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Austin Business Journal 7/2/01
Paperless offices: 21st century fact or fiction?
http://austin.bcentral.com/austin/stories/2001/07/02/focus3.html

by Shelley Bueche
The paperless office appears to remain more fiction than fact at the sunrise
of the 21st century. Yes, even in Austin -- one of the most wired cities in
the United States. The modern work force has entered an era of storing data
electronically and scanning files onto computer memory cards.


Sacramento Bee 7/2/01
Controller releases unedited power contracts
http://www.sacbee.com/news/beelive/show_story.cgi?power

AP
State Controller Kathleen Connell released unedited versions of $43 billion
worth of long-term energy contracts with 27 power generators on Monday,
including several short-term deals whose release the Davis administration
warned could drive up prices.


Computer User 7/2/01
Pursuing the paperless office
http://currents.net/articles/2007,3,6,1,0701,01.html

by Nelson King
Don't you dare make a copy of this page. Don't you know that we've been
planning to have a paperless office--if not a paperless world--for more than
a decade? People have said this is a barometer of civilization; that we will
spare our forests by becoming accustomed to digital visualization. I think
they mean that in the future we'll read the morning paper on a computer
screen at the kitchen table. Imagine, if you will, what this would be like.



Computer User 7/2/01
Toppling the Tower of Babel
http://currents.net/articles/2007,5,14,1,0701,01.html

by Matt Lake
The civil-engineering school at my college used to claim that the language
schools owed them, big time. Resisting the urge to criticize their use of
the expression "big time" at the end of a sentence, we linguists took them
to task. "Oh, yeah?" we sneered. "Prove it!" And they did, by pointing to
the Tower of Babel.



Connecticut Post 7/2/01
Preserving pages of Trumbull history
http://www.connpost.com/S-ASP-Bin/ReformatSQLIndex.ASP?puid=6773&spuid=6773&;
Indx=954288&Article=ON&id=65646091&ro=9

by Genevieve Reilly
TRUMBULL -- This may be the age of computers and paperless transactions, but
for the Town Clerk's Office, land records are considered sacred.
Those record books date back to the first deeds issued in town, and they
need to be preserved.
To help safeguard the documents, the town is seeking a $5,000 grant from the
State Library.



Detroit News 7/02/01
Ford wins three victories in employee discrimination suit
http://www.detnews.com/2001/autos/0107/02/autos-241992.htm

by Ed Garsten
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. won a motion Friday to prevent sensitive personnel
records from being publicized before the start of a trial in a
discrimination lawsuit filed by current and former employees.
Ford also won a motion to have confidential documents removed from another
legal brief related to the case.



Evansville Courier & Press 7/2/01
Data plans bring sticker shock
<http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200107/02+data070201_news.htm
l+20010702+news>

by Herb Marynell
Keeping local governments up-to-date in the computer information age
continues to be an 800-pound gorilla that no one is sure how to handle.
That's some of the frustration city and county councils and elected
officials have struggled with in recent years.



Los Angeles Times 6/28/01
DA agrees to save files on capital cases
http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/pasadena_metro/20010628/t000053574.h
tml

by Henry Weinstein
Culminating a lengthy legal battle, the Los Angeles County district
attorney's office has agreed to preserve indefinitely all files dealing with
death penalty cases or cases that result in life sentences, according to
settlement documents obtained Wednesday by The Times.


Houston Business Journal 6/29/01
Local online obituary publisher lands $7.5 million funding deal
http://houston.bcentral.com/houston/stories/2001/07/02/story6.html

by Jennifer Darwin
Houston-based Final Arrangements announced last week that it has raised $7.5
million in its third round of funding.
Final Arrangements is the parent company of Arrangeonline.com, which
operates the National Obituary Archive and is the world's largest publisher
of obituaries and death records. The Web site allows individuals to search
the archives, offer their own tributes, send flowers and get information on
funeral services.


New York Times 7/02/01
City's history rewritten from Muncipal Archives
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/02/nyregion/02ARCH.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Glenn Collins
Of all the remarkable things about New York City's Municipal Archives, the
most extraordinary, by far, is its very survival.
The collection - three million pounds of material, ranging from the original
1654 Dutch sales slip for the purchase of Coney Island, to a trove of
stereoscopic Victorian pornography assembled by an antivice crusader - has
weathered centuries of profound neglect. It has been appallingly lodged in a
succession of makeshift spaces, including a city pier and the attic of a
fire-prone pizza parlor.


New York Times 7/2/01
Document sheds light on Holocaust
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-US-Nazis.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The West may have been informed about Nazi Germany's
plans for the Holocaust months earlier than previously thought.
``It has been decided to eradicate all the Jews,'' says a newly declassified
document believed to have been obtained by British and American intelligence
by March 1942.



The Oregonian 7/2/01
Kroeker defends purging of police complaints
http://www.oregonlive.com/public_safety/oregonian/index.ssf?/public_safety/o
regonian/lc_21purge02.frame

by Maxine Bernstein
Police Chief Mark Kroeker said he will continue the Portland Police Bureau's
long-standing policy of purging certain internal affairs cases, including
sustained complaints against officers, despite a request by the city auditor
to change it.
Kroeker said he thoughtfully evaluates officers' requests to remove
complaints or internal affairs cases from their files and destroy them. He
said he will do so if the officer does not show a pattern of problems.



Ottawa Citizen 7/2/01
Complaints system baffles Indian Affairs
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010702/5039792.html

by Rick Mofina
The government's fledgling system of tracking allegations of wrongdoing
among First Nations is contending with how to define the tips it receives,
internal Indian Affairs documents suggest.
The Records of Allegations and Complaints System concerns any information
received by Indian Affairs "alleging/ complaining of wrongdoing of some
type," according to documents obtained by the Citizen under the Access to
Information Act.



Santa Fe New Mexican 7/2/01
Consumer advocates want state to toughen proposed privacy rules
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2029583&BRD=2144&PAG=4
61&dept_id=367954&rfi=6

by Kristen Davenport
The attorney general's office and health-consumer advocates are worried that
proposed state privacy regulations are so lax that they would allow someone
providing car insurance to inquire whether a person had ever had a
particular disease.



Saint Petersburg Times 7/2/01
New law may shroud Pfizer deal
http://www.sptimes.com/News/070201/State/New_law_may_shroud_Pf.shtml

by Alisa Ulferts
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush had a bleeding Medicaid budget and an eye for
private industry innovation. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had an idea for
cutting health care costs and helping patients manage their diseases.
Bush and company representatives met at a Republican governors' conference
in Pasco County late last year.


Jacksonville Daily News 7/2/01
Stand on open government saluted
http://www.jdnews.com/stories/2001/07/02/news05.shtml

RALEIGH -- State Rep. Robert Grady, whose legislation to tighten
record-keeping requirements on closed government meetings sparked a lively
debate this spring, has been named as the 14th recipient of the William C.
Lassiter First Amendment Award.
The award, to be presented July 27 during the North Carolina Press
Association's 127th annual convention in Pinehurst, will honor the
Jacksonville lawmaker for his efforts and achievement in First Amendment
advocacy.



The Times 7/2/01
Becker faces jail over £13m tax bill
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001223347,00.html

by Allan Hall in Berlin
BORIS BECKER faces a possible prison sentence after a fan helped an
investigation into his tax affairs. The bill for Becker's unpaid taxes,
interest, fines and legal costs is expected to reach £13.3 million.



The Cabin 7/1/01
Judges submit amended order regarding sealed warrants
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/070101/sta_0701010039.shtml

AP
LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Arkansas say the public can inspect and copy the material in a
search warrant file unless the government files a motion to seal the file
within five days.
"If a motion to seal is filed, the miscellaneous warrant file must remain
sealed until the judge has ruled on the motion," the judges said. "The judge
must rule on any motion to seal within five working days after the motion is
filed."



Business Courier 7/2/01
Tight control of computers can stop fraud
http://cincinnati.bcentral.com/cincinnati/stories/2001/07/02/editorial3.html

by Jim Petro
Using safeguards to keep outsiders from getting into a computer system is a
no-brainer. Yet as an Ohio techical college sadly learned, the same control
must also apply to the "insiders."
Despite repeated warnings from this office in annual audits, the college
provided its controller too much access to financial software. A few years
ago we revealed she has stolen more than $1 million. The software access
oversight helped her to doctor financial records on her home computer and
conceal the theft.



USNEWS.com 7/9/01
Gone, but never to be forgotten
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010709/photography/holocaust.htm

by Dan Gilgoff
On a string of cool October nights in 1942, 22-year-old Norman Salsitz
slipped out of a labor camp in southern Poland clutching bundles of
photographs and documents from his hometown. By month's end, he had
surreptitiously stowed about 40 packages that together contained more than
400 pictures in the thatched straw roofs of nearby barns.



Wired 6/29/01
Did Kohl erase computer files?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37308,00.html

by Steve Kettman
BERLIN -- Closely mirroring the email woes that plagued the White House, a
German government scandal comes down to controversy over erased computer
files -- and a software company has even named data-erasing software after
former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Kohl, mired deep in scandal since admitting last December to accepting $1
million in donations for a party slush fund, testified before a
parliamentary hearing on Thursday in his first major effort at clearing his
name. He dismissed as "absurd" charges that his government had been
"corruptible."



Newsfactor.com 6/29/01
The boss is watching: workplace monitoring on the rise
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010629/tc/11634_1.html

by Lou Hirsh
Internet users are becoming increasingly aware of measures they can take to
ensure their privacy when using their home computers for e-mailing, Web
surfing and shopping. But the privacy landscape changes drastically when
people use technology on company time.
Faced with a slew of legal and competitive challenges in the digital age,
businesses are increasingly monitoring their employees' Internet usage and
computer files, in addition to recording their job performance. These
actions are completely legal for the most part, but privacy advocates say
safeguards are needed to ward off future abuses as the practice becomes more
pervasive.




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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