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RAIN 8/02: Boston Public, Fla. voting records, Lay-off Rage



Boston Globe 8/01/01
Overdue book's return priceless
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/213/metro/Overdue_book_s_return_priceless+
.shtml

by Ellen Barry
Scot Cornwall was in his office at the Boston Public Library last Wednesday
when a young woman appeared in his doorway and handed him a book swathed in
tissue and bubble wrap.
As curator of book stacks and reader services, Cornwall is no stranger to
the sheepishness of patrons in the face of a long-overdue book. But this
time, what he found under the bubble wrap left him speechless.


Irish Independent 8/01/01
Minister right to deny newspapers access to school records, court rules
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=484616&issue_id=
4982

THE Minister for Education does not have to release information which would
allow newspapers to compile league tables of schools, according to a High
Court decision yesterday.


Amarillo Globe-News 8/01/01
California judge won't open files
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/080101/new_openfiles.shtml

by Jim McBride
California court records from Potter County's out-of-state probe into
alleged financial wrongdoing by suspended Tax Assessor-Collector Danny
Messer should remain sealed, a judge ruled.


Chicago Tribune 7/30/01
Libraries in lurch as microfilm flaws surface
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0107300149jul30.story?coll=ch
i%2Dnews%2Dhed

by Ron Grossman
The nation's librarians, popularly viewed as saintly protectors of books,
are under siege from critics who charge that in a rush to embrace modern
technology, they have purged many shelves of the invaluable raw materials of
America's history.


Chicago Tribune 8/01/01
City claims strip by Wrigley
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0107310160jul31.story?c
oll=chi%2Dnewslocalchicago%2Dhed

by Gary Washburn and Ray Gibson
Lawyers are seeking to determine whether a key strip of land adjacent to
Wrigley Field is owned by the city or Tribune Co., parent of the Chicago
Cubs, officials said Monday.


Chicago Tribune 8/01/01
Files erased in Florida
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0108010285aug01.story?coll=ch
i%2Dnewsnationworld%2Dhed

by Geoff Dougherty
Five months ago elections officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., turned their
attention from last year's controversial presidential balloting to the
spring election for dozens of municipal offices.


CRM Daily 7/31/01
Real-life 'sopranos' put Internet privacy on trial
http://www.crmdaily.com/perl/story/12382.html

by Jay Lyman
www.NewsFactor.com
In a New Jersey District Court case involving characters straight out of the
popular HBO TV series The Sopranos, about a Mafia family's activities,
technology is being put to the legal test as law enforcement seeks to
collect evidence while keeping its high-tech methods secret.


Christian Science Monitor 7/30/01
New help for the old problem of horse theft
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/30/p3s1.htm

by Kris Axtman
Back when the Wild West was being tamed and partitioned by the newly
invented "devil's rope," a man could be shot just for carrying a pair of
wire cutters in the pocket of his dungarees.
Officially, tampering with a barbed-wire fence was classified as a felony
offense. Unofficially, well, justice for rustlers was often meted out
outside the law.


Christian Science Monitor 7/30/01
Skulduggery among Russia's old bones
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/30/p1s3.htm

by Fred Weir
The faded Gothic building that houses Russia's scandal-ridden
Paleontological Institute is a musty labyrinth of dimly lit corridors that
sometimes end abruptly or plunge into a murky stairwell. Crowded along the
walls, cabinets bulge with fossils and jumbled heaps of ancient rock,
assorted skulls, and dinosaur bones. It is the perfect setting for a
whodunit.


Des Moines Register 8/1/01
Reporter quits in stutterers case
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780927/15467551.html

by Colleen Krantz
A California newspaper reporter has resigned over criticism that he did not
identify himself as a journalist when he did research about Iowa orphans who
were taught to stutter six decades ago.
The reporter, Jim Dyer, told editors at the San Jose Mercury News that he
would resign immediately, the newspaper reported Monday.


Tribune-Chronicle 8/1/01
Evidence at issue in Rep's trial
http://www.tribunechronicle.com/news/story/08-01_traf.asp

by Raymond L. Smith
CLEVELAND - The U.S. Attorney's office is seeking to prevent U.S. Rep. James
A. Traficant Jr. from releasing to the media certain evidence that may be
used against him at trial.


Washtech.com 8/01/01
Facial ID systems raising concerns about privacy
http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/11586-1.html

by Robert O'Harrow Jr
A company that touts its facial identification system as a powerful new tool
for security and crime fighting has received millions of dollars in federal
funding to improve its surveillance technology for military and intelligence
uses, according to documents and interviews.


The Advocate 8/01/01
Foster to give ACLU documents on plan to help nonpublic schools
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=23451

by Will Sentell and Michelle Millhollon
Gov. Mike Foster's office agreed Tuesday to release records on a $3 million
state program that will provide preschool services at nonpublic schools for
600 4-year-olds from low-income families in Orleans Parish.


Boston Herald 8/01/01
Frank flays bureau spying
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/fran07312001.htm

by Kay Lazar
Calling it an ``unhappy chapter'' in U.S. history, Massachusetts congressman
Barney Frank is demanding public reassurance that the FBI has halted a
widespread program of spying on Americans.


Globetechnology.com 8/01/01
ON-line medical records not always the best medicine
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechno
logy/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=TR1
BIZ&date=20010801

by Douglas McArthur
Travellers who store their personal medical records on the Internet hope to
be rewarded for their foresight should they become sick or injured far from
home.
The theory is that if a medical crisis strikes in Tirana or Taipei or
Timbuktu, they simply give their on-line password to the closest doctor, and
presto, their medical history appears electronically. There is no shortage
of companies offering to post your illnesses, allergies and surgeries on a
supposedly secure Internet site.


Refrigerated Transporter 7/01/01
Data logger records temperature with precision
http://www.industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?magazineid=128&releaseid=68
65&magazinearticleid=114526&siteid=26

Telatemp Corp has introduced the MicroPOINT 1, which can record 32,000-plus
time-stamped temperature measurements with a 0.1° resolution. The MicroPOINT
1 can automatically compute the Mean Kinetic Temperature for any record
produced during a temperature-monitoring period.



Registered Representative 8/1/01
Legal: beware you best customer
http://www.industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?magazineid=156&releaseid=68
64&magazinearticleid=114471&siteid=5

by David Bartholomew
Brokers tend to drop their guards with their best clients. But when a
problem arises, the client turns on the broker.


Journal-Sentinel 8/1/01
All's fair for archivist, historian Zimmerman
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul01/five01073101a.asp

Q. A lot of people are a little bit confused. Why is the state celebrating
the 150th year of the fair as opposed to the 150th fair?
A. The first Wisconsin fair was in 1851. The confusion for some comes
because we missed five fairs, but that is as strong a part of the history of
the fair as the other 145 years. Three years were because of the Civil War.
One was for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The local
state fair officials figured the competition would be too strong and rather
than take a chance on low attendance, they canceled the fair. One was in
1945 for World War II. It was a wartime request by the Office of War
Transportation.


Los Angeles Times 8/01/01
Fla. Ballot files may be gone
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-palm-beach-ballots0801au
g01.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

by Ken Thomas
Associated Press
MIAMI -- Election officials in Palm Beach County may have wiped out computer
files showing how each ballot was punched during last year's disputed
presidential election.


Kansas City Star 8/1/01
Lewis and Clark slept here - or did they? Now we know
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3accdc40.731,.html

by Sophia Maines
Many Missouri towns claim that Lewis and Clark forged through their area on
the explorers' famous trek across the American frontier.
It turns out some of those towns are wrong.


Associated Press 8/01/01
Public documents are public, attorney general rules
http://www.neworleans.net/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n25
02_BC_LA--PublicRecords&&news&newsflash-louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Even if public officials or employees think
repeated requests for public documents constitute harassment and are
inconvenient, they still must hand over the documents to the person or group
that asked for them, Attorney General Richard Ieyoub's office said.


10ChannelNews 8/01/01
Newspapers' experts poised to gain access to Harris' computers
http://www.wtsp.com/news/2001_08/01_harris_computers.htm

TALLAHASSEE - Computer data recovery experts working for a group of Florida
newspapers were set Wednesday to begin looking at two computers used in
Secretary of State Katherine Harris' office.


New York Times 8/01/01
Employers maintaining vigilance in the face of layoff rage
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/01/business/01SABO.html?0801inside

by Eve Tahmincioglu
Juval Aviv, a private investigator in New York, had lunch in April with a
man he suspected of sabotaging one of his client's computer systems, causing
up to $20 million in damage and indefinitely delaying a long-planned public
stock offering.


Staten Island Advance 8/01/01
Comptroller subpoenas bus records
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xs
l?/base/news/99667440555291.xml

by Heidi Singer
Saying he wants to ensure that the controversial Atlantic Express Coachways
bus deal was appropriate and lawful, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi issued a
subpoena late last week demanding the Giuliani administration turn over the
contracts and related paperwork for scrutiny.


Dallas Morning News 6/23/01
Cross the language barrier
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lloydbockstruck/400363_tree_
23liv.ART.html

by Lloyd Bockstruck
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, affirm:
"Eliminate the impossible, and whatever remains ­ however impossible, must
be the answer." That principle sometimes works in genealogy. It may also be
applied to difficult passages in historical handwritten records.


Dallas Morning News 7/07/01
Put customs records to use
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lloydbockstruck/412299_tree_
07liv.ART.html

by Lloyd Bockstruck
When the U.S. Customs Service was organized, it had regional customs houses.
In 1819, the captain of each vessel arriving at a port in the United States
was required to submit a list of passengers to the collector of customs at
each of the ports. Each collector of customs retained the lists.


Clayton County News Daily 8/01/01
$30 million for archives in Morrow
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2159608&BRD=1099&PAG=461&dept_id=9
9012&rfi=6

by David Nordan
nProject clears Appropriations Committee, awaits action by Senate
With both U. S. Sen. Max Cleland and Rep. Mac Collins scrambling to claim
credit, a proposed $30.5 million for the new federal Southeast Archives
Center next to Clayton College and State University has moved a step closer
to reality.


Oshkosh Northwestern 8/01/01
P.I. turns cyber-sleuth
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/local/080101-4.html

by Alex Hummel
Anyone you know, even a soccer dad, could be a cybercrook.
Just ask Natalie Pratt.
The 35-year-old Oshkosh operator of Midwest Investigative Consultants is one
of maybe two or three private investigators in the state hunting down and
exposing a growing number of Internet criminals.


Wichita Eagle 8/1/01
Judge rules today on access to documents in Carr case
http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/08/01/crimecourts/0801
seal_txt.htm

by Ron Sylvester
Chief Judge Paul Buchanan will reconvene court this morning and is expected
to rule on arguments Tuesday over whether to maintain a seal on some of the
records in Wichita's latest capital murder case. Chief Judge Paul Buchanan
will reconvene court this morning and is expected to rule on arguments
Tuesday over whether to maintain a seal on some of the records in Wichita's
latest capital murder case.



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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