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RAIN 03/19: Weekend Update Part 3



Jupiter 03/01/01
Press Release: Digital Archives represent a $6.3 billion market opportunity
http://www.jup.com/company/pressrelease.jsp?doc=pr010301

NEW YORK, March 1, 2001-Jupiter Media Metrix (NASDAQ: JMXI), the global
leader in market intelligence, today reports that while archived content
delivered over the Internet has the potential to become a $6.3 billion
dollar market by 2006 - up from $2.2 billion in 2001 - only 73 percent of
those dollars will be captured. The overwhelming obstacle to realizing
revenues will come from content owners' false assumption that they can
single-handedly market and distribute their archives directly to consumers
via paid and ad-supported services, rather than through third-party audience
aggregators. A Jupiter Executive Survey revealed that 66 percent of content
owners wish to market content on their own, while only 34 percent plan to
market their archives to consumers through third parties.


Savannah Morning News 03/16/01
Editorial: Autopsy records are public
http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/031601/OPEDautopsy.shtml

LAST MONTH'S death of race car driver Dale Earnhardt at the Daytona 500
shocked and saddened more than NASCAR fans.
Unfortunately, this sorrow is clouding better judgment in Florida, where a
move is underway to curb precious freedoms.
State lawmakers are about to enact legislation that would make it more
difficult for the public to examine autopsy records and photographs, which
are public documents. A proposed law would give judges the power to deny
access to this information a clear infringement of the public's right to
know.



PRNewswire 03/16/01
NC documents reveal DaimlerChrysler's 'massive' lemon laundering
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-16
-2001/0001449253&EDATE=

ARLINGTON, Va., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- DaimlerChrysler's public image is
severely tarnished by documents made public by a North Carolina court that
reveal the cold efficiency of the company's program to buy back and recycle
vehicles with a troubled history, a process known as "lemon laundering." The
documents reveal that Chrysler paid $1.3 billion to buy back more than
50,000 vehicles from 1993 through 2000. The release of the documents is "a
great victory for consumers in America who were defrauded by
DaimlerChrysler," according to Doug Abrams,



Birmingham Business Journal 03/16/01
Uniform electronic signature bill passes Alabama House
http://birmingham.bcentral.com/birmingham/stories/2001/03/12/daily28.html




USA Today 03/15/01
GAO testers got into e-filed tax data
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-03-15-e-filing-risks.htm

by Thomas A. Fogarty
WASHINGTON - In a test last year of e-filing systems at the IRS,
congressional investigators were able to tap into taxpayers' electronically
filed tax returns, according to a government report issued Thursday.
The report by investigators at the General Accounting Office says the breach
uncovered "serious weaknesses" in the Internal Revenue Service's electronic
filing systems that placed taxpayers' personal data at risk.
Under the government's guidelines for auditing computer systems, the IRS was
aware of GAO efforts to penetrate security, and provided investigators
information not available to hackers that made the task easier.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 03/16/01
Bill opening access to birth records fails
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Fri/ark/A_11yxgr-adopt16.html

by Chris Osher
Legislation that would allow adoptees access to their birth certificates
when they turn 21 failed to get out of committee Thursday for the second
time this legislative session.
State Rep. Sandra Rodgers, D-Hope, backed off a compromise proposal she
tried to craft on her House Bill 1057. The House Public Health, Welfare and
Labor Committee again declined to recommend passage.



Boston Herald 03/16/01
State police fighting feds over records
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/whit03162001.htm

by J.M. Lawrence
Massachusetts State Police are seeking to quash federal government subpoenas
demanding they turn over phone and pager records to investigators probing
media leaks about the Bulger case, sources said yesterday.
State investigators want permission to delete the names of confidential
informants and family members from billing records. The records were
supposed to be handed over to Justice Department investigators today.



Charleston Daily Mail 03/16/01
Bill to keep 911 records confidential gets stalled before final vote
Lawmakers rethink bill, say it may be unnecessary
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2001031632/

by Jim Wallace
A Senate bill affecting emergency response centers is in need of some
emergency response itself.
The bill, which would require the centers to keep their records
confidential, was sailing through the Senate and was ready for a final vote
Wednesday, but that vote has been put off for the past two days.



Charleston Gazette 03/17/01
911 secrecy bill dies in Senate
http://www.wvgazette.com/news/News/2001031633/

by Phil Kabler
A Senate 911 secrecy bill has been disconnected because of growing
criticism.
Sen. Mike Ross, D-Randolph, delivered the coup de grace Friday, making the
motion to send the bill (SB 412) back to Judiciary Committee. The bill,
which was up for a passage vote, was recommitted on a voice vote.



Newsbyte 03/16/01
Panel stirs privacy debate over online court records
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163276.html

by Brian Krebs
A hearing on the privacy and security implications of a plan to grant the
allow public Internet access to all US court documents became a virtual
court battle today. Journalists, lawyers and investigators all fought
charges that the new system would only encourage illegitimate uses of
detailed personal information.
The panel at today's hearing, made up of eight judges from several
subcommittees of the Judicial Conference - the policymaking body of the
Judicial Branch - kept witnesses on their toes, interrupting opening
statements and peppering speakers with tough questions.



Casper Tribune 03/16/01
Sheridan Press, radio stations sue to obtain records
http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/16MediaLawsuit.html

Associated Press
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - A newspaper and the owner of three radio stations have
sued the administrator of Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County over the
records leading up to the hospital's purchase of a radiology clinic.
The Sheridan Press and Lovcom Inc., the owner of Sheridan stations KROE-AM,
KYTI-FM and KZWY-FM, filed the lawsuit in 4th District Court in Sheridan on
Wednesday, The Sheridan Press reports.



Naples Daily News 03/17/01
Audit: State Medicaid paid $3.2 million to dead patients
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/03/florida/d604198a.htm

Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH - The state Medicaid office paid at least $3.2 million to
health care providers over nine months on behalf of more than 6,000 dead
patients, an audit found.
The state Auditor General's Office report found that most of that money was
paid within three months of the person's death. However, about $600,000 in
improper payments was made up to two years later.
The report by Auditor General William Monroe analyzed records of 83,730
people who died over a nine-month period in 1998 and 1999. About 7 percent,
or 6,238 patients, had Medicaid bills paid to health maintenance
organizations, hospitals, pharmacies and nursing homes for services after
their deaths.



New York Times 03/17/01
The last (e-mail) goodbye, form 'gwb' to his 42 buddies
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/17/politics/17FRIE.html

by Richard L. Berke
W ASHINGTON, March 16 - At 10:26 p.m. on Jan. 17, less than three days
before he was sworn in as president, George W. Bush sent a group e-mail
message to 42 "dear friends" and family members, telling them his new job
would preclude continuing to correspond in cyberspace.
"My lawyers tell me that all correspondence by e-mail is subject to open
record requests," Mr. Bush wrote to the group, which included top aides and
business people. "Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by
those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in
cyberspace. This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you."



Arizona Republic 03/17/01
Requests made, by Symington's files remain lost
http://www.azcentral.com/news/0317symingtonside17.html

by Kathleen Ingley
You can find the records of Arizona's first governor, George W.P. Hunt, at
the State Archives. But if you need the files from the last governor, Fife
Symington's administration, you're out of luck.
"We get requests, probably two or three times a month, for Symington's
papers," Deputy State Archivist Melanie Sturgeon said. But she has to tell
people there's little available.



Arizona Republic 03/17/01
Files missing from Symington tenure
Public documents have disappeared
http://www.azcentral.com/news/0317symington17.html

by Kathleen Ingley
Arizona history has a hole - most of the papers from former Gov. Fife
Symington's administration are missing.
"Everything was boxed up and put into storage," said Symington, governor
from 1991 to '97. He says he has no clue where the papers went.



Boston Globe 03/16/01
Search continues for tribal boundary map
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/075/region/Search_continues_for_tribal_bo:.s
html

by Ken Maguire
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) At this pace, Connecticut officials might need Lewis and
Clark to help them trace an elusive map showing the boundaries of the
Mashantucket Pequot reservation.
The original redlined map could help settle a boundary dispute raised by
towns bordering the eastern Connecticut reservation. But six weeks after
state officials asked the federal government to search for the map, there
are few answers.



Washington Post 03/17/01
Effort to fix Indian Trust funds 'imploding,' memo says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15996-2001Mar16.html

by Ellen Nakashima
The federal government's effort to fix billions of dollars in Indian trust
funds is "slowly, but surely imploding," according to a memo written by the
man in charge of deploying a new computer system to untangle the accounts.
Dom Nessi, the chief information officer at the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
wrote to Special Trustee Tom Slonaker that the trust reform plan created in
August 1998 to clean up records and institute an accounting system was
"built on wishful thinking and rosy projections."



USA Today 03/17/01
Earnhardt tragedy turns into debate over privacy
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-03-17-earnhardt2.htm

Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Teresa Earnhardt was still in shock over the loss
of her husband when she received another piece of jarring news: A newspaper
wanted Dale Earnhardt's autopsy photos so a doctor could determine the cause
of his death.
That's when the loss of stock car racing's most colorful hero turned into a
civics lesson about a family's plea for privacy and the public's right to
know.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 03/18/01
Carroll County: Letters detailing 1857 massacre arrive in state
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Sun/nwa/B1nwmormon18.html

by John Magsam
BERRYVILLE -- William A. Aden was a promising young man.
At age 21 he was a good sign painter, picked a banjo tolerably, wrote
poetry, and made a pretty good speech when he had a mind to. Aden's father
wrote that his good-looking son was regarded as one of the most ingenious
men of his age.
William A. Aden was murdered almost 145 years ago at Mountain Meadows in
Utah.




Arkansas Democract-Gazette 03/18/01
Clinton library groups keeps cash flowing
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Sun/ark/A1xfoundations18.html

by Elisa Crouch
Fund raising for former President Clinton's archive and museum is typical of
the 42nd president, a man known to bounce back. Despite landing in the
middle of a pardon-plagued, post-presidential controversy, Clinton's library
foundation still rakes in money.
Exactly how much money is not clear. The foundation is getting ready to pass
the hat overseas, and more glitzy dinner parties are to come -- all to raise
$200 million for Clinton's glass-and-steel presidential library in Little
Rock.




The Journal 03/17/01
Probe as hospital files go missing - cabinets vanish from office
http://icnewcastle.ic24.com/0100news/page.cfm?objectid=7569353&method=full

Confidential medical records have gone missing from a North-East hospital
after two filing cabinets disappeared.
The patient records, containing scores of personal medical details and
several photographs, were in two cabinets that have gone missing from an
office at the Nuffield Hospital, Jesmond, Newcastle, while it was being
refurbished.
It is believed the records went missing on Wednesday although the incident
was not reported to the police until Thursday night.




Los Angeles Times 03/18/01
Letter: Keep a Record
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010318/t000023455.html

It is all well and good that the film industry is moving with the times and
embracing digital production techniques ("Digital Cinema Gets a Push," March
4). I'm all for it but for one factor: digital is not archival.



New Haven Register 03/17/01
Web site documents history of blacks, Irish
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1549405&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7
576&rfi=6

by Randall Beach
NEW HAVEN - Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, a Yale research center
Friday unveiled a new Web site showing the "tangled" history of African- and
Irish-Americans.
Tangled Roots" (www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots) reveals what its creators
call "the common legacy" between enslaved Africans and oppressed Irish in
America.
"This will bring white kids into the conversations," said Mary Ann Matthews,
who co-created the Web site.



News Journal 03/17/01
Public records advocates unhappy
http://www.news-journalonline.com/2001/Mar/17/AREA1A.htm

by Andrew Lyons
DAYTONA BEACH -- Proponents of public records laws said Friday the agreement
between the Orlando Sentinel and Teresa Earnhardt sets a dangerous
precedent.
The agreement places limitations "not just on the media in the state but
citizens who really take their rights seriously," said Barbara A. Petersen,
executive director of the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee. "And
I'm not talking about the ghouls or ghouls.com."




Traverse City Record-Eagle 03/18/01
Digging up the local dirt
Ellsworth class researches history of its changing town
http://www.record-eagle.com/2001/mar/18ellsw.htm

by Keith Matheny
ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth High School teacher Michelle Fox takes a unique
approach to her humanities class, letting her students decide each fall what
subject they want to explore. She admitted surprise with their choice this
year - the history under their feet.
Fox's 17 students have spent the year studying the history of Ellsworth and
Banks Township. Their quest for information has taken them to St. Francis
Church in Petoskey, to study baptism records from an old Catholic church in
Atwood that no longer exists. They've also visited the library in Traverse
City, poring over microfilm of old newspapers to learn more about their
community.



Washington Post 03/18/01
CIA declassifies its records on dealings with ex-Nazis
Documents may give clues about obstacles in hunt for war criminals
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20686-2001Mar17.html

by George Lardner, Jr
The CIA is finally getting around to declassifying the records of its
dealings with former Nazi spies after World War II.
It says it has found 251 boxes and 2,901 file folders of potentially
relevant documents -- apparently more than 250,000 pages -- and that it will
take about two years to complete work on them.
Carl Oglesby, a political writer and researcher, has been seeking the
records since 1985 in connection with a study of Reinhard Gehlen, a German
general who had been head of Nazi intelligence for the eastern front.




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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