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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 5/27/01
Arkansas' visual history leaps into future, onto Net
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/sun/ark/B1xhistory27.asp
by Linda S. Caillouet
Genealogists and historians searching for the faces of Arkansans -- from
barbers and baseball players to Central High students and even Civil War
soldiers -- soon will have more than 13,000 images they can search from the
convenience of their computer.
Some of Arkansas' most vivid, visual history will be just a mouse-click
away.


Bergen Record 5/27/01
Board fined in records lawsuit
http://www.bergen.com/bse/finesh200105273.htm
by Shannon D. Harrington
A Superior Court judge Friday ordered the Lyndhurst Board of Education to
pay $500 to three government watchdogs it unsuccessfully sued last year in a
public records dispute.
While school officials said the amount was insignificant, an attorney for
the three called it a symbolic victory.


Bergen Record 5/26/01
The Record seeks ruling on police data
http://www.bergen.com/bse/hackcops200105263.htm
by Peter Pochna
The Record has asked state law enforcement officials to intercede in a
dispute between the newspaper and Hackensack Police Chief Charles "Ken" Zisa
over requirements governing the release of public records.
Hackensack police regularly violate those requirements by withholding
information from The Record, an attorney for the newspaper said Thursday in
a letter to the state Division of Criminal Justice.


Contra Costa Times 5/16/01
Millions of visitors clog Ellis Island Web site in first weeks
http://www.contracostatimes.com/computing/stories/x16ellis_20010516.htm
by Donna Gehrke White
Knight Ridder Newspapers
MIAMI -- The Rev. Robert J. Maulella of suburban Miami still can't get over
the joy of logging onto an intensely popular Internet site to discover the
Italian immigrant grandfather he never knew.
In Hollywood, Fla., Susan Heiblum still hasn't gotten through to
www.ellisislandrecords.org/ to piece together the story of her late mother
coming to America as a 6-year-old fleeing the pogroms of Russia with her
Jewish family in the early 20th century.


Contra Costa Times 5/22/01
Oakland's history 'expert' to retire
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/stories_news/m22realsturm_20010522.htm
by Aaron Graff
"There's no such thing as an expert on local history," says Bill Sturm of
the Oakland History Room. "There's always someone who knows more."
Sturm would know. As librarian for the room, housed in the Oakland Public
Library's main branch, he has the history of the city at his fingertips.


Chicago Tribune 5/29/01
Historical societies help dig for roots
Groups don't stop at vital statistics
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0105290213,00.htm
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by Sandra Del Re
Special to the Tribune
When Chris Wille hit a snag in her genealogy research, she looked to a
resource most people don't immediately think of: the Palatine Township
Historical Society.
The Madison, Wis., woman was trying to locate a South Side Cemetery in
Palatine, where a relative was supposedly buried in 1932.
"I cannot find this cemetery listed anywhere," she wrote in a letter to the
historical society.
Little did she know the cemetery has had three different names, which
explained why she was having such a hard time.


Chicago Sun Times 5/29/01
Skater 'supported' by E. German secret police
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/witt29.html
Associated Press
BERLIN--Katarina Witt was "significantly supported" by former East Germany's
secret police, according to the government agency that controls the Stasi
files.
A lawyer for the star figure skater last week asked a Berlin court for a
temporary injunction blocking the release of her Stasi file to journalists.


Daily Yomiuri 5/29/01
Museum solves folding screen mystery
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010529wo61.htm
A folding screen depicting buildings in the Ryukyu Kingdom (now Okinawa
Prefecture) and trade ships owned by the Satsuma clan (in present Kagoshima
Prefecture) was produced by artists from Edo (now Tokyo) at the end of the
Edo period (1603-1868), according to the museum that owns the work.


Dallas Morning News 5/29/01
Residents question own Fate
Historians not sure how town got name
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/379582_fatename_29met.html
by Michael E. Young
FATE - Could it be Fate's fate to forever debate the way it obtained its
eye-catching name?
For the folks in this friendly little town, debate might be a bit strong to
describe the differing origins of Fate's moniker. But there are at least two
versions of the story, or as Fate native Jo Leonard put it, "Two tales of a
city."


Dallas Morning News 5/29/01
Lawmakers tighten access to records
Measure would end public's right to obtain certain criminal reports
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/379680_open_29tex.ART.html
by Pete Slover
AUSTIN - The recent Texas trend has favored closing government records,
especially those that reveal personal information - with one exception.
Criminal records have been easier and easier to get.


Lincoln Journal-Star 5/29/01
Power probes trip over each other
http://www.journalstar.com/nation?story_id=4712&past=
by John Howard
Orange County Register
California investigators pore over records looking for price-gouging,
wrongdoing
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Detectives would seem to be tripping over each other to
discover who did what to whom, and why, in California's energy crisis.


Los Angeles Times 5/29/01
Logs link payments with radio airplay
http://www.latimes.com/business/20010529/t000044865.html
by Chuck Philips
For 40 years, federal law has prohibited broadcasters from accepting money
or anything of value in exchange for playing songs on the radio without
disclosing the practice to listeners.
But internal documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times indicate that
several independent promoters keep detailed logs--called "banks"--listing
the date a station airs a song followed by a dollar amount collected from
the artist's label. The stations that add the most songs over the course of
a year build the biggest banks and consequently earn the largest fees.


Los Angeles Times 5/29/01
Withheld evidence can give convicts new life
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010529/t000044859.html
by Richard A. Serrano
WASHINGTON--On the morning of the Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, 1995, the
U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion sharply criticizing police and
prosecutors in Louisiana for not turning over key material in the trial of a
man sentenced to death for murder.


Ottawa Citizen 5/29/01
PM builds legal maze, bogs down access case
Government files 15 proceedings to keep records under wraps
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010529/5071039.html
by Glen McGregor
Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Defence Minister Art Eggleton have launched
a legal ground war against access to Mr. Chretien's daily agenda books and
notes from high-level Defence Department meetings.
Although Information Commissioner John Reid won an important court ruling in
March that gave him the right to see the records, the government has
responded with a flurry of litigation in Federal Court to limit and control
that access.


New York Times 5/27/01
And now, a case for the forensic accountant
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/business/27FORE.html?searchpv=site02
by Jonathan D. Glater
Something struck Paul Morsen as odd about a trash hauler's request that the
Central Contra Costa Sanitary District approve higher rates for customers to
keep it out of bankruptcy.
After all, just weeks earlier, this trash hauler, Orinda-Moraga Disposal
Service Inc., said it could lower the cost of collecting garbage for
customers.


Orange County Register 5/23/01
Web called a prescription for medical record leakage
http://www.ocregister.com/health_fitness/eprivacy00523cci3.shtml
by M.A.J. McKenna
Cox News Service
With patients leading health care onto the Internet - and doctors and
hospitals following close behind - many wonder: Just how secure is all the
information being put into electronic form?


Pittsburg Post-Gazette 5/29/01
Frick archive talks fail
http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20010529frickweb3.asp
by Marylynne Pitz
Descendants of Helen Clay Frick appeared in Orphans' Court today to meet
with Judge Lee Mazur, but four hours of negotiations failed to settle a
16-month dispute over where the family will preserve and store its valuable
archives.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 5/29/01
State leadership accounts kept 'secret', spent for campaign services
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010528leadership2.asp
by John M.R. Bull
HARRISBURG -- Desperate to win control of the state House, Democrats started
gearing up last summer for a titanic election clash in November.
Political consultants were hired. Pollsters were put on the payroll. Phone
banks were set up.


Reason 5/25/01
Numbers racket
Why do we need a national identifier?
http://www.reason.com/hod/sm052501.html]
by Sam MacDonald
"I think we have ourselves a real political problem."
Thus lamented Rep. Mac Collins (R-Ga.) after a mixed bag of hapless
identity-theft victims, privacy experts, Social Security bigwigs, and
lobbyists from the powerful financial industry testified for almost three
hours before the House Subcommittee on Social Security this Wednesday. The
hearing was the latest round in the decades-long fight over the proper use
of that nine-digit nightmare, the Social Security number.


Tampa Tribune 5/28/01
History of the House Part I
http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAMU3GLBNC.html
by Daniel Ruth
Could there possibly be a more fitting tribute to the history of the Florida
House of Representatives than $400,000 flushed down the toilet with less
accountability than ``The Producers'' bookkeeping for ``Springtime For
Hitler''?
In late 1999, then Republican Speaker John Thrasher authorized the nearly
half-million-dollar ``Archival Project'' to capture for posterity the
history of the Florida House, a tale somewhere between ``Debbie Does
Tallahassee'' and ``The Omen.''


The Daily Telegraph 5/29/01
Truth and Justice
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=002830376029449&rtmo=lnFnQAot&atmo=HHH
H22NL&pg=/01/5/29/dl02.html
MEMBERS of the Royal British Legion voted by a large majority yesterday
against changing the military records of the servicemen shot at dawn for
cowardice during the First World War.


The Daily Telegraph 5/29/01
Legions rules deserters did not 'die in action'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002549632124328&pg=/et/01/5/29/nlegi29.html
by Bess Twiston Davies
MEMBERS of the Royal British Legion voted yesterday against changing the
military records of 306 soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion in the
First World War to say that they died in action.
More than half of the 700 delegates attending the British Legion's annual
conference in Bournemouth opposed the move, which had been suggested by the
Shard End No 1 branch in Birmingham.


The Daily Telegraph 5/30/01
Archive reveals secrets behind Churchill bunker
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=qKdttts9&atmo=qKdttts9
&pg=/et/01/5/30/nbunk30.html
by Will Bennett
Art Sales Correspondent
AN extraordinary clandestine operation to set up the bunker from which Sir
Winston Churchill led Britain during the Second World War is revealed in an
archive of documents to be auctioned next month.


The Cabin 5/27/01
Judge dismisses FOI lawsuit to see Clinton records
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/052701/sta_0527010055.shtml
by Peggy Harris
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK -- Ivian C. Smith, the former FBI agent in charge of the Little
Rock office, lost a bid Friday to view Arkansas State Police records used by
the Whitewater prosecutor in the investigation of former President Bill
Clinton.


Toledo Blade 5/26/01
Access to government information is a must
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010526&Kate
gori=OPINION03&Lopenr=105260046&Ref=AR
by Victor Goode
The struggle to access meaningful information is an important aspect of
democratic citizen participation. The challenge occurs in many contexts.
Consider the Cincinnati riot. A recent Blade article suggested that the
difference in responses of blacks in Toledo in 1999 and blacks in Cincinnati
in 2001 to killings by police could be explained by the greater access to
information, following the shootings, provided by the city of Toledo. I
disagree.


Tacoma News-Tribune 4/5/01
House Oks fax privacy act for medical records
http://www.tribnet.com/frame.asp?/news/legislature/0405b42.html
Associated Press
Does Kathy Ellis have your medical records?
She doesn't work at a doctor's office or hospital. But soon after hooking up
her home fax machine, Ellis started receiving reams of personal, supposedly
confidential medical records.


WorldNetDaily 5/29/01
Armey decries universal medical Ids
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23005
by Jon Dougherty
House Majority Leader and Texas Republican Dick Armey has written Health and
Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, criticizing Clinton-era guidelines
that he said strongly suggested the agency is preparing to issue universal
medical identification numbers.


Washington Post 5/29/01
The case against absolute privacy
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A89273-2001May28.html
by Scott McNealy
Any company that doesn't properly safeguard people's personal information
will suffer the same fate as a bank that doesn't safeguard people's money.
It will go out of business. But privacy is not always desirable -- and
absolute privacy is a disaster waiting to happen.


BusinessWire 5/29/01
Canonical XML specification becomes W3C recommendation with PureEdge
Authorship
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010529/0003.html
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001--PureEdge Solutions, a leading
provider of transaction security products and services, announced its
support for the Canonical XML 1.0 Recommendation produced by the World Wide
Web (W3C) Consortium.


Associated Press 5/29/01
Earnhardt widow seeks injunction
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010529/sp/car_earnhardt_autopsy_photos_1.h
tml
by Mike Schneider
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Lawyers for the widow of Dale Earnhardt urged a judge
Tuesday to keep an injunction in place barring the public release of the
race driver's autopsy photos.


ZDNet News 5/29/01
Worm tracks down child porn
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010529/tc/worm_tracks_down_child_porn_1.ht
ml
by Wendy McAuliffe
The relatively benign 'Noped' worm, released in the UK, searches for child
porn images and notifies police if it finds a potential match.
An e-mail virus that seeks out images of child pornography on systems
running Microsoft Windows and alerts government agencies to positive
findings, has been released by hackers intent on cleaning up the Internet.







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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