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RAIN 5/03:Ellis Island problems, open records, privacy, moving re cords



Boston Globe 5/1/01
Federal agents seize insurance documents in Bridgeport
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/121/region/Federal_agents_seize_insurance:.s
html

Associated Press
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) Federal agents have seized documents from City Hall
related to the purchase of life insurance policies for Mayor Joseph P. Ganim
and five top administrators, the Connecticut Post reported Tuesday.
Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service two weeks ago obtained a
copy of a nine-page City Council resolution and other paperwork regarding
$2.6 million worth of life insurance policies for city officials, City Clerk
Fleeta Hudson told the Post.



The Herald of Everett 5/1/01
Shredder's niche
Autistic man gets help to launch a business of his own
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/01/5/1/13683949.cfm

by Janice Podsada
LYNNWOOD -- When 36-year-old Ron John began a new job four months ago, he
took such a liking to his work that he shredded his first pay check.
No surprise, said Christie Tipton -- given that John's job is shredding
paper. Document destruction professional, says his business brochure.
Tipton, John's foster mother, tells the story with pride. John who is
autistic, spent the first 22 years of his life housed in a Sacramento,
Calif., institution, where he was labeled profoundly mentally retarded,
Tipton said.


Information Today 5/01
Innodata to create XML archives for ProQuest Historical Newspapers Project
http://www.infotoday.com/it/may01/news13.htm

Innodata Corp. has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Bell
& Howell Information and Learning to provide XML digital-content services
for its ProQuest Historical Newspapers project
(http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com). The ongoing project, which was
announced in January, is creating an XML-based digital historical archive of
full runs of national, regional, and local newspapers, beginning with U.S.
papers and eventually including ones published in other countries.

NOTE:The following article contains some very good points about sizing and
developing websites especially concerning user access to databases.

InternetWeek 4/26/01
Ellis Isle: Uptime Comeuppance
http://www.internetweek.com/newslead01/lead042601.htm

by Mike Koller
Between 1892 and 1924, nearly 23 million immigrants entered the United
States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. Today, an underpowered
Web site promising access to records on those individuals isn't nearly as
welcoming: It denied access to the vast majority of the 50 million people
who hit the site in its first six hours, and it continues to turn people
away in huge numbers.


IT Week 4/23/01
How mobile technology will enable firms to scrap paper
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2001/16/enterprise/

by Martin Banks
The word 'paperless' has become one of the less fashionable terms of IT
hyperbole over recent years, because predictions of the paperless office
have so obviously proved false. There is growing evidence, however, that the
tools to make the paperless office a reality are now becoming available.


Star Tribune 5/1/01
Judge orders shared Fen-Phen papers
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84083581

Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered American Home Products
Corp. to turn over thousands of documents to plaintiffs who opted out of the
massive fen-phen settlement and plan to take their cases to trial.
U.S. District Judge Louis C. Bechtle rejected the company' s argument that
the documents were privileged.


Ottawa Citizen 5/1/01
Return all documents, BDC tells ex-president
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010501/5009898.html

by Joan Bryden
The Business Development Bank of Canada has served formal notice to its
former president, demanding the immediate return of all bank documents in
his possession, particularly those involving the Auberge Grand-Mere, the inn
at the heart of conflict of interest allegations against Prime Minister Jean
Chretien.


New York Times 5/1/01
Free Rides now passe on information highway
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/technology/01FREE.html

by Saul Hansell
There never was such a thing as a free lunch over the Internet. But for a
while a determined freeloader could find a Web site that would pick up the
tab for all sorts of other goods and services, from computer keyboards to
photo developing, in return for little more than looking at a few ads.
No more.


New York Times 5/1/01
'The Archives are more democratic'
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/01LIST.html?searchpv=nytToday

by James Glanz
In a small example of the broad reach of the Los Alamos electronic archive,
21 scientists outside the United States responded to a reporter's questions
about the archive. Here are those who responded, and a sampling of their
e-mail comments.


New York Times 5/1/01
Web archive opens a new realm of research
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/01ARCH.html?searchpv=nytToday

by James Glanz
Lubos Motl, an undergraduate physics student at Charles University in
Prague, was not feeling very cheerful over the Christmas holidays in 1996.
His family was shaken by instability, he was suffering chronic stomach pain
and he had just been hospitalized after a serious accident at home. And no
one at the university knew much about his scientific passion, a highly
abstract and mathematical area of physics called string theory.
To overcome his personal difficulties, Mr. Motl could only call upon what
turned out to be a remarkable internal resiliency. But his scientific
challenges had a more straightforward solution: an electronic, Web-based
archive centered at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.


Sacramento Bee 5/1/01
Return of document ordered in legal fight: The Bee also is told not to
reveal a name that a clerk failed a black out
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local05_20010501.html

by Sam Stanton
A federal judge in Sacramento and The Bee are engaged in a legal battle over
what the newspaper can print about a case involving years-old accusations
against Gov. Gray Davis.
In the latest twist in a controversial case, The Bee has been ordered by
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton to return all copies of a court
document that court officials released April 20.



Mobile Register 5/1/01
Siegelman official: unsigned contract not public record
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?May2001/1-a451781a.html

by Eddie Curran
Officials in Gov. Don Siegelman's administration said Monday they had found
the state's contract with a company chosen to oversee a $16-million
warehouse project that has been put on hold pending a former judge's review.

But a lawyer for Siegelman told the Mobile Register that the contract would
not be released to the public because it was not signed.
Administration officials said the contract - part of a far-ranging public
records request by the Register that began more than three weeks ago - was
found where the newspaper had suggested the state look in the first place:
with a firm handling bonding for the project.



The Lynchburg News & Advance 4/27/01
Students' look ahead lost in school vaults
http://www.newsadvance.com/MGBUGFNE1MC.html

by Shannon Brennan
Twenty-five years ago, Laura Giorgi Cooper stuffed her prizewinning essay on
what life would be like in the year 2001 into a time capsule. The capsule
was placed in the vault at the school administration building. It was to be
opened this year.
Cooper was an eighth-grader at Linkhorne Junior High School and she still
remembers predicting we would be a Communistic society.
"Thank God I was wrong," she said.
Cooper didn't keep a copy of the essay and she would love to see what she
wrote.
Trouble is, no one can find the time capsule.


The Star 5/1/01
The quest for an intelligent search agent
http://www.thestar.com.my/tech/story.asp?file=/2001/5/1/prodit/01ahmad3&sec=
main

by Ahmad Sayuthi
THE Internet is a huge, global library with billions of documents on just
about every subject under the sun and more. Unlike brick-and-mortar
libraries however, there is no central index-card catalogue that accurately
records all the material available.


Connecticut Post 5/1/01
Under fire: policy records seized by feds
http://www.connpost.com/S-ASP-Bin/ReformatSQLIndex.ASP?puid=6773&spuid=6773&;
Indx=831796&Article=ON&id=53801759&ro=0

by Bill Cummings
BRIDGEPORT -- FBI and IRS agents, armed with a federal grand jury subpoena,
have taken documents from City Hall relating to the purchase of life
insurance policies for Mayor Joseph P. Ganim and five top administrators.
City Clerk Fleeta Hudson on Monday confirmed that agents two weeks ago
obtained a copy of a nine-page council resolution and other documents
regarding $2.6 million worth of life insurance for Ganim and top
administrators.



UPI 5/1/01
Alaska chastised on maintenance records
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=182196

SEATTLE, May 1 (UPI) -- Alaska Airlines and one of its supervisors were hit
with sanctions Tuesday in unrelated administrative actions revolving around
record-keeping practices at the airline's maintenance facilities. An
administrative judge in Seattle revoked the mechanic's maintenance
supervisor license after determining that he had improperly signed off on
repair work without first definitively verifying that it had actually been
performed.


Korea Herald 5/1/01
Modern approach to Korean historical documents offered over Internet
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/05/02/200105020036.asp

By Lee Joo-hee Staff reporter

Rare Korean historical materials will be made available over the Internet,
promoters said yesterday.
The Kyujanggak library of Seoul National University (SNU) said the first
stage of constructing the Korean historical information system as part of an
Information and Communication Ministry project, will be completed in two
months and go into service May 15.


AllAfrica.com 5/2/01
Second copter file vanishes
http://allafrica.com/stories/200105010298.html

Anne Mugisa, Milton Olupot & Alfred Wasike
Kampala
The Ssebutinde helicopter probe commission yesterday rejected documents
tendered by the Registry of Companies officials concerning the Consolidated
Sales Corporation (CSC), saying they were doctored.


Boston Globe 5/2/01
Paper companies win partial victory in fight over documents
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/122/region/Paper_companies_win_partial_vi:.s
html

Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Three paper companies have won a partial victory in
their lawsuit against two Maine Indian tribes over access to documents
linked to a environmental dispute.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ruled that the Penobscot Nation
and Passamaquoddy Tribe must give the companies any communications with the
state and federal governments concerning regulation of water quality.


Canada Newswire 5/1/01
COA picture collection now available on the CP Picture Archive
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/May2001/01/c0174.html

TORONTO, May 1 /CNW/ - CP Picture Archive, Canada's leading online
picture database, will become home to 20,000 historic images from the
Canadian Olympic Association (COA) picture collection.


Law.com 5/2/01
Commerce Department seeks Privacy adviser
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View
&c=Article&cid=ZZZCBHH68MC&live=true&cst=1&pc=5&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&s
howsummary=0

by Keith Perine
The Industry Standard
U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans announced last week that he will hire a
senior adviser for privacy matters for the Commerce Department. The adviser,
who has yet to be named, will watch over the department's Internet system
and privacy policies, according to a department statement.


 Portland Press Herald 5/2/01
Court tells tribe to hand over documents
http://www.portland.com/news/state/010502mills.shtml

by Roberta Scruggs
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that two Indian tribes must
turn over some water-quality documents to three paper companies, but not
other documents.


Boston Herald 5/2/01
Ex-clerk charged in sale of fake licenses
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/regi05022001.htm

by J.M. Lawrence
A former clerk at the Registry of Motor Vehicles Copley Place headquarters
cranked out phony licenses for buyers willing to pay thousands for fake
driving and trucking licenses, according to a federal indictment unsealed
yesterday.


Philadelphia Daily News 5/2/01
Historic artifacts missing
http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/05/02/local/ROSS02C.htm

by Dave Davies
Philadelphia police and the city inspector general's office are
investigating the disappearance of four historically valuable artifacts from
the Betsy Ross House, the Daily News has learned.


The Tennessean 5/2/01
Human chain delivers 1808 tax book to its new home
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04646878.shtml?Element_ID=464
6878

by Sue McClure
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - With the help of hundreds of schoolchildren, court
employees and history buffs, a cardboard box containing Maury County Tax
Book No. 1 made its way, slowly but surely down East Seventh Street
yesterday from the county courthouse to its new home in the Maury County
Archives.


Industry Click 5/1/01
Live from Washington, DC: Privacy concerns drag down e-sales
http://www.industryclick.com/magnewsarticle.asp?newsarticleid=198787&magazin
eid=151&SiteID=2

by Patricia Odell
Consumers remain worried about online privacy despite widespread use of the
Internet.
One key indicator of this is that online sales have been lagging, Joel
Winston, acting associate director of financial practices for the Federal
Trade Commission said yesterday during a session at the Direct Marketing
Association's Government Affairs Conference in Washington, DC.


Newsfactor Network 4/27/01
Is Internet privacy an oxymoron?
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/9318.html

by Keith Regan
www.EcommerceTimes.com
Think there's such a thing as Internet privacy? Think again.
Outgoing Yahoo! chief executive officer Tim Koogle might not have thought
that Internet privacy was a contradiction in terms. But that was before he
was "outed" by The Washington Post for using a screen name to participate in
auctions -- on eBay.


Montreal Gazette 5/2/01
Ex-president wants controversial writ struck down
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/010502/5015817.html

by Elizabeth Thompson
The Quebec Court of Appeal should strike down a controversial writ granted
by Quebec Superior Court Justice Joel Silcoff, to ensure no judge ever again
grants such an "outrageous" order, the lawyer for the former head of the
Business Development Bank said yesterday.


dc.internet 5/2/01
DC Court mandates electronic filings
http://dc.internet.com/news/article/0,1934,2101_756751,00.html

by Roy Mark
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia is no longer accepting paper
filings, except for initial complaints, in its most complex and lengthy
civil cases, becoming one of the first courts in the Northeast corridor to
mandate electronic filing (e-filing). The D.C. Superior Court has the
nation's highest per-capita caseload, one case for every three D.C.
residents.


Reuters 5/1/01
SeaView video says SEC probing books, records
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010501/tc/tech_seaview_sec_dc_1.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SeaView Video Technology Inc. (SEVU.OB), a maker of
underwater cameras and security video systems, has said that federal
securities regulators were investigating disclosures the company has made
about its financial condition.


Kennebec Journal 5/2/01
State's reference library project set to continue
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/010502state_li.shtml

by Dan McGillvray
AUGUSTA - The state's most important collection of legal papers and
documents is in for a short trip.
Shortly after the Legislature adjourns this session - and the latest date
allowed by law is June 20 -contents of the Law and Legislative Reference
Library will be boxed and moved about a half mile away to temporary quarters
at 161 Capitol St.


The Age 5/3/01
Whistleblower tells of file leak
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/05/03/FFX6KT0J8MC.html

by Sue Cant
The whistleblower at the centre of allegations of a 1994 ministerial
cover-up over ambulance tenders said yesterday that he had secretly released
documents he believed were being suppressed.


The Scotsman Online 5/2/01
£5 note could fetch £2,000 in real money
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=68589

by David Lee
WHEN it was issued in 1806, it was a simple fiver. A lot if money at the
time, you understand, but a fiver nonetheless.


The Toronto Star  5/2/01
Schools want access to young offenders' files
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_sessi
on_id_FutureTenseContentServer=95cc189c5f6969f2&pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti
cle_Type1&c=Article&cid=988688229941&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=96833218
8854&call_pagepath=News/World

OTTAWA (CP) - Schools need to know if there are young offenders in their
classrooms so they can protect other students and staff, educators say.
At a news conference Tuesday, groups representing teachers, administrators
and trustees called for an amendment to the proposed youth justice act that
would require justice officials to share information about young offenders
with schools.



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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