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RAIN 01/28: Weekend Update Part 2



The Arizona Republic 01/26/01
Election officials seek open-records law limits
http://www.azcentral.com/news/0126registration26.html

by Beth DeFalco
A threat last year to post voters' personal information on the Internet has
prompted a proposal in the Legislature to weaken the state's open-records
law.
Election officials cite the threat of identity theft in asking legislators to
ban the viewing of voter registration cards by anyone except the voter and
election officials.
"You give a name, Social Security number, date of birth and mother's maiden
name and you have a recipe for identity theft," said Tonia Garrett, a
lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Counties.



Washington Post 01/27/01
Appeals Court rules against FEC
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53560-2001Jan26.html

by Bill Miller
A federal appeals court sharply criticized the Federal Election Commission in
a ruling yesterday, saying its lawyers improperly attempted to file court
documents publicly in a case that would have revealed details about a pending
investigation.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel said the FEC lawyers violated
the law and their own regulations when they attached exhibits about a
sensitive case to a court filing seeking to enforce a subpoena issued to a
witness in the probe. Such details are bound by confidentiality rules and
must remain sealed, the judges said.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 01/27/01
Arkansas FOI law Digital upgrade needed
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Sat/edi/wopNEWKAZA27.html

by Greg Kaza
Special to the Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1967 to protect the
public's right to know about the inner workings of their government, is in
vast need of a digital upgrade for the Information Age.
Arkansas' FOIA has aged. The act was weakened the last time the governor and
state Legislature visited the issue. Expanding it in the current session will
take leadership and courage from the people's representatives, but would show
taxpayers, and the nation, that Arkansas is serious about e-government.



New York Times 01/28/01
Auschwitz Revisited: Polish scholars compile version left by victims and
killers alike
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/world/28AUSC.html

by Ralph Blumenthal
Prodded by Holocaust survivors and scholars, Auschwitz has been giving up
more of its last infernal secrets.
Drawing on captured German documents newly available from Russian archives
and more than a half- century of Auschwitz studies, researchers in Poland
have compiled what experts call the most complete and authoritative history
of the vast killing center for the Nazi extermination of the Jews.
Called simply "Auschwitz 1940- 1945" and just issued in English, it is a
five-volume work of more than half a million words that has been under
preparation by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum since 1979. Replete with names
of killers and victims, it fills 1,799 pages, including construction plans
for the gas chambers and crematories, prisoner lists, first- hand accounts,
rare photographs, an almost day-by-day calendar and a 49-page bibliography.



Casper Star-Tribune 01/26/01
Bill would open prison records
http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/CriminalRecords26.html

Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A bill to allow the public to access criminal records
of inmates in state prisons passed its first test in the Senate on Thursday.
Currently the prisons release no information on prisoners after they are
convicted and sentenced for a crime, even after the inmates die.



Denver Post 01/27/01
Tribe says trust files unharmed
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0127l.htm

by Bill McAllister
WASHINGTON - Northern Cheyenne tribal officials have rejected charges that
boxes of records needed to reconcile American Indian trust accounts recently
were destroyed at their reservation in Montana.
Interior Department officials released a letter Friday from the Northern
Cheyenne Tribe Administration in Lame Deer, Mont., stating that the 20 boxes
of social service records destroyed there Jan. 12 did not relate to any trust
accounts or trust property.




Washington Post 01/28/01
Fla. 'overvotes' hit Democrats the hardest
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53804-2001Jan26.html

by Dan Keating
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Florida voters who spoiled their ballots because they
punched more than one presidential candidate's name were three times as
likely to have included Vice President Gore as one of their choices as George
W. Bush, a Washington Post analysis has found.
A review of computerized records for 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's
largest counties offers new details of how voters erred. It reveals that,
while both Vice President Gore and George W. Bush each may have lost votes
that were intended for them, Democratic voters were significantly more likely
to have invalidated their ballots than Republican voters.



Belleville News-Democrat 01/27/01
Notary admits mistake in signing Cook papers
http://www.bnd.com/news/docs/ruby127.htm

by George Pawlaczyk
GRANITE CITY -- A first-year notary public said she made a mistake when she
notarized a ``statement of candidacy'' that could put jailed and indicted
Brooklyn Mayor Ruby Cook on the ballot in the April 3 election.
``I screwed up,'' said Theresa M. Harding, 71, a notary public who works at a
Granite City insurance agency.
Harding, who became a notary in May after successfully applying to the
Illinois secretary of state for the unpaid position, was shown a document on
Friday by a reporter for the Belleville News-Democrat. It supposedly showed
that Harding personally witnessed Cook sign an election document on Jan. 19.



CNET News.com 01/26/01
Privacy group seeks review of Net access to court files
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4614534.html?tag=ch_mh

by Stefanie Olsen
A privacy-rights group requested Friday that a government commission consider
the ill effects of a new system that will allow public, online access to
select court files and personal information.
"Instant online access to court records raises monumental privacy issues for
U.S. citizens," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Privacy
Foundation, an education and research group based in Denver.
The action is in response to growing concern about identity theft. Many
consumers and privacy advocates are wary of the Internet's ability to act as
a conduit for distributing personal data. They are pushing regulators to
strike a balance that would make information easily accessible and would
ensure individuals' security.



Washington Post 01/27/01
Suit over Kohl's Stasi  file revives East-West divide
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54513-2001Jan27.html

by Peter Finn
BERLIN -- Late last year, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl made a number
of unpublicized visits to an office in central Berlin. Each time, for several
hours, he pored over the voluminous file that the defunct East German secret
police, the Stasi, had assembled on him, including at least 9,000 pages of
transcripts from telephone taps.
It is not known what Kohl read about himself. And the former chancellor wants
to keep it that way. Kohl quickly sued to prevent the release of his file,
arguing that to make it public would violate his constitutional rights to
privacy.



New York Times 01/28/01
N.F.L. Films could make old games new again
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/superbowl/28SAND.html

by Richard Sandomir
Until a few years ago, there was no TV afterlife for old games.
Then the Classic Sports Network (now ESPN Classic) came along, offering an
ever-expanding selection of vintage Major League Baseball, National
Basketball Association and National Hockey League games, as well as old
tennis, college basketball and college football telecasts.
But no National Football League games. We've seen the NFL Films versions.
They're fine, but they're league productions. Grand as they are, they are
cinematic propaganda.



Los Angeles Times 01/28/01
Mexico to look into missing millions saved for braceros
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010128/t000008215.html

by Rich Connell and Robert Lopez
Moving to heal a generations-old wound, Mexican government officials will
announce Monday an investigation into the alleged disappearance of millions
of dollars deducted from the earnings of laborers who came north to work U.S.
fields and railroads after the onset of World War II.
The probe could be the best and last hope for thousands of the surviving
migrants to find out what happened to money that was supposed to have been
set aside for them when they returned home. Now in their 70s and 80s, many
are destitute and complain that they never received the funds.


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

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