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RAIN 10/12: Solomonic decision, Summer job?, Internet Access



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Mail & Guardian 10/12/01
Army file shock for Truth Commission
http://allafrica.com/stories/200110110427.html

The truth commission has been horrified to discover that the SANDF hid thousands of military files crucial to its investigations
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) hid key apartheid-era military intelligence information from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
The commission had investigated the wholesale disposal of apartheid- era information and concluded that all military intelligence had kept was three series of files. Each series contains thousands of pages of records kept of military operations inside and outside South Africa during apartheid.


Reston Times 10/10/01
Lawyer pleads guilty in local DMV scam
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2472715&BRD=1898&PAG=461&dept_id=126522&rfi=6

by Dominic Bonaiuto
A Northern Virginia attorney has pleaded guilty in federal court to assisting a local realtor in a broad scheme to produce fake identification documents for illegal immigrants.
In a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Michael E. Ford of Reston pleaded guilty to one count of fraud, but authorities believe Ford knowingly aided hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants over a three-year period.


Boston Globe 10/11/01
Attorney general rules against secretary of state on voter records
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/284/region/Attorney_general_rules_against:.shtml

AP
BOSTON (AP) Secretary of State William Galvin must turn over voters' party enrollment, voting history, occupation, and other information in the central voter registry to any member of the public who asks for it, Attorney General Tom Reilly ruled on Thursday.
The ruling was a defeat for Galvin, who cited privacy in an effort to keep the documents closed.



Eastside Journal 10/11/01
Medina cops arrest four in fraud ring
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/69565

by Jeff Switzer
MEDINA -- Medina police detectives are sifting through documents and computer hard drives seized during an early-morning raid yesterday on a den of suspected identity thieves.
Five Medina police officers -- nearly half the force -- and nine Edmonds police officers burst into a home in Edmonds at 7:30 a.m. to arrest four sleeping people on outstanding drug and forgery warrants.



Herald Journal 10/11/01
Logan wins records dispute
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=672&NewsID=191842&CategoryID=2271&on=0

by Jeremiah Stettler
On Wednesday afternoon, the State Records Committee struck down a claim by former records clerk Mary Meats which claimed Logan city had withheld her personnel records.
Committee members ruled unanimously that the city had been "forthcoming" in the release of Meats' information.


Standard-Examiner 10/11/01
Logan in lawsuit over job
http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story.html?sid=00011010232127717939+cat=news+template=news1.html

by Ralph Wakley
SALT LAKE CITY -- Mary Jean Meats won a small victory Wednesday in her wrongful termination claim against the Logan Police Department as the Utah Records Committee told city officials to turn over any e-mail messages related to Meats and to identify any documents about her that are being withheld.


Florida Times-Union 10/11/01
JEA lax with minority codes
Audit shows utility missing key records
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/101101/bus_7521384.html

by Earl Daniels
A random sampling of minority vendor files at JEA revealed 98 percent, or 44 out of 45, of the files were missing certain required documents, according to a city audit.
The audit's findings raise concerns about how JEA officials determine whether scores of minority companies are able to receive some of the millions of dollars of contracting work the utility company awards annually.



National Post 10/11/01
Ford policy would have held back white males
http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/worldbusiness/story.html?f=/stories/20011011/729649.html

by Peter Morton
Financial Post
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of internal documents from Ford Motor Co. appear to show that the Detroit manufacturer developed promotion policies specifically designed to discourage white males from moving up the corporate ladder.
The documents were made public this week in a Michigan discrimination suit launched by John Kovacs, a 36-year-old white male, who used to work in the human resources department of Ford's credit division.



Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 10/11/01
Judge rules to split Frick archives
http://www.triblive.com/news/news_story.html?rkey=180597+sid=e3e0b308708fc236cb026dcd20368010+cat=news-pittsburgh+template=news1.html

by Bill Zlatos
Just as western Pennsylvania industrialist Henry Clay Frick had lived, so his archives will be split - between Pittsburgh and New York City.
That was the ruling of Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Lee Mazur, Orphans' Court division, in a decision made public Wednesday.


Sympatico NewsExpress 10/12/01
Ontario improves security of birth certificates following Sept. 11 attacks
http://www.ab.sympatico.ca/news/Fullstories/n1011126.html

by Louise Elliott
Canadian Press
TORONTO (CP) - Ontarians seeking copies of official documents such as birth certificates will soon need a guarantor's signature - just as they do for a passport application - under government legislation introduced Thursday. Consumer Minister Norm Sterling says the law - the toughest of its kind in Canada - is needed to improve the security of documents issued by the province in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks on the U.S. last month.



Dallas Morning News 10/11/01
Irving officer fired for erasing traffic-stop tapes
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/STORY.e9796a128f.b0.af.0.a4.bd339c.html

by Drake Witham
An Irving police officer who was suspended indefinitely last year for erasing videotapes made during traffic stops was fired Wednesday night.
Jeremy Bollin, a two-year veteran, appealed his indefinite suspension to the three-member Irving Civil Service Commission, which voted unanimously to dismiss him.



MSNBC 10/11/01
Trade Center artifacts go to museum
http://www.msnbc.com/news/641400.asp

AP
A state team of archivists is looking through the debris of the World Trade Center towers in New York to create an exhibit at the State Museum. The exhibit, which is expected to open in November, may be the first to incorporate artifacts, officials from the American Association of Museums said Tuesday.
"WE HAVE teams of archivists and historians who have been dispatched to the city in an effort to make sure that the scope and the historical significance of what occurred is preserved," said state schools Chancellor Carl Hayden. The Board of Regents oversees the State Museum.



Start-Tribune 10/11/01
UW-Madison student allegedly stole famous signatures
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=85130824

AP
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was arrested on charges he stole and sold signatures of early American figures including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Benjamin W. Johnson, 21, allegedly stole the documents while working at a Yale University library over the summer, Capitol Police Det. Ed Bardon said.
Johnson was being held Wednesday in Dane County Jail on a $10, 000 bond after he was charged with theft, Bardon said.


CNET News 10/10/01
VeriSign inks deal for smart cards
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7479902.html?tag=ch_mh

by Robert Lemos
Smart-card software maker ActivCard plans to announce a partnership with digital security firm VeriSign on Thursday to provide companies and governments with a secure way to log into computer networks, CNET News.com has learned.
The deal will make VeriSign a stronger player in the market to provide such systems and should boost Fremont, Calif.-based ActivCard into the major leagues, say analysts. The partnership also breaks a long-standing tie between VeriSign and the company from which it grew, RSA Data Security.



NewOK.com 10/11/01
Access to records easier on Internet
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=766152&pic=none&TP=getarticle

by John Perry
In the weeks after terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, newspapers nationwide began asking just how secure our airports are.
They found, in many cases, that Federal Aviation Administration inspectors have been able to regularly slip dummy weapons and explosives past passenger screening stations.
If reporters had sorted through stacks of the paper records of airport security violations, research for those stories would have taken months.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com