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RAIN 02/13: To scan or not to scan, sport's records....



...case records destroyed and adaptive reuse. All and more appear in today's
posting.

Portland Press Herald 02/12/01
Electronic copying unsettles registries
http://www.portland.com/news/coast/010212deeds.shtml

by Dennis Hoey
BATH - Last month, a man walked into the Sagadahoc County Registry of Deeds
and began using a personal scanning device to copy registry documents. He
was told to stop by an employee, who was uncertain whether he had the right
to use the scanner.
The incident raises an issue for the state's 16 Registries of Deeds, whose
policies vary widely on the use of electronic equipment to gather
information. Most registries charge a fee to researchers or lawyers for
copies of documents.
The fee system has worked well in Sagadahoc, generating annual revenues of
$45,000. But Sagadahoc stands to lose those revenues if registry users start
taking their own electronic copies or photographs of records. The question
has now been raised in Sagadahoc and elsewhere: How far can the public go in
its use of technology to collect information from public documents?


Boston Globe 02/12/01
County mulls curbs on use of digital technology in deeds offices
<http://www.boston.com/dailynews/043/region/County_mulls_curbs_on_use_of_d:.
shtml>

Associated Press
BATH, Maine (AP) Lawyers and researchers equipped with personal scanners,
digital cameras and other high-tech devices are becoming a familiar sight at
Maine's 16 Registries of Deeds, a trend that has raised questions about the
need for restrictions.
In Sagadahoc County, the Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday to discuss
whether to create a policy that could set limits on the use of the devices.
At issue is the potential loss of fee revenues that counties now take in
from people seeking copies of registry documents. In Sagadahoc County, the
fees generate $45,000 a year.
Officials don't want to lose that source of revenue, but they also are
concerned that restrictions on the use of electronic equipment to gather
information could collide with the rights of the public.



Ames Tribune 02/09/01
Editorial: Open records must stay open and accessible
<http://www.zwire.com/site/News.cfm?BRD=2035&dept_id=238098&newsid=1393027&P
AG=461&rfi=9>

We think the Legislature should do what it can to make sure every sheriff's
office, police department, county courthouse and city hall knows,
understands and follows the open records law.
Could I see a list of your gun permits?"
The desk clerk took the request straight to the sheriff.
Sheriff Scott Anderson of Hamilton County (that's the one just north and
west of Story County) came out of his office and very calmly asked who
wanted the permits. He asked for identification. He wrote down name, address
and Social Security number.
"This is an unusual request for us," he said.




Cincinnati Post 02/12/01
Jewish Archives growing, center serves scholars
http://www.cincypost.com/2001/feb/12/arch021201.html

by Stephen Huba
Every year, dozens of Jewish scholars spend time in Cincinnati researching
some of the most pressing issues facing American Jewry.
Their destination is the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish
Archives. On the Clifton campus of Hebrew Union College, the center is
considered the largest cataloged collection of documents on United States
Jewry.
In the midst of a $4.5 million expansion, the center also is poised to put a
more public face on its work.
Lately, authors of major books have come here to research, among other
things, Jewish cooking in America, the changing role of women in American
Judaism, and the response to Nazism by American Jews.



Boston Globe 02/12/01
Krupp files suit against team to get records
<http://www.boston.com/dailynews/043/sports/Krupp_files_suit_against_team_:.
shtml>

by Laura Potts
Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) Suspended Detroit Red Wings defenseman Uwe Krupp filed a
lawsuit against the team Monday seeking personnel records he believes are
related to his suspension.
But the Red Wings said they have provided Krupp with all the documents he is
legally entitled to receive. The Wings plan to file a motion to dismiss the
suit, said Robert Batterman, the team's labor counsel.
Krupp and the Red Wings are scheduled to begin arbitration March 22
regarding his ongoing suspension.
The former All-Star agreed to a four-year contract worth $16 million before
the start of the 1998-99 season. Krupp played 22 games for the Wings before
injuring his back in a game.
Eight months later, the Wings suspended Krupp, saying he endangered his
recovery by competing in a dogsled race two weeks after he was injured.




Orange County Register 02/12/01
Case closed, file shredded
O.C.'s destruction of thousands of old court records raises concerns
http://www.ocregister.com/community/files00212cci6.shtml

by John McDonald
Tens of thousands of court case files are being destroyed in Orange County
in a long-running but little-known program that some lawyers and
investigators say is interfering with such diverse needs as product-safety
research and employment background checks.
The cost of storing records prompted a 1995 county program to destroy
dismissed cases, roughly one third of all cases. The program drew little
notice when the records were first being shredded. They were mostly files
from the 1980s, and the cases were available to the public on microfiche.
The file-destruction program progressed last year to cases filed in the
1990s. There are no copies of those files on microfiche or in any other
form.
Bruce Broillet, president of Consumer Lawyers of California, said he was
surprised to hear court records were being destroyed.




New York Times 02/12/01
Ground broken for new Lincoln site
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Lincoln-Library.html

by Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois runs five major Abraham Lincoln historic
sites, and the National Park Service has four others. Collections of Lincoln
papers are scattered from Washington to Tennessee to California.
So why is the government spending $115 million to build a Lincoln museum and
library in Springfield?
Hundreds of spectators joined Illinois' top dignitaries and national
historians to break ground in downtown Springfield for the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum on Monday, Lincoln's birthday. The complex
will be 198,000 square feet, divided into two parts -- a library scheduled
to be finished in fall 2002 and a museum set for spring 2003.





New York Times 02/12/01
Groups warming toward privacy law
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Privacy-Pledge.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even as federal officials promise to push harder on
privacy legislation this year, groups from across the political spectrum are
challenging them to put it in writing.
The coalition presented officials ``privacy pledges'' Monday that would
ensure federal privacy safeguards and give people the right to remove or
correct computerized personal information held by online companies.
Industry groups have resisted even the laxest of privacy legislation, but
they are warming slowly to the idea. They also want to assure online users
still wary about entering their addresses and credit card numbers on the
Web.




New York Times 02/12/01
Medical industry lobbies to rein in new patients privacy rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/12/health/12PRIV.html

by Robert Pear
W ASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - Just weeks before far-reaching new rules to protect
the privacy of people's medical records go into force, the health care
industry is lobbying the Bush administration to delay, change or kill the
regulations.
Hospitals, insurance companies, health maintenance organizations and medical
researchers said the rules, issued in the final weeks of the Clinton
administration, would impose costly burdens. But members of Congress said
the privacy protections, while they went further than many lawmakers
expected when Congress asked to have them written, were immensely popular
with consumers and would be hard to reverse at this point.




San Antonio Express-News 02/12/01
Few are left to tell the stories of African-Americans
<http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/storypage.cfm?xla=
saen&xlb=0&xlc=185270&xld=0>

by Jaime Castillo
The Rev. A.C. Sutton and the Rev. Claude Black have forgotten more of San
Antonio's African-American history than many people will ever know.
It's not a boast. It's not a source of pride.
In fact, it's a sad realization for a pair of octogenarians who seem to
exhale history with virtually every breath.
With few published works and no archive devoted to the topic, preserving the
city's African-American history comes down to individuals. And every year,
there are fewer who can tell it.




The Daily Telegraph 02/13/01
Images of nude girls circulated
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1704522%255E421,00.html

A SENIOR Department of Community Services officer was suspended yesterday
for circulating pictures of naked South American "girls of passion" on his
office Internet.
Charges under the Public Sector Management Act may also be laid against
George Shearer, assistant manager of the Child and Family Unit of DOCS' Mt
Druitt branch.
Documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph reveal Mr Shearer was one of four
DOCS officers -- one of whom has left the department -- who sent or received
the images in July last year.
They show women "in various poses, displaying ... all parts of their
anatomy", according to the documents.
In the papers, Mr Shearer admits receiving pornographic pictures on his
office computer, sent by a colleague.



The Oregonian 02/12/01
Preserving Portland's past
A onetime incinerator now protects the city's historical civic documents for
citizen's study and use
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/01/02/lc
_21archi12.frame>

F rom a distance it looks abandoned. Most windows are plugged with concrete.
The structure sits on a wintertime lawn off Portland's North Columbia
Boulevard, not far from a former landfill, but it holds a revelation.
Inside this two-story fortress with concrete windows to block the sun,
archivists maintain their fight against light and the connected oxidation
that eats away at documents.
But with the city's 150th birthday in full swing, a beam of municipal
limelight might dance up the roadway and land for a moment on a doorway name
the length of a train -- "The City of Portland Stanley Parr Archives &
Records Center."



Info Today 02/12/01
Wider access to U.S. court records database stirs up controversry
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010212-1.htm

by Paula J. Hane
The U.S. federal courts are quickly moving to create electronic case files
and to provide public access to those files through the Internet. The
Judicial Conference of the United States has been studying the privacy and
security implications of vastly wider public access to these court documents
via a Web-based system called Public Access to Court Electronic Records
(PACER). In mid-November, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
solicited comments about PACER from the public, due by January 26, 2001.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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