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RAIN 6/06: Subpoenas, city histories, open records



There are 14 stories in this posting.

Jerusalem Post 5/31/01
It's all relative: Unlocking the door
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/05/31/JewishWorld/JewishWorld.27259.html

by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Keys to the Ellis Island Data Base

The genealogy community was happy to see the Ellis Island Data Base on line
<http://www.ellisislandrecords.org>, with its 22 million (17 million
immigrants) passenger arrival records.
However, researchers are frustrated with limited access due to heavy site
traffic, inefficient retrieval and editing, spelling problems and
transcription errors. A planned revised search system is not yet available.


New Vision 6/5/01
Makere cancels MPs degree
http://allafrica.com/stories/200106050001.html

by Felix Osike
Makerere University has cancelled a degree awarded to Ntungamo Woman MP
Naome Kabasharira in 1990, after investigations revealed that she used
forged papers for her admission.


EarthWeb 6/4/01
Email filtering: The real deal
http://webdeveloper.earthweb.com/websecu/article/0,,12013_777631,00.html

by Kurt Seifried
Security Portal
Email is probably my favorite Internet related service. It's also the one
that causes me the most problems, with regard to security. People cannot
live without email anymore. Email is probably the most convenient form of
communication for most of us. It's an easy way to figure out whether the
person you want to phone in Australia is awake or not. Email also allows us
to easily send files, from simple text documents to spreadsheets -- images
to video clips. There are extremely few companies and organizations in the
world that have an Internet connection but do not use email. Because of
this, most Internet spam is now delivered by email, and more importantly,
most viruses are now spread via email.



Gadsden Time 6/5/01
George Wallace's speech to go to state archives
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/wallace65.html

by Dana Beyerle
MONTGOMERY - An official copy of the speech a defiant Gov. George Wallace
gave in a doorway of a building at the then-segregated University of Alabama
in 1963 in a staged protest of the entrance of two black students will be
given to the state archives on Monday.


Tuscaloosa News 6/5/01
Wallace's 'schoolhouse door' speech will be donated to Alabama archives
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/6899newsarchivedstorypage.html

by Dana Beyerle
Montgomery Bureau
MONTGOMERY - The official copy of the speech that a defiant Gov. George
Wallace gave in a doorway of a building at the then-segregated University of
Alabama in 1963 to protest the entrance of two black students will be given
to the Alabama state archives on Monday.


Houston Chronicle 6/5/01
Encryption company lands more financing
Confidential document firm will add to staff
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/930323

by Tom Fowler
Houston-based DataCert has landed its second round of venture funding, a $5
million sum from package-delivery company UPS, the private-equity investment
firm owned by businessman Bob McNair, and other investors.
DataCert President and Chief Executive Officer Eric Elfman said the funds
will be used to double the company's staff from 25 employees to more than
50, and help it expand into new industries.


Seatlle Post-Intelligencer 6/3/01
Judge rules no access to Yates' records
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/25827_yates03ww.shtml

Associated Press
TACOMA -- The Pierce County Sheriff's Department does not have to give a
Tacoma newspaper access to its records of an investigation into serial
killer Robert Yates, a judge has ruled.
Superior Court Judge John McCarthy issued the written ruling Friday in
response to a lawsuit filed by The News Tribune, which argued the documents
on Robert L. Yates were public.


Tampa Tribune 6/5/01
Junk-mailing creditors hope you'll trash your own privacy
http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAGNJORKNC.html

by Gene Marlow
WASHINGTON - You probably thought it was junk mail and pitched it.
Too bad. Those letters from banks and credit card and mortgage companies
promising to protect your financial privacy are not junk.
They are time bombs. Unless you reply, the financial institutions can sell
everything they know about you:


Daily Southtown 6/5/01
Librarian garners humanities award for keeping tabs on time
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsliving/051ld2.htm

by Mary Mitchell
A stroll through Chicago Heights is more than a trip down memory lane for
resident Barbara Paul.
It's her life's work.
Paul has been administrative librarian for the Chicago Heights Free Public
Library since 1967. In that time, she and others have collected quite a bit
of city's history.


Modesto Bee 6/5/01
Records tell stories of Tuolumne history
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,272239,00.html

by Ron DeLacy
SONORA -- From Gold Rush shooting deaths to citizenship applications, poll
taxes to property assessments, lawsuits to pension requests by Mexican War
veterans' survivors, thousands of official Tuolumne County records have a
new home.


Daily Review 6/5/01
Paintmakers under investigation
Justice Department looks at charges of price-fixing
<http://www.dailyreview-ang.com/S-ASP-Bin/Ref/Index.asp?PUID=132&Indx=910252
>

Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON -- DuPont Co. and other leading paintmakers are under
investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for price-fixing in the
automotive-refinishing industry.
As part of its probe, the Justice Department has subpoenaed documents from
DuPont, Sherwin-Williams Co., PPG Industries Inc. and BASF AG. Akzo Nobel NV
has also been subpoenaed, according to the Wall Street Journal.


Los Angeles Times 6/5/01
Panel OKs Subpoenas for Energy Companies
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010605/t000046846.html

by Carl Ingram and Miguel Bustillo
SACRAMENTO--The Senate Rules Committee agreed Monday to issue subpoenas to
eight out-of-state power generating companies demanding documents on
pricing, bidding and other aspects of electricity sales in the state.


Los Angeles Times 6/5/01
Ruling favors accessing mental health records
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/20010605/t000046899.html

In a decision benefiting prosecutors statewide, the state Supreme Court on
Monday ruled that the Ventura County district attorney's office has a legal
right to access the mental health records of suspected sexually violent
predators.


Los Angeles Times 6/4/01
William Buchanan; Publisher of declassified documents
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010604/t000046650.html

by Bart Barnes
Washington Post
WASHINGTON--William Walter Buchanan, a former Central Intelligence Agency
officer who later made a career as publisher of top-secret declassified
government documents, has died of cancer. He was 74.
Buchanan died May 21 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia.

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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