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RAIN 01/07 Weekend Update Part 2: Louisville Archives Disaster



Honolulu Advertiser 01/06/01
Critics want repeal of medical-records privacy law
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/16localnews18.html

by Curtis Lum
A state law designed to protect the privacy of medical records is confusing, 
costly and should be repealed, according to a majority of those who testified 
at a Senate hearing yesterday. 
The Senate's Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing held the 
first in a series of public meetings in a packed conference room yesterday at 
the State Capitol. About 20 people testified. 




Las Vegas Review-Journal 01/06/01
County turns over some cellular phone records
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Jan-06-Sat-2001/news/15177246.html

by A.D. Hopkins
Clark County on Friday turned over some of the cell phone records won by the 
Las Vegas Review-Journal in a three-year fight that reached the Nevada 
Supreme Court. 
But some records are still missing. 
The records were sought for an investigation into the influence of lobbyists 
over county commissioners. They show telephone numbers called on, and also 
the numbers of telephones that called, cellular phones provided at taxpayer 
expense to county commissioners and other county officials. 



The Courier Journal 01/06/01
No records lost to break in water main
City archives' cleanup cost undetermined
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/01/06/ky_arch.html

by Sheldon S. Shafer
Damage to Louisville's archives caused by a Dec. 27 water-main break is still 
being assessed, but "no records were lost, not a single one," Mayor Dave 
Armstrong said yesterday. 
Armstrong did say the accident has prompted the city to review how it stores 
its historical documents "to ensure that we don't take any chances on losing 
anything that has significance to the history of our city." 
Armstrong updated reporters yesterday on the recovery effort. 
He said the cost of restoring damaged records and cleaning up city-owned 
Memorial Auditorium, where they are stored, isn't known; some of the cost may 
be covered by insurance. 



The Courier Journal 12/28/00
Water-main break damages thousands of Louisville records
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0012/28/ky_flud.html

by Butch John
Tens of thousands of city records were damaged yesterday and thousands of 
others will be destroyed because a wall of water from a broken main poured 
into the Memorial Auditorium basement where they are kept. 
More than a foot of water stood in some areas, soaking records that had been 
placed on shelves and wooden pallets after previous -- but less severe -- 
floods. 
No one was injured in the incident, which happened about 11:15 a.m. while 
Louisville Water Co. employees were working in the street outside. 



The Courier Journal 12/29/00
Workers dry historical documents after flood
Most important records ready to be stored
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0012/29/ky_flood.html

by Chris Poynter
The Memorial Auditorium stage is usually reserved for actors and musicians. 
Yesterday, thousands of historical documents were drying there after a 
water-main break Wednesday flooded the auditorium's basement, home to 
Louisville city archives. 
Bound volumes of property records and land plats from earlier this century 
sat next to original copies of city ordinances from the 1800s. Old photos, 
maps, newspaper clippings and minutes from city government meetings -- in the 
elaborate penmanship of years past -- were damaged but not destroyed, said 
Sharon Receveur, the former curator who volunteered her time yesterday to 
make sure the records were handled properly. 



The Courier Journal 12/29/99
Louisville couple found the treasure
Last-minute bid of $1525 won Internet auction
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/1999/9912/26/991226pen.html

by Rochelle Riley
In October, local historians Pen and Brenda Bogert were searching the 
Internet for old Louisville postcards to add to their growing collection. 
Suddenly, Brenda saw a listing on the eBay auction site: "Black architecture 
photos, Louisville, Kentucky." 
"As soon as I saw it, I thought, 'The only black architect from Louisville is 
Samuel Plato. What the heck is this?' " Brenda said. "I said, 'Pen, look at 
this!' " 



The Courier Journal 12/26/99
Architect's papers come home
Prominent builder paved way for blacks
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/1999/9912/26/991226sam.html

by Rochelle Riley
He was among the few black contractors to build barracks for soldiers in 
training during World War II. 
He was the first black architect to win a federal post office contract. 
And six buildings he designed are on the National Register of Historic Places 
-- with others in historic districts. 
Samuel M. Plato, grandson of a slave, was among the most productive and 
respected contractors in the region. He spent more than 40 years designing 
and building offices, schools, residences, churches and post offices in 11 
states. 



Atlanta Journal Constitution 01/06/01
Emptying presidential files takes more than a few boxes
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/saturday/news_a3656c

76154d42630097.html

by Bob Deans
Washington --- With moving day fast approaching, Democratic aides in the 
Clinton White House are filling cardboard boxes with an estimated 76.8 
million pages of documents, transcripts, executive orders, margin-scribbled 
memos, coffee-stained meeting notes and other correspondence. 
Others are packing up 1.9 million photographs and 75,000 knickknacks and 
artifacts from administration travels and guests. 



UPI 01/06/01
Report: INS told workers to destroy Elian files
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=150035

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- An attorney says Immigration and 
Naturalization Service employees in Miami were ordered to destroy or conceal 
documents and electronic mail related to the Elian Gonzalez case, a Florida 
newspaper reported Saturday. The Sun-Sentinel said labor attorney Donald 
Appignani testified in a deposition that INS employees told him "the U.S. 
government could be breaking the law." He did not identify the employees, 
saying that they fear reprisals by the INS and the U.S. Justice Department. 
"People were instructed to remove anything derogatory to the Elian Gonzalez 
case," Appignani said in the deposition, which was taken last month for a 
lawsuit filed against the U.S. government by the Cuban boy's Miami relatives



Sun-Sentinel 01/06/01
Lawyer: INS ordered Elian files destroyed
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000155151,00.html

by David Cazares
Miami employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service were ordered to 
destroy or conceal documents and electronic mail related to the Elián 
González case, according to a deposition by an attorney who represents INS 
workers.
In a deposition given last month for the federal lawsuit that Elián's Miami 
relatives have filed against the U.S. government, Coral Springs attorney 
Donald Appignani testified that INS employees had told him that "the U.S. 
government could be breaking the law."



CNN.com 01/05/01
Archive materials for Clinton Library being compiled for shipment
http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/05/clinton.archive.mate/index.h

tml

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Materials from President Clinton's administration Friday 
were loaded and readied for shipment to Little Rock, Arkansas, the site of 
the eventual Clinton presidential library. 
Everything from gifts given to the president by international dignitaries to 
files of staff members can be found in what is being called the biggest move 
of presidential records in U.S. history. 
Boxes of materials were loaded Friday onto two trucks at the National 
Archives Building in Washington and then taken to Andrews Air Force Base to 
be loaded on a C-5 cargo plane. 



Sacramento Bee 01/06/01
DMV targeting identity thieves: Steps take longer but worth it, chief says
http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert02_20010106.html

by Matthew Barrows
For years, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has been the first 
stop for anyone looking for a fake identity. 
Armed with little more than another person's name and address, criminals 
stood in line at the DMV, fed employees a story of how their driver's license 
was misplaced, handed over $12 and received a new lease on life: a driver's 
license with their picture on it, but someone else's name. 
"The problem was that the DMV was not verifying the identity on a consistent 
basis," said Linda Foley, director of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource 
Center in San Diego. "And that made it very easy to steal someone's 
identity." 



Los Angeles Times 01/06/01
Consultant in Contempt for LAPD Leak
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010106/t000001535.html

by David Rosenzweig
A legal consultant who defied a judge's protective order and leaked 
confidential LAPD personnel records to a television reporter was found in 
criminal contempt Friday by a Los Angeles federal judge. 
"You can't cherry-pick the American system of justice," said U.S. District 
Judge William Keller, shaking his finger at self-described whistle-blower 
Robert Mullally. 
Mullally, 57, of Scottsdale, Ariz., faces as much as six months in prison 
when he is sentenced March 27. 
He admitted leaking the records to former KCBS-TV investigative reporter 
Harvey Levin for a 1997 expose that accused the LAPD of ignoring domestic 
violence complaints against its own officers. 



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/04/01
Elevator, manager plead innocent to conspiracy
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/StateRegion/D6C3BF4C859B69EB8625

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Associated Press
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- The former manager of the Nekoma Farmers 
Cooperative Elevator pleaded innocent Thursday to charges stemming from an 
alleged conspiracy to defraud federal crop insurance programs.
The same plea also was entered on behalf of the elevator organization, which 
is charged in the alleged scheme, Assistant U.S. Attorney Janice Morley said.
Michael J. Leonard of Nekoma is accused of telling elevator employees to 
falsify scale tickets and assembly sheets for durum wheat purchased during 
the 1999 crop year.





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

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