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Lexington Herald-Leader 02/24/01
Judge: Litigation doesn't negate open records law
<http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/022401/statedocs/24openrec
ord.htm>

by Mark R. Chellgren
Associated Press
FRANKFORT Access to public documents under the Kentucky Open Records Law is
not suspended if the documents might also be used in ongoing civil
litigation, the Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Keith B. Hunter and Christophe Stewart are attorneys who were representing a
client in an unemployment compensation case against the Kentucky Lottery
Corp.

Los Angeles Times 02/24/01
Let my medical records go
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010224/t000016722.html

by Karen Karlitz
When KPC Medical Management went bankrupt and abruptly closed its doors last
Nov. 20, 38 medical clinics were closed, affecting approximately 2,000
employees and more than 300,000 patients in Southern California. Patients
didn't know where to retrieve their medical records or recent diagnostic
test results.


New York Times 02/20/01
Demise of typewriter shop saddens authors who nurse their machines
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/nyregion/20TYPE.html

by Glenn Collins
A nother typewriter store is going out of business; a few more of the
shrinking qwerty minority shudder.
"It's like having the carpet pulled out from under us," said Stewart R.
Manville, a longtime customer of the Tytell Typewriter Company in Manhattan,
which is closing after seven decades.
Like those who cling to vinyl, Mr. Manville and other typewriter diehards
argue that theirs is the superior technology. Simpler. More reliable. More
easily maintained. Able to print immediately, without a costly accessorized
entourage.




New York Times 02/25/01
Midstream: The gift of good record-keeping
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/business/25MIDS.html

by James Schembari
M any years ago, my wife's grandfather gave us a $5,000 municipal bond,
which earns us about $350 a year in interest. Thanks, Grandpa.
But I have been careless about clipping its coupons. Often, I wait until a
bunch are due, then send them in all at once.
The last time I started to do that, maybe the phone rang - the bond ended up
on top of my dresser, unclipped. Later, still too busy, I slipped the bond
into the little dresser drawer where guys keep loose change and important
receipts. There, I forgot about it.
It gets worse.




Charleston Gazette 02/24/01
McGraw battles Texas firm over bank record subpoenas
http://www.wvgazette.com/news/Other+News/2001022318/

by Lawrence Messina
A Texas company wants the bank records of West Virginians who complained to
consumer protection officials about its allegedly illegal check collection
practices, court papers filed Friday said.
TeleCheck Services has charged unlawful fees, has harassed consumers by
telephone and mail and has even withdrawn money without permission from
residents' bank accounts, a lawsuit filed this month by Attorney General
Darrell V. McGraw said.




Pioneer Planet 02/23/01
Legislature to consider changes to Open Records Law
Action needed in wake of high court decisions affecting access to some
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/fri/news/docs/031200.htm

by Jenny Price
Associated Press
Madison, Wis.
Lawmakers are proposing changes in the state Open Records Law designed to
end confusion over what information can be kept secret and what must be
released to the public.
Journalists say the law needs to be changed following a series of state
Supreme Court decisions that have made access to some records more
difficult.




Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 02/22/01
Proposal intended to define what records public can't see
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/feb01/open23022201a.asp

Associated Press
Madison - Lawmakers are proposing changes in the state open records law
designed to end confusion over what information can be kept secret and what
must be released to the public.
Journalists have said that the law needs to be changed after a series of
state Supreme Court decisions that have made access to some records more
difficult.
The law, passed in 1981, presumes that all government records are public,
with some exemptions, and explains procedures on providing copies.




Los Angeles Times 02/25/01
Mexican scholars lament the loss of writers' archives to U.S.
Manuscripts and papers often are sent north, where better conditions for
preservation exist.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010225/t000016952.html

By Jill Leovy
MEXICO CITY--Guillermo Sheridan had a bitter smile as he scrolled down the
list of acquisitions by Princeton University: The papers of Carlos Fuentes,
Miguel Angel Asturias, Julio Cortazar, Elena Garro--even a lesser known
Mexican poet named Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano.
"We Mexicans always sell our raw materials," he remarked acidly, stopping at
Ortiz's name on his computer screen. "Coffee, copper--and this."





San Jose Mercury News 02/25/01
Internet giving children a historical context for Black History Month
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/webwatch25.htm

by Darryl E. Owens
Orlando Sentinel
A popular joke among black comedians goes like this: Figures Black History
Month falls in February -- it's the shortest month on the calendar.
Actually, Carter G. Woodson, a noted African-American author and scholar,
established Negro History Week in 1926 -- in February. The week evolved into
Black History Month, established in 1976.




St. Petersburg Times 02/25/01
Pinellas Park monitors employee phone records
The city's system can track incoming and outgoing numbers and the length of
a call
<http://www.sptimes.com/News/022501/SouthPinellas/Pinellas_Park_monitor.shtm
l>

by Anne Lindberg
PINELLAS PARK -- Big Brother is alive and well in city government: Officials
are monitoring employees' phone records.
For City Manager Jerry Mudd, the monthly oversight is his newest effort to
improve efficiency.
To some city employees, the monitoring is an invasion of privacy. The city's
phones record every keystroke made on an outgoing call. If someone uses a
credit card, that number becomes public record.
"It's a management tool," Mudd said Friday.




Atlanta Journal-Constitution 02/25/01
Policies on library donors vary
Clinton not only one not to release names
<http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/news_a389c
a5184ae61890002.html>

Samantha Sommer
Washington --- The scandal surrounding Bill Clinton's presidential pardons
is focusing attention on the foundation that is building his presidential
library and its refusals to make a list of donors public.
Clinton lawyer David Kendall sent a letter Thursday to Congress saying that
the Clinton library foundation will not release a list of donors who pledged
more than $5,000.
As nonprofit organizations, presidential library foundations are not
obligated to release a list of donors. Other presidential library
foundations have differing policies regarding their donor lists.




Central Europe Online 02/22/01
Former Romanian dissident to sue Securitate Archives College
http://www.centraleurope.com/romaniatoday/news.php3?id=295292

RFE/RL
BUCHAREST, Feb 22, 2001 -- (RFE/RL <http://www.rferl.org>) Gabriel
Andreescu, a prominent anti-Ceausescu dissident, on 20 February told
journalists he is suing the National College for the Study of the Securitate
Archives (CNSAS), Mediafax reported.
Andreescu said the college "infringes the legal right of citizens to have
access to their own [Securitate] file." He said he has several times applied
to the CNSAS to see his file but has never received a reply.




Sacramento Bee 02/25/01
War-files law aims to get answers, compensation: Suit filed against Japanese
companies may expose secrets, difficult memories
http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert06_20010225.html

by Michael Doyle
Bee Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Sixty years ago, Tracy resident Melvin Routt fell into the
hands of the Japanese Imperial Army. What happened next, as a prisoner of
war and slave laborer on Japan's home islands, is indelibly etched in
Routt's memory.
But the broader historical memory of what happened to other American,
Chinese and Korean prisoners remains in some cases locked away in secret
archives. Now, a newly enacted law could help pry open the World War II
files.



Star-Tribune 02/24/01
UW Library System celebrates its 6 millionth book
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=83640136

Statewire
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A physics professor is giving the University of
Wisconsin-Madison his collection of more than 26, 000 Italian historical
documents, including books, ledgers, diaries and memorabilia gathered over
the last 40 years.
UW-Madison professor William " Jack" Fry said he is donating his collection
to the university' s library system to keep it safe and available for others
to enjoy and use.
The documents range from an Italian family archive of the late Middle Ages
to political pamphlets circulated after World War II. One rare find was a
diary of the 16th century Italian Renaissance poet Lodovico Ariosto, which
Fry found at a junk shop.





Salt Lake Tribune 02/25/01
Plumbing Museum flushes out trade's history
http://www.sltrib.com/02252001/travel/73740.htm

by Trudy Tynan
Associated Press
WORCESTER, Mass. -- The puns are irresistible at the American Sanitary
Plumbing Museum, which flushes out the history of toilets, sewers and all
manner of indoor plumbing.
"We laugh sometimes ourselves," says B.J. Manoog, the administrator of the
small, two-story museum in downtown Worcester that is a fixture in
guidebooks featuring eccentric and unusual museums.
Still, the snickers of visitors quickly fade into curious questions about
the displays honoring the trade that curtailed plagues and made cities
livable.





Richmond Times Dispatch 02/25/01
Lawmakers protect right to know
Freedom of Information Act unscathed
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBRDKQ5MJC.html

by Michael Hardy and Jeff E. Schapiro
The public's right to know survived - largely intact - despite assaults
during the 2001 session of the General Assembly.
"Generally speaking, there were very positive developments," said Forrest M.
Landon, a retired newspaper editor who heads the Virginia Coalition for Open
Government, an organization of news and public-interest groups.
He pointed out the assembly inserted only two or three minor exemptions in
the state's Freedom of Information Act, which governs Virginians' access to
the operations of local and state governments. The FOIA was overhauled in
1999.




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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