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RAIN 9/10: WEEKEND UPDATE



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Boston globe 9/07/01
Roxbury college under fire on funds use
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/250/metro/Roxbury_college_under_fire_on_fu
nds_use+.shtml

by Patrick Healy
WWith new evidence that Roxbury Community College may be mismanaging $3.5
million in federal student aid funds, Acting Governor Jane M. Swift
yesterday called for the school to be placed in receivership and its
president, Grace C. Brown, to be put on immediate leave.

Federal Computer Weekly 9/3/01
Florida CIO arrested
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/0903/web-cales-09-03-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
Florida's chief information officer, Roy Cales, turned himself in to
authorities Aug. 30 after they issued a warrant for his arrest for grand
theft stemming from a 1996 incident. He resigned his post the same day.
Cales, 39, had been on administrative leave with pay since July 18 while the
Leon County Sheriff's Office investigated the charge.


The Times Picayune 9/7/01
Assessor ordered to hand over records
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_assess07.html

by Laura Maggi
BATON ROUGE -- New Orleans Assessor Patricia Johnson must turn over her
financial records to the legislative auditor, a Baton Rouge judge ruled
Thursday.
State District Judge J. Michael McDonald gave Johnson, assessor for the 1st
Municipal District, until Sept. 14 to gather her office records, including
bank and payroll statements. Johnson also must be available to meet with the
auditor's staff by Oct. 1, McDonald said.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 9/3/01
Beware e-mail, boards learning
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep01/email03090201a.asp

by Corissa Janse
New Berlin School Board President Richard O'Connor used to shoot off e-mails
to fellow board members without a second thought.
But O'Connor quickly jumped off the e-mail bandwagon after a National School
Boards Association newsletter warned of the legal pitfalls that can result
when board members communicate in cyberspace.


Las Vegas Sun 9/7/01
Keller seeks plan to erase work card records
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2001/sep/07/512322017.html

by Keith Paul
Sheriff Jerry Keller said Thursday he will erase the work-card records of
people no longer required to have them but not until a plan for the
time-consuming and potentially costly project is approved.
Metro Police will offer several plans within two weeks to the Las Vegas City
Council and Clark County Commission. Metro Police, which has long maintained
the work-card records, is funded by the city of Las Vegas and Clark County.



CNET News.com 9/7/01
Lawsuit targets copy-protected CDs
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7090886.html?tag=lh

by Jim Hu
A California woman has filed a lawsuit against an independent record label
for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs
on a computer.
The suit, filed in California Superior Court in Marin County, alleges that
Denver, Colo.-based Fahrenheit Entertainment misled consumers by failing to
include an adequate disclaimer on CDs encoded with digital
copyright-protection software.



Newszap 9/6/01
Delaware abuse registry changes mulled
http://www.newszap.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2001/September/06-
273-news06.txt

by Tom Eldred
DOVER - A task force of lawmakers and child-care professionals met for two
hours Thursday at Legislative Hall to chart recommendations for changing
Delaware's Child Abuse Registry system.
Most agreed the job is difficult.



Newszap 9/6/01
Delaware gains partial rights to historical document
http://www.newszap.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2001/September/06-
280-news08.txt

by Drew Volturo
DOVER - The state will be getting back its copy of the Bill of Rights.
But Delaware won't be able to keep it for long.
Rep. Michael N. Castle, R-Del., said Thursday that U.S. archivist John
Carlin offered a compromise to the state's request for the 211-year-old
document.



Kansas City Star 9/7/01
Patient privacy will be protected in pharmacist inquiry, officials say
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/printer.pat,local/3accf3fe.906,.html

by Mark Morris
Authorities on Thursday assured a Kansas City doctors group that its
patients' privacy would be protected during the investigation of Kansas City
pharmacist Robert R. Courtney.



The Express-Times 9/7/01
Group aims to keep Steel history alive
http://www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/index.ssf?/news/expresstimes/pa/st
eel_ar.html

by Daniel Walsh
BETHLEHEM - First came the Bethlehem Steelworkers Memorial to commemorate
former steelworkers. Now, another group is going to try to remember them a
little more clearly.
Fourteen former Lehigh Valley steelworkers and other residents are forming a
nonprofit group to create a historical resource on steelworkers and the art
of steelmaking.




Tampa Tribune 9/7/01
City Officials give FDLE e-mail, files
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA26MDFBRC.html

by Laura Kinsler
TAMPA - City officials have turned over thousands of e- mails, personnel
files and code enforcement records to the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena.
The grand jury is investigating top city housing official Steve LaBrake, his
fiancee, Lynne McCarter, and their deal to build a luxury home in south
Tampa with a builder who receives city contracts.



Dallas Morning News 9/7/01
Ritzy ghosts from Christmases past
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/stories/464692_oldgifts_07bus.html

by Maria Halkias
A Chinese junk, one of eight purchased from the 1962 Neiman Marcus Christmas
Book, was recently spotted somewhere around Cedar Creek Lake near Dallas.
Anyone with information, please call the Neiman Marcus Direct Fantasy Gifts
Hotline at 1-888-866-7587. Neiman's needs to borrow the ornate boat and take
it to Rockefeller Center in New York for an exhibit next month marking the
75th anniversary of the world's most famous catalog.



Dallas Morning News 9/7/01
Jury pursues Palestinian groups' records
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/464730_infocom_07met..html

by Steve McGonigle
RICHARDSON - A federal grand jury has subpoenaed business records from two
Richardson-based Palestinian organizations whose Web sites are hosted by a
company raided Wednesday by a terrorism task force, representatives for the
organizations said Thursday.



Wichita Falls Times Records News 9/7/01
Hidden treasures: Stained glass may finally see light of day
http://www.trnonline.com/stories/09072001/local_news/26976.shtml

by Monica Wolfson
The House of Jacob's stained glass windows haven't seen the light of day in
39 years, much like a chandelier from the Titanic buried under the ocean
floor.
But the windows might soon have sun streaming through their colored panes
just as sunken treasures from the Titanic have been brought to the ocean's
surface.
The 32 stained glass windows were brought over from Germany in 1920 and put
in the newly built Temple Israel, the reform synagogue that closed in 1962
and became the Red Door Senior Center.



Federal Computer Weekly 9/5/01
Web site transition
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/0903/web-laguna-09-05-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkaer
A small southeastern California city, trying to capitalize on the high
Internet connection rate of its residents, plans to offer a suite of
e-government initiatives beginning next year.
"I wanted people to able to get online and do business with the city so they
didn't have to come into City Hall Monday through Friday, 8 to 5," said Don
White, assistant city manager for Laguna Hills. White said surveys revealed
that the city of 33,000 has a 79 percent household Internet connectivity
rate.



Newsmax.com 9/7/01
White House hides Clinton fund-raising scandal from Congress
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/6/161445.shtml

UPI
WASHINGTON - The House Government Reform Committee on Thursday prepared to
subpoena the Bush administration for documents relating to Justice
Department investigations of the Clinton administration's fund-raising
scandal. But the White House said it was prepared to invoke executive
privilege to keep the documents secret, shocking congressional
investigators.



Washington Post 9/7/01
GAO may sue White House to get energy information
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56909-2001Sep7.html

by Ellen Nakashima
The General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, is on the verge
of an unprecedented lawsuit against the White House. The case, which is
narrowly over information on the formation of the administration's energy
policy, is also broadly seen as a test of the power balance between the
executive and legislative branches.



Tax Planet.com 9/4/01
Mellon says employees hid tax returns, payments because of workload
http://www.taxplanet.com/taxnews/mellon090401/mellon090401.html

Tens of thousands of federal tax returns and payments were hidden at an IRS
processing facility run by Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh because several
employees apparently felt they couldn't keep up with the workload, Mellon's
chairman said today.



Las Vegas Sun 9/8/01
Boulder cops reviewing AOL records
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2001/sep/08/090805279.html

DENVER (AP) - America Online has given police the name of a user who
allegedly claimed in a Web site posting to have witnessed JonBenet Ramsey's
murder, authorities said Saturday.


New York Post 9/8/01
Focus on Prospect Park
http://www.nypost.com/living/1838.htm

by Barbara Hoffman
Once upon a time, sheep safely grazed on the Long Meadow of Prospect Park.
People played lawn tennis there, and lined up for milk from the Dairy.
Don't believe it? The Prospect Park Alliance has proof in pictures. Some 50
photos and prints go on display today in the show, "Vanished: Photos from
the Prospect Park Archives."



New York Times 9/8/01
Federal agency likely to sue White House
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/politics/08CHEN.html

by Joseph Kahn
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 - Calling the administration's refusal to turn over
documents "frustrating and extremely difficult to understand," Comptroller
General David M. Walker said today that it was likely he would need to sue
the White House to force disclosure of information about President Bush's
energy strategy.



New York Times 9/8/01
Lost files jeopardize choices by Clinton for Kennedy Center
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/politics/08APPO.html

by Don Van Natta Jr. and Elaine Sciolino
It is not unusual for Washington's elite to jockey for the best seats in the
house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Butin an
unusually bitter cultural contretemps, Clinton loyalists and the Bush White
House are fighting over who should occupy seats on the center's socially and
politically influential board of trustees.



New York Times 9/8/01
Reading (Gasp) for enlightenment, without snobbery or shame
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/arts/08CONN.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Edward Rothstein
We are all of us snobs. We are readers not just of tabloids, viewers not
just of the newest blockbuster films, ticket buyers not just to WWF events.
No, if I may be so presumptuous, we read the finest publications and enjoy
the best of new fiction; we have studied classic literature and occasionally
discuss it with friends; popular culture pales in comparison with the
spiritual and aesthetic glories awaiting elsewhere.



Orlando Sentinel 9/8/01
Riot told in documents
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-locvattica08090801sep0
8.story?coll=orl%2Dnews%2Dheadlines

by Sandra Pedicini
DAYTONA BEACH -- One of the nation's largest private collections documenting
the worst prison riot in U.S. history is getting a new home at
Bethune-Cookman College.
An attorney who won a $1 million settlement for the widow of a slain prison
employee at Attica Correctional Facility is giving B-CC the collection of
papers, videos and slides for use by scholars and student researchers.



The Dominion Post 9/8/01
Recordkeeping not lab policy, trooper says
http://www.dominionpost.com/a/news/2001/09/08/ar/

AP
BECKLEY (AP) -- State Police laboratory technicians kept only sketchy
records of their work until a 1987 case was overturned amid allegations of
sloppy work, the head of quality control at the lab said.
Trooper Ted A. Smith, the first witness called in the fraud trial of former
chemist Fred Zain, said record-keeping wasn't a priority at the forensics
lab where evidence from various criminal cases was analyzed.



The Herald 9/8/01
Shipley told to open records
DA says he urged commissioner to do so weeks ago
http://www.sharon-herald.com/localnews/recentnews/0109/ln090801e.html

by Tom Fontaine
Mercer County District Attorney James P. Epstein two weeks ago urged county
Commissioner Brian W. Shipley to make public his records for the business
credit card he used during the past two years.
The records list all transactions made on the card used by Shipley. Epstein
said Friday morning that at least six people, including Shipley, have copies
of those records, which have not been made public.


Washington Post 9/7/01
Dumbarton Library set to reopen after flood
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54844-2001Sep6.html

by Lisa Allen-Agostini
The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection will reopen Tuesday after
being closed for nearly a month to repair water damage sustained during the
Aug. 11 storm, Director Edward L. Keenan said yesterday.



Washington Post 9/8/01
IRS reports on stashed returns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59867-2001Sep7.html

by Albert B. Crenshaw
In mid-July, security officers looking through a storeroom at Pittsburgh's
Mellon Bank discovered boxes stuffed with tax returns and payment checks
dating from the peak April filing period, documents apparently hidden by
frazzled contract workers who had fallen behind in their processing work for
the Internal Revenue Service.


Houston Chronicle 9/9/01
Investigation sought on alleged violation of open records law
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1039522

by Armando Villafranca
A Houston County official has asked the Texas attorney general's office to
investigate an alleged open records violation after ballots from a May city
election were destroyed.



New York Times 9/9/01
Plan for web monitoring in courts dropped
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/technology/09COUR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Neil A. Lewis
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - The federal court system's chief administrator has
dropped his insistence on monitoring the Internet communications of the
judicial branch after encountering stiff opposition from federal judges who
complained the program would violate their privacy.


New York Times 9/9/01
Recasting racism, one icon at a time
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/weekinreview/09ZELL.html

by Tom Zeller
WHEN Robertson's, a British preserves manufacturer, announced two weeks ago
that it was dropping Golly, its blackfaced, red-lipped mascot, it marked the
end of what many considered one of the more persistent racist characters on
Europe's grocery shelves - a rival to the original Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima
in the United States.


Springfield News-Leader 9/9/01
Tapping into local list isn't always easy
http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/webextra/sexside090901.html

by Kelly Heierman
The intent of the county sex-offender registration lists was to allow the
residents to better protect themselves.
When the legislature passed the law requiring registration in 1997, no
uniform rules were put in place on how the lists should be distributed.
There still aren't, leading to confusion for those who want the lists and
the officials who keep them.



The News-Press 9/9/01
Check from NASCAR draws fire
http://www.news-press.com/news/today/010909nascar.html

by Dara Kam
TALLAHASSEE - NASCAR gave a check for $15,000 to the Republican Party of
Florida the day after a judge kept autopsy photos of racing legend Dale
Earnhardt sealed, records show.


The Sunday Times 9/9/01
Treasure hunters find wreck of £500m galleon
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/09/stinwenws01031.html?

by Lucy Adams
DEEP-SEA explorers believe they have found the wreck of a 17th-century
British warship which sank carrying treasure that could now be worth £500m
or more.


The Sunday Times 9/9/01
Moscow's secret library comes in from the cold
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/09/stifgnrus03002.html

by William Peakin and Mark Franchetti
A SECRET archive of material banned in the Soviet Union, including plays by
Tom Stoppard, novels by John le Carré and Victorian pornography, has been
revealed in Moscow.



Richmond Times Dispatch initiative cuts the paperwork
http://www.timesdispatch.com/business/MGBUDXRXDRC.html

by McGregor McCance
Trigon started slowly and advanced cautiously with large-scale Internet
projects, but the giant health insurance company is reaching full stride
with its signature e-business initiative.
Called Point of Care, the project gives doctors and hospitals online access
to numerous Trigon forms and processes that otherwise would require phone
calls, faxes or printed documents.


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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