mirror their bricks-and-mortar counterparts?
While the Americans With Disabilities Act compels physical stores to make
themselves reasonably accessible to disabled people, courts have not said
conclusively whether the law applies to online stores. In the meantime, many
e-commerce executives say they have only recently become aware of the needs
of the disabled, and have begun to address the situation in a way that will
not heap even more economic stress on their companies.



Huntsville Times 01/03/01
Investigation into documents ongoing: police
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Jan2001/3-e10652.html

from staff reports
The Huntsville Police Department is still investigating why documents were
left in the old police headquarters downtown.
The department also has not decided whether the city will file misdemeanor
charges against a TV reporter who removed some of the paperwork from the
building.



Yahoo.com 01/03/01
Kohl spy tapes won't be published for time being
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010103/wl/germany_stasi_dc_1.html

Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - The government agency overseeing East German Stasi spy
files said Wednesday it would await a court judgement this summer before
deciding whether to publish their records on former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
The Berlin-based Gauck agency had wanted to publish early this year
transcripts of Kohl's telephone conversations made by eavesdropping Stasi
agents during his 16-year term in office but Kohl's lawyers sought an
injunction against the move.



Kentucky Post 01/03/01
Judge rules area lawyer in contempt
http://www.kypost.com/news/lawyer010301.html

by John C.K. Fisher
A federal judge has upheld his earlier ruling that found a Cincinnati lawyer
in civil and criminal contempt for failing to produce documents in a
Covington trial.
U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman refused to reconsider his order
from March that found Eric C. Holzapfel in civil and criminal contempt for
failing to produce records from Raymond James & Associates, a Florida-based
financing company that was ordered to pay $40 million to Corporex Cos. of
Covington for a failed loan agreement.



The Advocate 01/03/01
Women's chronicle published
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=18436

by Tom Guarisco
Hannah Stephens of Concord, Mass., wrote a letter to Congress pleading for
help in releasing her husband, Isaac, who was captured by pirates.
The elegantly penned letter tells of her husband's military service, his
capture, and how she and her children lost their home because they had no
money to make loan payments.
"Your memorialist has been turned out of doors and driven to the cruel
necessity of doing the lowest duties of a servant to prevent herself and her
helpless children from suffering hunger and nakedness," Stephens wrote.
The letter was sworn to by a justice of the peace and her pastor, and was
dated Dec. 9, 1791.





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

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