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RAIN 12/03: Weekend Update Part 3



There are 11 stories in this posting.


The State 12/02/01
Condon urges Commerce: Open files
http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/11/29/local/condon29.htm

by Aaron Sheinin
Attorney General Charlie Condon said Wednesday the Department of Commerce should open its records now; it does not need to wait for a change in state law.
Condon, a Republican candidate for governor, said the state's Freedom of Information Act says documents related to industrial recruitment may be kept private, but they don't have to be.



Detroit News 12/02/01
County obstructed access to documents
http://www.detnews.com/2001/business/0112/02/a11-356938.htm

Efforts by The Detroit News to obtain public records about airport operations and contracts were met by months of stalling and restricted access to documents by Wayne County officials.
When some documents were delivered, they were incomplete. When access was granted, conditions were placed on when, where and how many documents could be reviewed.




The Herald-Journal 12/02/01
New Commerce chief says show the money, keep memos secret
http://www.goupstate.com/hj/news/1129morris.asp

AP
COLUMBIA -- The new state Commerce Department chief says his agency, which is charged with bringing business to South Carolina, needs to continue to keep some secrets -- even after the deals are done -- to be successful.
Jim Morris said Wednesday that how the agency spends money should be open to the public, but details of how deals are made, such as memos between Commerce and companies or local economic developers, should be kept from the public eye.




Houston Chronicle 12/02/01
Spirit of Lost Battalion lives among artifacts
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1153136

by Josh Shaffer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
DECATUR -- Up a creaking staircase, past the Herbert Hoover poster and the old mannequins, Rosalie Gregg turns the key to a darkened door.
"Lost Battalion Room" reads the plaque above her head.
She flicks a switch, and a yellow light comes on over long display cases. These are photographs of the Burmese jungle, she says. This is a model of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, built of bamboo shoots. This is an American flag made from handkerchiefs and mosquito netting, its red stripes made mostly from cow blood and Mercurochrome.




Miami Herald 12/02/01
Record boss loses claim on memorabilia he left behind
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/094415.htm

by Kyle Wingfield
AP
ATLANTA -- They are the remnants of a life building such music legends as Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers: contracts, letters, photographs, T-shirts, press clippings and gold records.
Capricorn Records founder Philip Walden left all of it behind in 1986 when he moved his office from Macon to Nashville, and it wasn't until a decade later that he tried to get the memorabilia back.




Computer User 12/02/01
FTC commissioner urges heightened privacy focus
http://computeruser.com/news/01/12/02/news5.html

by David McGuire
Newsbytes
As federal law enforcers make use of a seeping new anti-terrorism law to obtain suspects' phone, business and Internet records, online companies must take special steps to ensure that they are abiding by their own self-imposed privacy guidelines, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Orson Swindle said this week.




The Daily Camera 12/02/01
Sex offender seeking to block registry law
http://thedailycamera.com/news/statewest/02lsuit.html

AP
DENVER - A man who pleaded guilty to a sex crime is asking a federal judge to block a new state law requiring sex offenders to register with police every three months for life.
Mark Fritz, 48, of Aurora filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court. A hearing date has not been set.




South County Journal 12/02/01
Case puzzled investigators for two decades
http://www.southcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/75124

by Tony Dondero and Mike Archbold
For hundreds of area law enforcement officers, the Green River Killer case was unfinished business.
It was frustrating, disappointing, ``a kind of sick feeling in the pit of your stomach,'' said Black Diamond detective Chris Hurst. ``Something dark and disturbing.''
It also pushed investigators to develop new ways to manage an overwhelming amount of information -- tips, evidence, interviews -- as they hunted for what many believe is one of the nation's deadliest serial killers.




Florida Times Union 12/02/01
St. Augustine once a hub of slave trade
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120201/met_7970180.html

by Margo Pope
ST. AUGUSTINE -- Four and a half centuries ago, St. Augustine was the hub of the slave trade in Spanish colonial Florida, a distinction that continued through the early 1800s. The slave trade was part of the city's economy from its founding in 1565, when Spanish explorer and founder Pedro Menendez de Aviles included black slaves among the New World's first Spanish settlers.




St. Petersburg Times 12/02/01
New voter rolls arouse more fears
http://www.sptimes.com/News/120201/State/New_voter_rolls_arous.shtml

by Steve Bousquet
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's unreliable statewide voter database sparked ugly complaints after the 2000 election. Hundreds of people said they were told they could not vote, and some fought to get their names off "scrub lists" of supposed felons.




Salt Lake Tribune 12/02/01
To erase history, hit delete
http://www.sltrib.com/12022001/utah/154265.htm

by Greg Burton and Dan Harrie
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt conducts dozens of conversations a day via e-mail on his laptop computer, from late-night brainstorming with senior staff to question-and-answer sessions with prospective judges to deeply personal exchanges with his mother, Anne.
Regardless of their nature, all of these gubernatorial missives end up in the same place: the cyber trash.


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