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RAIN 01/23: DRP, wheelie bins, $32,500



US News 01/22/01
Faking keepsakes from a tragic time
Holocaust artifacts compete with counterfeits
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010122/holocaust.htm

by Margaret Mannix
Lisa Moellering knew too well the faded yellow Star of David and the dingy
ghetto armbands that made their way to her office recently. Such chilling
reminders of the Nazi genocide of the Jews are her sad stock in trade as an
archivist at the Holocaust Museum Houston. Moellering knew the four World War
II-era artifacts-purchased by a benefactor at a flea market-would be welcome
additions to the museum's growing collection. Except for one thing: They were
all fakes.



Sydney Morning Herald 01/22/01 (thanks to Susan Frost from down under )
http://smh.com.au/news/0101/21/national/national4a.html

by Eamonn Duff and Holly Byrnes
Hundreds of highly confidential files have been found dumped after a leading
property investment company discarded them near a bustling Sydney shopping
strip.
The documents were found in a wheelie bin near Military Road, Neutral Bay,
and contained active credit card details, tax file numbers, bank statements
and wage slips.


(The following article presents an interesting viewpoint of retention )

Miami Herald 01/22/01
Creating a DRP now can save court headaches later
http://www.miamiherald.com/content/archive/business/columnists/techlaw/digdocs

/091818.htm

by Mark Grossman
Seemingly innocuous documents can haunt your company in a courtroom. The best
defense is destroying documents. If you do it right, you're legal and safe.
If you get it wrong, you may find a judge accusing you of destroying relevant
evidence. The answer is a well-formulated document retention policy (DRP).
While I admit that nobody will ever win a business leadership and vision
award from the Chamber of Commerce for giving time and attention to the
development of a DRP, you need to do it. It's like sleep. You may not feel
like it's productive time, but you shouldn't try to live without it.



Bismarck Tribune 01/22/01
Bill would help open up records
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/tribwebpage/news/jan2001/122200162206.html

by Tony Spilde
Teachers in North Dakota aren't told if one of their students is a killer.
Or a rapist. Or who's stolen a gun.
They are told who was caught drinking a beer or smoking a cigarette, but
don't know if a juvenile has a history of assaulting authority figures.
Under state law, authorities cannot share juvenile records or files with
school officials. An exception is made for certain alcohol- or drug-related
offenses, but no other crimes, according to Larry Klundt, executive director
of the North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders. And a federal law
disallows schools from sharing records with law enforcement.



Fresno Bee 01/22/01
Photographs of Valley history and culture
http://www.fresnobee.com/localnews/story/0,1724,232141,00.html

Fresno Bee readers can discover pieces of local history through fresnobee.com
beginning today.
By logging on to fresnobee.com, readers can view historical photographs
covering sports, landmarks and culture, complete with caption information.
The photographs can be purchased in different sizes.



Houston Chronicle 01/22/01
Medical leaders ask for closure of privacy loophole
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/801855

by Todd Ackerman
Texas medical leaders and politicians are asking the state Legislature to
close a loophole in federal regulations that allows patients' records to be
shared with marketers.
The exemption could mean that, for example, a pregnant woman might receive
promotional mailers about infant health-care products, or that patients
treated for sexually transmitted diseases might receive telemarketing calls
offering condoms or new medicines.



Shorelines 01/22/01
Neptune's federal subpoena scare settles down
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/012001/nes_5165004.shtml

by Beau Halton
Nothing like a federal subpoena to make a city anxious.
When the U.S. Department of Justice served Neptune Beach with a subpoena in
March, it seemed everyone in the lovable little hamlet started asking each
other what this was all about.



Shorelines 01/22/01
$32,500 bill from federal investigation
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/012001/nes_5165291.shtml

by Caren Burmeister
NEPTUNE BEACH -- The city, so strapped for money it's using savings to meet
its budget, has paid about $32,500 in copying and legal fees to comply with a
federal investigation of its wastewater treatment plant.
The U.S. Department of Justice probe recently ended with the indictment of
the city's former treatment plant operator.
Raymond Layne was charged Dec. 6 with violating the federal Clean Water Act.
The indictment accuses him of falsifying monthly monitoring reports on
chlorine levels and the amount of wastewater discharged into the St. Johns
River.



Miami Herald 01/22/01
2,000 Floridians voted illegally Nov. 7
http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/digdocs/102736.htm

by Manny Garcia and Tom Dubocq
Ninety-year-old Cora Thigpen voted twice in the presidential election -- and
would have liked to have voted more.
``If I had voted a half dozen times, I would have voted every time for Al
Gore,'' the North Florida resident said.
Joseph Bonner, 21, voted just once -- and he's sorry he did. With a felony
drug conviction, the Gulf Coast resident man was prohibited by state law from
casting a ballot.



Modesto Bee 01/22/01
Photo collection in good hands
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,232234,00.html

by Alejandra Navarro
TURLOCK -- With his arms stretched out, Manuel Dias described how he jumped,
with three cameras strapped around his neck, from a tugboat to the Portuguese
sailing ship The Sagres as it moved into San Francisco Bay.
Holding his dramatic pose, he looked into the camera aimed at him, and asked
student photographer Lana Fahoum, "Did you get that?"



Daily Oklahoman 01/22/01
OU Professor files suit seeking records in dean search
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=627459&pic=none&TP=getarticle

Associated Press
NORMAN - An associate professor of journalism at the University of Oklahoma
filed a lawsuit Monday asking to see records in the search for a dean for the
new Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Professor Bill Loving filed the lawsuit in Cleveland County District Court
and named OU President David Boren as the defendant.



Omaha World-Herald 01/22/01
Homestead Monument staff plans for accessible records
http://new.omaha.com/index.atp?u_div=3&u_hdg=0&u_sid=60093

by Todd van Kampen
Beatrice, Neb. - Ever wondered which piece of free land your ancestors got
when they came over from the old country?
Staff members at Homestead National Monument can't help answer that question
yet. But a two-day symposium set for June 20 and 21 will teach researchers
and family-tree types about the value of U.S. homestead records that the
monument near Beatrice expects to offer in the future, said staff historian
Todd Arrington.



Orange County Register 01/22/01
Technology keeps alive evidence of hate's legacy
http://www.ocregister.com/business/dotcomment00122cci.shtml

by Chris Farnsworth
When I was in high school, my history teacher sat us down, told us to shut
up, and without another word, switched on a movie projector.
There was no sound. While the projector whirred, we saw the unedited images
taken by the Allied forces as they liberated the Nazi concentration camps.
I couldn't tell you who I sat next to, or the score I got on my final exam,
but I can still recall the grainy, black-and-white shot of so many skeletal
corpses, stacked in rows like crops from some obscene harvest.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/22/01
To protect computerized documents from power blackouts, store them on
Internet, says UC Berkeley Researcher
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/StateRegion/B07F38FAC34EBD2F8625

69DC0072EAC5?OpenDocument

Ascribe News
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 22 (AScribe News) -- For those who worry that
California's rolling blackouts will wipe out their bank statements and other
computerized records, a computer scientist at the University of California,
Berkeley, is designing a solution: A data storage system so vast and powerful
it will encompass the entire Earth.



Sacramento Bee 01/22/01
Newspaper wins round in battle for access to records
http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?story=N2001-01-22-1600-0

.html

by David Kravets
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Portions of the court file of disgraced former
California Coastal Commissioner Mark Nathanson are blacked out, and a federal
appeals panel said Monday it doesn't understand why.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new hearing before U.S.
District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton, who had blacked out parts of the file. No
date has been set.



Washington Post 01/22/01
Mexico moves slowly to confront past
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19475-2001Jan19.html

by Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
MEXICO CITY -- In his first seven weeks in office, President Vicente Fox has
frustrated critics, and even some members of his cabinet, by moving slowly to
investigate the rampant corruption and human rights violations of Mexico's
authoritarian governments during the last seven decades.



Wired News 01/11/01 (Thanks to Cal Lee for the tip)
Argentina's anti-corruption net
http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,41132,00.html

by Julia Scheeres
In a move to reduce corruption by functionaries in faraway places, Argentina
mandated its provincial governments to publish all official transactions on
the Internet.
Under the new law, Argentina's 23 provinces must report their budget,
contract and payroll information on the Net every month for public review.
The measure was precipitated by a reported 117 percent increase in federal
disbursements to the provinces between 1991 and 1999.


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

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