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RAIN 8/24: Replevin, Expungement and open records



There are 24 stories in this posting.

Boston Globe 8/23/01
98 items seized from Russian ship
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/235/metro/98_items_seized_from_Russian_shi
p+.shtml

by Colin Nickerson and Brian MacQuarrie
St. John's, Newfoundland -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in three
exhaustive searches of the M.T. Virgo, have seized 98 items that US
authorities hope will prove the Russian tanker sank the trawler Starbound in
a collision that killed three New England fishermen.


Florida Times Union 8/23/01
CALL BOX: Readers concerned about obtaining medical records
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082301/met_7006847.html

Dear Call Box: I have been attempting over the last six months to get
medical records from the national Diagnostic Center, which closed two
offices in this area about a year ago. The records were transferred to the
Tampa area. They have records of my mammograms, chest X-rays and EKGs. Isn't
it the law that they have to produce them? -- B.B.


New York Times 8/23/01
Clinton Library gets $8.4 million in 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/23/national/23CLIN.html?searchpv=nytToday

AP
Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 23 -- Donors gave $8.4 million last year to the
foundation planning former President Bill Clinton's presidential library,
documents released today indicated.
The foundation, the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, had $13.8
million in assets at the end of 2000, compared with $5.9 million in 1999.
The 2000 figures were from a form that the foundation submitted to the
Internal Revenue Service. They did not include pledges, and the donors were
not identified.



CIO 8/15/01
Concrete Ideas
http://www.cio.com/archive/081501/cement.html

by Simone Kaplan
YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT TO FIND a cement company in the pantheon of innovation
superheroes-shoulder-to-shoulder with those who created plastic, fiber
optics and Post-it notes. There are few industries more basic or old economy
than cement. Like Clark Kent's Superman though, the cement industry has an
alter ego that has shed its gray three-piece suit and can leap outdated
business practices in a single bound. That alter ego is Cemex, a nearly
100-year-old multinational cement corporation based in Monterrey, Mexico.
During the past 16 years, it has completely changed the processes by which
cement companies communicate with and deliver to their customers. The
company based its process redesign on three components: a satellite
communications system called Cemexnet; an overhaul of its tracking,
scheduling and routing system known as Dynamic Synchronization of
Operations; and a digital global initiative that links worldwide offices via
the Internet.



Des Moines Register 8/23/01
Lawyers debate status of racetrack records
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780934/15677219.html

by Jennifer Dukes Lee
Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is at the center of a debate on whether
its detailed financial records should be open to public scrutiny.
A prominent state attorney says the casino is not subject to Iowa's
open-records law.
Legislators and other open-records experts say Prairie Meadows ought to make
its records available anyway.



Government Computer News 8/20/01
Who's owner of FirstGov database? Not Uncle Sam
http://www.gcn.com/20_24/news/16885-1.html

by Dipka Bhambani
Millionaire philanthropist Eric Brewer owns the FirstGov database of federal
Web sites-and in 2003, he'll take it back.
The Clinton administration agreement with Brewer that brought the
award-winning portal online in 90 days' time has changed meaning under the
Bush administration.



Kansas City Star 8/22/01
Judge explains reasons for keeping pharmacist jailed
http://web.realcities.com/content/rc/health/pchealth/philly/1956070244.htm

by Mark Morris and Matt Campbell
A federal judge on Tuesday stated that Kansas City pharmacist Robert R.
Courtney's admitted conduct amounted to "a crime of violence" that possibly
was motivated by a looming $600,000 tax bill.
Courtney, 48, is accused of diluting cancer-fighting drugs and, court
records say, has told federal authorities that he did it out of greed.
Courtney has not yet entered a plea, but his lawyer said his client planned
to plead not guilty.




New York Times 8/22/01
Opinion: Keeping secrets at too high a price
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/22/opinion/22BLAN.html?todaysheadlines

by Thomas S. Blanton
Washington -- The Senate Intelligence Committee, foiled last year only by
President Bill Clinton's veto, is again putting together a bill that would
establish the country's first-ever official secrets act. It is a remarkable
post-cold war paradox: At a time when the rest of the world is looking to
America for leadership on openness, Congress would make it harder for
Americans to know what their government is doing and would give aid and
comfort to every tin-pot dictator who wants to claim "national security" as
the reason to keep his citizens in the dark.




Associated Press 8/22/01
Kennedy wanted to be first on moon.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010822/us/kennedy_space_tapes_3.html

by Jay Lindsay
BOSTON (AP) - President Kennedy went toe-to-toe with the chief of NASA to
try to convince him that beating the Russians to the moon should be the
agency's top priority, according to newly released White House tapes.
Kennedy and NASA Administrator James Webb had a long and sometimes abrupt
exchange in a November 1962 meeting in which Kennedy stressed the Cold War
political importance of winning the space race.



Washington Post 8/23/01
Memos reveal Rwanda delay
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49356-2001Aug22.html

by Glenda Cooper
U.S. officials realized in late April and early May 1994 that a systematic
slaughter of civilians was taking place in Rwanda, but the Pentagon rejected
a proposal to jam a radio station that was fomenting the genocide, newly
declassified documents show.
The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the private,
nonprofit National Security Archive, provide new evidence about what the
Clinton administration knew and how it reacted during the killing of an
estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda.



Montgomery Advertiser 8/23/01
New wing to rescue archives
http://www.accessmontgomery.com/1news/local/082301_wing.html

by Mike Sherman
Alabama's Department of Archives and History, the nation's oldest state
archives, is still growing.
Bids are to be opened on Sept. 11 on a 60,000 square foot west wing for the
archives building at 624 Washington Ave.
Ed Bridges, archives director since 1982, hopes construction can begin in
October for the new wing, designed to mirror an eastern wing opened in 1973.
Since it was dedicated in 1940, the archives building has been both a museum
for historical artifacts dating into Alabama's prehistorical period and a
repository for vital state documents.



AP 8/23/01
Ex-student arrested in work-study case
http://www.neworleans.net/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n40
38_BC_LA--SouthernFraud&&news&newsflash-louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A former student at Southern University has been
arrested in an investigation of employees and students accused of defrauding
a federal work-study program.



Civic.com 8/23/01
Official slaps at facial scanning
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0820/web-face-08-23-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
A Jacksonville, Fla., councilwoman has introduced legislation banning the
use of facial-recognition technology by the Sheriff's Office and other city
agencies.
"I want to do those things I can to stop [an] invasion of privacy," said
Councilwoman at Large Gwen Chandler-Thompson, who proposed the resolution
last week. "I don't want Big Brother watching me. I thought it would be wise
to be proactive rather than reactive."




Savannah Morning News 8/23/01
Purloined documents auctioned on Internet
http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/082301/LOCpapers.shtml

by Anne Cordeiro
RICHMOND HILL-- Historic documents about slaves and wealthy family estates
are in the care of a Bryan County deputy after they were discovered for sale
on the Internet.
Investigators found the faded, ledger-style papers that had been ripped out
of books missing from the Bryan County and Thomas County courthouses.
A Richmond Hill man was selling the Thomas County documents he had gotten
from a Savannah man. Authorities don't think the two men knew the documents
were stolen and they don't intend to charge them. The men also had records
belonging to several other counties.



Tallahassee Democrat 8/23/01
Opinion: Media can't expect to break the law and get away with it
http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/08/23/opinion/08
23.oped.cotterell.htm

by Bill Cotterell
Editors and reporters around the country are very rightly worried about a
free-lance writer who is in federal custody in Texas for refusing to
identify confidential sources or to give prosecutors tape recordings of
interviews she did for book about a murder case.
Any reporter can admire Vanessa Leggett's determination to honor her
confidentiality agreement, at great personal sacrifice.



The Holland Sentinel 8/23/01
City will continue policy to translate
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/082301/loc_0823010002.shtml

by David Jesse
The city of Holland should continue its practice of translating
informational materials into Spanish, but shouldn't begin to translate legal
documents, the city council informally agreed Wednesday night.
"I think the city has been extremely pro-active to get information out,"
Councilman Mike Trethewey said, adding he wasn't in favor of translating
legal documents, such as ordinances. "I think we would be biting off a
little more than we can chew with the legal situation."



Wired 8/21/01
The library that keeps on giving
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46160,00.html

by M.J. Rose
California's state university system has written a new chapter in how to
lend e-books.
Working with NetLibrary, the Cal State system will lend e-books to an
unrestricted number of borrowers at one time -- a significant change in how
subscription models generally work.



The News-Press 8/23/01
Final Chapter: record expunged
http://www.news-press.com/news/today/010823expunge.html\

by Mike Hoyem
Records of Lindsay Brown's run-in with the law at Estero High School are
being erased. Lee Circuit Judge William J. Nelson granted a motion Wednesday
filed by the teen-ager to have records of her arrest for taking a knife onto
school property expunged from the criminal justice system.
That means all records of her arrest will be destroyed by the clerk of court
and law enforcement agencies.



The Log Cabin 8/23/01
WWII accounts being recorded
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/082301/loc_0823010020.shtml

by Fred Petrucelli
Archivist Jimmy Bryant, who is in the process of compiling information on
the character of World War II, came away from the 20th annual Pampa Army Air
Force reunion in Pampa, Texas, with a wealth of data.
Bryant, director of archives at the University of Central Arkansas, was the
principal speaker at the reunion of pilots, who at one time numbered 6,200
and received advanced two-engine training from l942 to l945 at the Texas air
field.



Townhall.com 8/23/01
Opinion: Computers change the rules of crime prevention
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/printgw20010823.shtml

by George Will
SAN DIEGO--The thing about criminals is, even some of the smartest are not
very bright. Even the former college professor with a Berkeley degree in
marine biology who also was a bank robber.
When Michael Dickman robbed 12 banks here in 1999, he would hand tellers
attention-getting notes threatening ``to tear your throat out'' or warning
that ``a bomb has been placed in this building.'' He printed these notes
using his computer and did not realize that even after he clicked ``delete''
they had a kind of immortality on his hard drive.



Los Angeles Times 8/23/01
Treasure Trove of Twang
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000068261aug23.story?coll=
la%2Dheadlines%2Dfrontpage

by Stephen Braun
TOWSON, Md. -- The tiny frame house is cluttered from floor to ceiling with
a lifetime's leavings. Leon Kagarise buried treasure beneath his mounds of
junk, guarding it with a collector's obsessive ardor. After 40 years, he
finally has let the world in on his secret, an unheard, unseen trove of
American cultural history.



Reuters 8/22/01
Why JFK stressed Moon Race
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46244,00.html

BOSTON -- When U.S. President John F. Kennedy met with U.S. space officials
in 1962, he bluntly told them scientific advances came second to the
political benefits of landing on the moon ahead of the Russians, according
to an audiotape released on Wednesday by the late president's library.
"This is important for political reasons, international political reasons
and this is, whether we like it or not, in a sense a race," Kennedy told
James Webb, then head of NASA, during a 73-minute meeting on Nov. 21, 1962.









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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