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RAIN 8/23: $510k, Cohasset, P&G paperless, Kerouac archives



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BBC News 8/22/01
Government 'snoop law' stance slammed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1335000/1335963.stm

by Mark Ward
The UK Government has been accused of deceiving the public over proposals to
keep long term records of electronic communications.
An internet think tank claims the Government is guilty of "duplicity" by
lobbying for the law change in Europe, yet denying it was seeking such
sweeping powers in public statements.
It follows revelations by the monitoring organisation Statewatch that the
European Union (EU) is proposing to create data warehouses that would store
records of almost every electronic message sent by citizens.


Boston Globe 8/2201
British regulator fines PaineWebber
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/234/economy/British_regulator_fines_PaineW:.
shtml

Associated Press
LONDON (AP) Britain's financial regulator imposed a $510,000 fine on
PaineWebber International Ltd. on Wednesday for lacking proper controls to
prevent money laundering.
The Securities and Futures Authority, which is part of Britain's Financial
Services Authority, said that ''no instances of money laundering have been
identified'' but it still felt compelled to ''severely reprimand'' the
brokerage firm for exposing itself and its customers to risk.



Carroll County Times 8/19/01
State establishes deadline for county to reveal just what property it owns
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2241237&BRD=1289&PAG=461&dept_id=1
56627&rfi=6

by Lauren King
By the end of 2002, the state expects to receive a comprehensive list of
land, buildings and other facilities owned by each Maryland county.
This is bad news for counties such as Carroll, which have not yet compiled
such a list.
The state is now requiring this comprehensive listing, in addition to each
county's annual financial report, to obtain a more complete picture of each
jurisdiction's financial holdings. But in Carroll County, the government is
aware of its own financial holdings primarily on a department-by-department
basis. Officials in each department know about the properties for which they
are responsible, but this knowledge doesn't necessarily overlap into other
departments.


News24 8/22/01
Cell records to trace student?
http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/0,1113,2-7-831_1069349,
00.html

SAPA
Durban - Police investigating the disappearance of a 20-year-old American
exchange student from Durban earlier this month have requested her cellphone
records from the MTN network provider in a bid to trace her.
Natasha Smalls was reported missing by the United States Consul-General in
Durban on August 7 after she failed to arrive home in Queens, New York on
August 2.
She had been an exchange student at the University of Natal for one semester
and had finished her course in political studies at the end of June.


Des Moines Register 8/22/01
Polk County to lower fees for copies
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/15665404.html

by Thomas Beaumont
Polk County agreed Tuesday to sharply reduce the fee the county recorder
charges for photocopies in its settlement of a lawsuit filed by The Des
Moines Register. The county also agreed to pay the newspaper's $5,000 legal
expenses.
The Register sued County Recorder Timothy Brien in June, accusing the office
that handles real estate documents of charging the public too much for
copies.
In the settlement, Brien agreed to lower the per-page fee for copies to 50
cents. The county also agreed to stop requiring people who want copies to
sign a log book, identifying themselves.



Florida Times Union 8/22/01
Housing officials criticized for poor record keeping
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082201/met_7011608.html

by P. Douglas Filaroski
An independent city agency that distributes money for affordable housing
kept such sloppy books city auditors could not always tell to whom the
agency had given loans or how much was owed.
City auditors criticized officials with the Duval County Housing Finance
Authority, saying they sometimes could not identify mortgage recipients, the
status of the loans or who was in charge of collecting payments.



Las Vegas Review Journal 8/22/01
Technicians checking millions of work card records
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Aug-22-Wed-2001/news/16825005.html

by Frank Geary
Clark County's computer technicians are wading through 10 million police
files to distinguish criminals, victims, dead people and others from casino
employees who are no longer required to carry a police-issued work card.
The computer excavation is the first step toward identifying the cost and
complexity of destroying the work card records for tens of thousands of
casino workers who no longer need the cards, Metropolitan Police Department
Deputy Chief Richard McKee told the County Commission Tuesday.



NewsFactor 8/22/01
Managing Computer Records: A liability minefield
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010822/tc/12730_1.html

by Robyn Weisman
Several high-profile cases, such as a recent one involving the apparent loss
of presidential election data from the computers of Florida secretary of
state Katherine Harris, underscore the potential legal consequences of not
having a sound electronics records management (ERM) policy.
Although the Harris fiasco raised immediate questions about her office's
credibility, analysts have noted that her case may be more an issue of
faulty procedure than political conspiracy. Robert Williams, president of
Cohasset Associates, a Chicago-based management-consulting firm that has
specialized in records management for over 30 years, called Harris's conduct
simply unprofessional.



Memphis Business Journal 8/20/01
Prestigious library taps Ole Miss for home
http://memphis.bcentral.com/memphis/stories/2001/08/20/newscolumn1.html

by Ed Hicks
OXFORD, Miss. -- The world's largest and most prestigious accounting library
collection arrived at The University of Mississippi Aug. 6 to be housed
permanently in the John Davis Williams Library.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' library is a
125,000-item collection that includes Pacioli's famous "Summa de
Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita," printed in Venice
in 1494.



Rocky Mountain News 8/22/01
Internet sheds light on lies
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_806731,00
.html

by Dick Foster
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg was fired last week
after admitting he lied about having worked for the CIA in Laos and fought
in Vietnam.
Donald Nicholson, the retired police chief of Amelia, Ohio, admitted his
stories of heroism in Vietnam were lies in 1999 after veterans exposed him.
Joe Mauk of Castle Rock, who said he was wounded 11 times and held as a
prisoner of war for more than two years while serving in Army Special Forces
in Vietnam, did none of those things, according to Army records.



The Financial Express 8/22/01
P&G decides to go paperless to save costs
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe20010822/stra5.html

by Namrata Singh in Mumbai
DID you know that if you are a large corporate entity, you could be spending
about Rs 15 lakh per annum to accommodate cartons and paper in your office?
Here's a clue on how this cost can be saved. Procter & Gamble Hygiene and
Healthcare (P&G) is going "paperless" as part of its new culture.


NANDO Times 8/22/01
New York Public Library acquires Jack Kerouac archives
http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/65108p-931597c.html

by Hillel Italie
Associated Press
NEW YORK (August 21, 2001 4:35 p.m. EDT) - It sounds like a surreal, old Bob
Dylan song: Pancho Villa playing center field for a 1930s team called the
Boston Fords, taking on such rivals as the Pittsburgh Plymouths and the St.
Louis Cadillacs.
But the history books and the record books will lead you nowhere. Villa
never bothered with the big leagues and the Fords and their fellow
franchises were only legends, roaming the mythic ballparks of a young Jack
Kerouac.





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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