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Bergen Record 5/03/01
Agreement may widen access to documents
http://www.bergen.com/region/publicsf200105032.htm

by Scott Fallon
A landmark bill that would expand public access to government records took a
leap forward Wednesday when New Jersey's leading press group and the state
Attorney General's Office reached a compromise over the measure's language.
State Sen. Robert J. Martin, R-Morris Plains, the bill's sponsor, said he
will ask the Senate on Wednesday to vote on a number of amendments, which
have stalled the bill.


CNN.com 5/3/01
EU opens secrecy doors
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/03/eu.public/index.html

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Previously secret European Union documents will be made
public, the EU has decided.
The documents will range from defence and trade policies to the positions
the 15 member states hold on a wide range of issues.


EU online 5/3/01
Access to documents
http://www.europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=
IP/01/639|0|RAPID&lg=EN

Access to Documents: Commission welcomes approval of new rules by European
Parliament following the Commission's and the Council's endorsement of that
text.


Associated Press 5/4/01
Documents show FBI Web surveillance
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010504/13/internet-eavesdropping

by D. Ian Hopper
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has used Internet eavesdropping tools to track
fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists, computer hackers and suspected
foreign intelligence agents, documents show.
The documents, obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of
Information Act, also detail how the FBI scurried last year to prove it
wasn't "randomly looking at everyone's e-mail" once its Web surveillance
practices came under attack.



EuropeMedia.net 5/3/01
European Parliament approves rules for access to documents
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=3079

The European Parliament has approved a single set of rules for public access
to documents held by the European Parliament, the Commission and the
Council.
In principle, all documents should be publicly available and refusal to
grant access must be justified by the institution concerned.



ComputerWorld 5/3/01
Corporate privacy policies scrutinized
http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.computerworld.com/cwi
/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO60170,00.html.html

by Patrick Thibodeau
ARLINGTON, VA. - Many corporate privacy policies are too hard to find, too
long and too confusing, according to one U.S. trade commissioner, who said
that companies should take steps to standardize their policies in much the
same way food nutrition labels make it easy for consumers to count calories.

"In short, many privacy policies are beginning to look like complex legal
documents that do not give consumers real choice," said Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) Commissioner Sheila Anthony.



EUBusiness 5/3/01
MEPs approve new public access rights to EU documents
http://www.eubusiness.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=45875&d=101&h=240&f=56&datefor
mat=%o%20%B%20%Y

MEPs voted on 3 May to approve a Regulation granting public access to
documents held by the European institutions. A single set of rules will now
govern people's rights of access to documents held by the European
Parliament, the Commission, and the Council. In principle, once the new
rules come into effect, all documents should be available and any refusal to
grant access must be justified by the institution concerned.



New York Times 5/3/01
State of the Art: Unearthing office tools long buried
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03STAT.html

by David Pogue
When you buy any ordinary product, like a lawn ornament or an electric
toothbrush, you own it. You can put it on your grass or bathroom sink and
admire it as a symbol of how far you've come.
But software works more like a health club membership: the initial payment
is only an entry fee. After that, you're expected to pay dues forever - by
buying the software company's yearly upgrades.



Asbury Park Press 5/4/01
Open-records revisions pass
Senate plans May 14 vote on bill
http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,389646,00.html

by Lilo H. Stainton
Gannett State Bureau
TRENTON -- After months of debate, the state Senate yesterday unanimously
approved changes to a bill that would improve access to governmental records
-- now that the legislation has support from journalists, prosecutors and
crime victims.



The Cincinnati Post 5/3/01
Kenton Fiscal Court withheld requested papers, state says
http://www.kypost.com/2001/may/03/record050301.html

by Luke E. Saladin
The Kenton County Fiscal Court failed to provide proper documents to a
citizen making an open-records request, according to a opinion issued by the
Kentucky Attorney General's office this week.
The opinion stated that the court failed to make a ''good faith effort'' to
provide records to Nathan Smith, a member of the Kenton County Democratic
Party who sought information about the court's $1.5 million purchase of a
building at 501 Main St. The court intends to use the building for offices.



The Times 5/4/01
EU agrees to greater openness
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-124292,00.html

by David Lister
Brussels: The European Commission will be forced to be more open about its
inner workings, making the vast majority of its documents available to
citizens under a deal approved here yesterday.



Chicago Sun-Times 5/04/01
Tolliver lawyers to view police personnel files
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cer04.html

by Carlos Sadovi
Lawyers defending Jonathan Tolliver against charges he murdered Chicago
police officer Michael Ceriale won permission Thursday to see the personnel
records of six police detectives who they say coerced witnesses to testify
against their client.



Las Vegas Review-Journal 5/04/01
Attorney-Client Privilege: Office search draws fire
Lawyers decry prosecutors' strategy
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/May-04-Fri-2001/news/16021969.html

by Peter O'Connell
Prosecutors' decision to use a search warrant to seize evidence from the
office of a criminal defense attorney is drawing fire from lawyers who say
the strategy represents an egregious violation of the attorney-client
privilege.
Prosecutors in September obtained a warrant from District Judge Valorie Vega
to search the office of attorney Gary Segal, who is representing Melodi Ann
Leavitt on a theft charge.



Associated Press 5/05/01
Tracing the Past - American credits Nazi for family's rescue
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0432_BC_Na
ziRescue&&news&newsflash-national

by Stephen Singer
DURHAM, Conn. (AP) -- Michael Good knew only fragments of his family's
struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania -- his mother's hiding place,
how his father stumbled out of range of a German firing squad.
But a trip to Lithuania years later led the physician on a two-year Internet
search for information about Karl Plagge, a German army major who helped his
parents and hundreds of other Jews in a slave labor camp escape slaughter by
the Third Reich.



Washington Post 5/5/01
Tiger on the Paper Trail
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46844-2001May4.html

by Linton Weeks
Let us begin with a crumb. On the skimpy white napkin of Nicholson Baker --
once and future novelist, now newsprint conservator.
The whole-wheat crumb in question is grain-golden, the color of honey in the
postmeridian light. From a Marvelous Market tuna salad sandwich it has
fallen. Baker talks, and eats, unaware of the crumb.



AFXPRESS 5/05/01
U.S. hands over documents to Argentina on alleged money-laundering case
http://www.afxpress.com/afxpress2/html/story_2458125.xml

BUENOS AIRES (AFX) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today handed
over documents related to alleged money laundering by Argentine banks,
officials said.




Irish Times 5/07/01
Civil registrations service to be envy of the world
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/0501/breaking50.htm

by Greg Meylan
The Government today launched a discussion document outlining its £7.3
million plan to modernise the civil registration process and make it "the
envy of all other countries".
Speaking at the launch of the document, "Bringing Civil Registration into
the 21st Century", Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs Mr
Dermot Ahern said Ireland's births, marriages and death registration system
had remained largely unchanged since 1864.



Topeka Capital-Journal 5/6/01
Librarian ends 10-year search
http://cjonline.com/stories/050601/kan_librarian.shtml

by Matt Moline
Special to The Capital-Journal
MANHATTAN -- Anybody can make history.
But only a few are able to pull aside the curtains of history and
successfully uncover its details, as a library archivist discovered while
piecing together the story of the first black woman to graduate from Kansas
State University.
Library researcher Pat Patton's odyssey began 10 years ago with the chance
discovery of a single 3-inch by 5-inch card filed along with thousands of
others in Hale Library's KSU history index.



Daily Yomiuri 5/6/01
Disclosure sluggish in 1st month
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010506wo33.htm

In the month since the information-disclosure law took effect, the
government's ministries and agencies have shown a strong reluctance to
release their official documents to the public.



News24.co.za
Cops probe illegal dumping of Mufamadi documents
http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/Gauteng/0,1113,2-7-829_1020100,00.htm
l

Cape Town - Gauteng police are investigating how highly confidential
documents and private papers belonging to Local Government Minister Sydney
Mufamadi were illegally dumped at a quarry near Centurion, south of Pretoria
on Friday.



Houma Today 5/6/01
Records requests slow audit of Lafourche Parish government
http://www.houmatoday.com/news/stories/4926001003n6.html

by Edward Guidry
NYT Regional Newspapers
THIBODAUX - A legislative audit of Lafourche Parish government has been
slowed while auditors have had to make written requests for official parish
documents.
Accountants from Metairie CPA firm Laporte, Sehrt, Romig and Hand recently
began auditing parish government records but ran into a temporary setback
when they requested copies of official meeting minutes, lead accountant Eric
Bosch said.



The Irish Times 5/7/01
Financial controller seeks Irish Times files
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0505/courts6.htm

The financial controller of The Irish Times applied to the High Court
yesterday for an order giving him files and documents in the possession of
the newspaper. These, he says, are necessary for the preparation of his case
against the company in connection with his alleged redundancy. Mr Richard
Gee (57), who is suing Irish Times Ltd and Irish Times Publications Ltd,
claims that on April 27th, 2000, he was given 12 months' notice of
termination of his position of financial controller, a post he held since
1988.



Messenger-Inquirer 5/6/01
Judge rules activist must bring copier for records search
http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/3085247.htm

Associated Press
LEXINGTON -- A judge has ruled that an activist should have access to
records from the Greenup County animal shelter, but told him to bring his
own copying machine and paper to get the documents.




Los Angeles Times 5/6/01
Closed Archives should be history
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/comment/20010506/t000038268.html

by Mary Ellen Goddard
Orange County has important history and records. Our Orange County Archives
should be a resource for those researching that history. At present, it is
not possible to use the archives for research because the facility is closed
and not staffed. We hope to change this situation, with help from those who
know how important it is to have access to public records.



Los Angeles Times 5/4/01
Barnstorming through 'the Old Ballgame'
http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/san_gabriel_valley/20010504/tsg00011
45.html

by Ryan Carter
PASADENA -- Terry Cannon has a name for Bill Veeck, the irreverent,
wooden-legged 20th-century baseball team owner and promoter whose antics
included sending 3-foot, 7-inch Eddie Gaedel to bat. Veeck organized a game
where the crowd held reversible "yes/no" placards to tell the managers if
teams should bunt, steal a base or make a pitching change.



ENR.com  5/4/01
National Archives awards $75.7 million renovation contract
http://www.enr.com/news/enrbld_50401.asp

by Tom Ichniowski
Grunley Construction Co., Rockville, Md., has won a $75.7-million contract
to renovate the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. A key element
will be upgrades to the facility's rotunda, where the Declaration of
Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are displayed. The documents
will get new display cases with high-tech preservation features.



The Daily Press 4/30/01
Bay City Creek oral history project receives grant
http://www.ashlandwi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=4&story_id=70781&refer_u
rl=

The Wisconsin Humanities Council has awarded a major grant to the Northern
Wisconsin Heritage Connection for phase II of the Bay City Creek Oral
History Project, according to NWHC President Evan Sasman.



Dallas Morning News 5/6/01
Hidden Treasures
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/stories/358623_mural_06liv.AR.html

by Bill Marvel
For decades, the bedroom walls held their secret. It was there somewhere,
hidden beneath layers of plaster and paint. Some of the older neighbors had
passed along the stories, and for weeks after the new owners moved in, in
1973, they daubed away at the paint, searching.



The Irish Times 5/7/01
Garda Arms Crisis files not to be released
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/newsfeatures/2001/0505/nfea7.htm

by Mark Hennessy
Top-secret files held on the 1970 Arms Crisis by the Garda, including the
original handwritten notes of witness interviews, will not be released to
any new inquiry into the affair, The Irish Times has learned.
Currently the Taoiseach's Department, the Department of Justice, the Chief
State Solicitor's Office, the Office of the Attorney General and the Garda
are each trawling their own files.



The Observer 5/6/01
Wilde's sex life exposed in explicit court files
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,486663,00.html

by Vanessa Thorpe and Simon de Burton
Explicit documents prepared for the Oscar Wilde libel case have come to
light, offering a revealing new glimpse of the double life led by the
celebrated Irish writer.
The shocking witness statements, previously unseen, were drawn up by
employees at Day Russell of the Strand, solicitors for the defence in
Wilde's disastrous 1895 legal action against the Marquis of Queensberry.
Most of the papers were filed away and never used in court.



Portland Press Herald 5/6/01
Tribal rift with state intensifies
http://www.portland.com/news/state/010506indianwater.shtml

by Bart Jansen
WASHINGTON - Water disputes between Indian tribes in Maine and several
private paper companies have exposed a profound and growing rift in the
relationship worked out a generation ago between the tribal and state
governments.
Unrelated action in two legal cases last week spanned subjects as diverse as
wastewater regulation and public access to government information. But the
common thread was a tribal distrust for state water regulators and a
preference common among tribes across the rest of the country for dealing
with federal authorities.




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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