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RAIN 6/12: Records go digital



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Waco Tribune-Herald 6/11/01
Birth records index to be revamped
http://www.accesswaco.com/auto/feed/news/local/2001/06/10/992230923.05955.57
49.2688.html

by Christina Minor
After eight months, the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Texas is closer to
republishing a birth records index that was removed from its Web site late
last year.
The index, which was posted on the Texas Department of Health's site, was
removed after complaints it was used for adoption information. But bureau
officials are hoping to have an amended version operating by early next
year. The bureau is a division of the state health department.


Federal Computer Week 6/11/01
The search for answers
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0611/tec-search-06-11-01.asp

by Dan Carney
Nowhere is the challenge of data retrieval felt more keenly than in the
government, where information is the primary product of many federal
agencies.
"There has never been a market more tailor-made for a technology, because of
the amount of data the government has," said David Appelbaum, general
manager for North America at software developer Autonomy Inc., San
Francisco.


Federal Computer Week 6/11/01
Unlocking history at State
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0611/tec-search2-06-11-01.asp

by Dan Carney
The State Department's archives include more than 25 million records of
telegram e-mail messages to and from the department's field offices around
the world since 1973. The content ranges from the mundane - a 1975 record of
the embassy in Suriname receiving a new Dodge truck was an example shown
during a recent demonstration - to exotic, top-secret,
we'd-tell-you-but-we'd-have-to-kill-you stuff.



Seattle Post-Intelligencer 6/9/01
Frito-Lay seeks to seal records of tainted food
Consumers say they were not told of toxins found in sacks
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/26784_frito09.shtml

by Carol Smith
Over a four-year period, Frito-Lay Inc. received hundreds of complaints of
products smelling and tasting like gasoline, paint thinner, cleaning
solvents and other toxic contaminants, court records show.
The company is quickly moving to seal the records, including several
complaints from Washington and Oregon. Company tests confirmed the presence
of chemicals in many of the cases, but consumers contacted by the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer said they were not told of the test results.


The Guardian 6/10/01
Britain leads illicit trade in rare books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4201560,00.html

by Jason Burke
Ancient manuscripts and historic books worth millions of pounds are being
trafficked through Britain as criminals look for alternatives to high-risk
ventures such as armed robbery and drugs.
London has become a centre for the illicit trade with dozens of works being
recovered by police in recent months. Scotland Yard's Arts and Antiques
Squad is currently following up nine separate requests from overseas
detectives who have information that stolen literary works have been
smuggled to the UK.


International Herald Tribune 6/9/01
Chinese sexologist hopes new site will draw more crowds
http://www.iht.com/articles/22341.html

by Ching-Ching Ni
Los Angeles Times Service
Shanghai - The Communists did not shut it down. The free market did.
.China's first-ever sex museum was hemorrhaging money, so it closed shop
here after 20 months of showcasing some of the most splendid moments in the
country's bedroom history.


Inland Empire 6/11/01
Diary helps man follow in his father's footsteps
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/stories/061101/early11.shtml

by Mark Henry
Walter Thomas cleaned street lights for extra cash, took girlfriends to
vaudeville shows and struggled to make ends meet at the University of
Redlands.
Now, after more than 75 years, a diary found in an old steamer trunk has
provided a rare glimpse of university life in the 1920s through his eyes.

Yes the following two articles start out the same but there is additional
information in the second article

Cincinnati Enquirer 6/11/01
Lawmakers withhold files in school fund case
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/06/11/loc_lawmakers_withhold.html

Associated Press
COLUMBUS - Attorneys for the Legislature acknowledge that they are
withholding some documents on school funding requested by a coalition of
school districts.
They say the state Constitution allows lawmakers to keep the items
confidential, and they're not telling how many items are being held back or
what's in them.


The Tribune-Chronicle 6/11/01
Lawyers withholding documents
http://www.tribunechronicle.com/news/story/06-11_col.asp

COLUMBUS - Attorneys for the Legislature acknowledge that they are
withholding some documents on school funding requested by a coalition of
school districts.
They say the state Constitution allows lawmakers to keep the items
confidential, and they're not telling how many items are being held back or
what's in them.


South Florida Business Journal 6/11/01
Legislative moves imperil open government records
http://southflorida.bcentral.com/southflorida/stories/2001/06/11/editorial3.
html

by JP Bender
To hear some state legislators talk, nothing is more sacred than privacy ­
especially their own.
All over the nation, the people's representatives are busy toying to limit
access not only to their own records and deliberations, but to other forms
of government information.


Detroit Free Press 6/9/001
Media advocates foresee restrictions on access by public
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/foia9_20010609.htm

by Chris Christoff
Lansing Bureau Chief
LANSING -- A bill awaiting Gov. John Engler's signature would give medical
examiners more power to obtain private medical information in order to
investigate deaths, but it also could limit public and press access to
details about those inquiries.



Miami Herald 6/111/01
Coalition works to rescue centuries-old Cuba archives
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/carib/cuba/digdocs/041329.htm

by Paul Brinkley-Rogers
They are called the Notary Protocols, and to historians and lovers of
ancient manuscripts this vast, moldering record of life in Cuba dating to
1578 is a treasure of knowledge more precious than any hoard of Spanish
doubloons.
But the 10 million pages of the protocols -- which could shed light on early
settlement in Spanish Florida and on shipments of Africans sent to the
United States as slaves -- are housed in the non-air-conditioned National
Archives of Cuba in Havana where heat, humidity and insect attacks threaten
them.



New Jersey Online 6/11/01
Judge upholds law sealing Earnhardt autopsy photos
<http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?s0503_BC_C
AR--Earnhardt-Autops&&news&newsflash-sports>

Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A judge upheld a new Florida law on Monday that
was crafted to seal autopsy photos of racing legend Dale Earnhardt,
rejecting arguments that it unfairly prevented access to public information.



Mobile Register 6/11/01
No records kept on who flies in state planes
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Jun2001/10-a424180a.html

by Sallie Owen
State Sen. Vivian Davis Figures got caught in a bind when the Senate decided
to start work at 10 a.m. on May 15, the day of the school tax referendum in
Mobile County.
The early start could have kept Figures, D-Mobile, from casting a ballot,
since it was too late to vote absentee. But the governor's chief of staff
approved a state plane to fly her from Montgomery to Mobile and back, said
Carrie Kurlander, the governor's spokeswoman.



New York Times 6/11/01
IN Mexico, Publisher finds new players but old secrecy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/business/11MEXI.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Anthony DePalma
Monterrey, Mexico
>From this city on the edge of the desert, three generations of the Junco
family battled Mexico's powerful ruling party to run their newspaper, El
Norte, without government interference.
Finally, last year, Vicente Fox triumphed over the establishment to become
Mexico's first opposition president in more than seven decades, and
Alejandro Junco, the current publisher of El Norte and several other
newspapers, including Reforma in Mexico City, was delighted.



The Oklahoman 6/11/01
Germany's fraud fears delay war compensation
<http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=701109&pic=none&TP=getarti
cle>

by Burt Herman
Associated Press
BERLIN -- Encrypted e-mails flow into the newly painted offices of Germany's
slave labor foundation, listing victim after victim by name.
Meanwhile, 330 miles away in Warsaw, 68-year-old Wanda Krzemien gets in line
with her shreds of evidence to prove she was shipped to Nazi Germany as a
forced laborer.



Dallas Business Journal 6/8/01
Perot Systems suit aimed at IT disclosures
http://dallas.bcentral.com/dallas/stories/2001/06/11/story3.html

by Jeff Bounds
NORTH DALLAS -- Perot Systems has sued an unidentified individual for
disclosing what the company calls inside information on an Internet message
board about contract negotiations with West Coast health care companies.



Roll Call 6/11/01
Power shift leads to archives scramble
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/06/news0611h.html

by Polly Foster
Its name suggests a silent place that's barely lit and filled with musty
books. Yet for the past week, scores of people have been pouring through the
doors of the Senate Historical Office.
"It's been extremely busy," said Associate Senate Historian Don Ritchie.
"We've had delivery men coming in with handcarts carrying truckloads of
records."



The Spokesman-Review 6/11/01
Bytes of History
<http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=061101&ID=s975993&cat=se
ction.spokane>

by Richard Roesler
OLYMPIA -- Tucked away among thousands of documents in Olympia's bombproof
state archives is a technological oddity: reels of wire recordings from the
1930s.
Archivists think the grooved wires probably are audio records of
Depression-era hearings in the state House of Representatives. But no one's
sure.


The Times-Record 6/11/01
Court Documents could be online
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2001/June/11/news/CourtDocsOnline.html

by Terry Groover
If a Crawford County official gets her way, some official documents soon
could be available on the Internet. Crawford County Circuit Clerk Linda
Howard has proposed purchasing new computer equipment to allow land
information to be available online.



The Bakersfield Californian 6/11/01
Web-based company compiles property data
http://www.bakersfield.com/local/Story/505386p-503608c.html

by Chip Power
A local company is compiling data on Kern County's 350,000 individual
property parcels and making them available to the public -- for a fee.
Dolphin Safe Software, a local Web-based company, said it is expanding its
services on its KernData.com site to allow computer users, for a fee, to
review property records.



Wall Street Journal 6/11/01
Axelrad's new service hopes to eliminate VC's paper trail
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB992204909885655400.htm

by Lisa Branstein
It is ironical that what is making the technology revolution tick is paper.
When venture capitalists raise new funds to invest, they generally need
reams of paper in the form of offering memorandums and partnership
agreements and other documents to seal the relationship between firm and
investor.


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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