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RAIN 12/05: Dispute ... lost records could cost ... thousands of dollars



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The Shipping Times 12/04/01
APL's paperless bill-of-lading process
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/shippingtimes/story/0,2276,29610,00.html?

SINGAPORE) Neptune Orient Lines' container arm APL has introduced a new paperless bills-of-lading process - a first for the industry.




Boston Globe 12/04/01
House secretive on budget process
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/338/metro/House_secretive_on_budget_process+.shtml

by Sean P. Murphy
The state House of Representatives is invoking an obscure provision of the public records law to keep private hundreds of pages of official documents related to the state's $22.8 billion budget, including the key written arguments by department heads used to justify spending increases.



Boston Globe 12/04/01
New Internet site offers historical information about Maine
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/337/region/New_Internet_site_offers_histo:.shtml

AP
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The Maine Memory Network goes online Tuesday, enabling computer users to gain access to electronic versions of rare and often inaccessible documents about the state's history.



New York Times 12/04/01
Colo. Child abuse audit finds errors
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Child-Abuse.html

AP
DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado database designed to track child abuse lists many innocent people but is missing the names of hundreds of abusers, a state audit released Monday found.



The Tennessean 12/04/01
DA will ask judge to open records in Jackson case
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/11/11059960.shtml?Element_ID=11059960

by Rob Johnson
The Shelby County district attorney intends to ask a circuit judge to reconsider a decision to seal all records about a child-abuse case against a Democratic state senator, especially after reading published details the Memphis prosecutor characterized as misleading ''leaks of information.''



Denver Post 12/04/01
Errors found in abuse registry
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E252526,00.html

by Fred Brown and Carol Kreck
A state database set up to track child abusers is inaccurate, incomplete and duplicative, state auditors said Monday, and it needs to be changed by the legislature.



New York Times 12/04/01
F.B.I. creates new management structure for better oversight
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/politics/04BURE.html

by David Johnston
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I., said today that he was reorganizing the bureau in an effort to avoid a repeat of embarrassing administrative lapses and strengthen its ability to deter terrorist attacks.



New York Times 12/04/01
Identity crisis: Birth records online
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-8055175.html

by Stefanie Olsen
CNET News
People-search and family history Web sites have come under fire from California lawmakers, residents and privacy advocates concerned that personal data available online can be used to aid identity theft.



The Independent 12/04/01
Employees sue CIA for 'abuse of power'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=108245

by Rupert Cornwell
A group of CIA officers has brought a class-action suit against the agency, alleging abuse of power against employees - including the cover-up of mistakes leading to the accidental US bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999, for which several lower-ranking employees were wrongly blamed.



Tampa Tribune 11/30/01
Lawmakers shouldn't embrace secrecy
http://tampatrib.com/News/MGACDA47NUC.html

For the second time in as many special sessions of the Legislature, lawmakers bent on protecting the citizenry from terrorism have considered new exemptions to the state's open records laws.



Naples News 12/04/01
Senate skips over sweeping public records bill
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/12/florida/d712037a.htm

by Jackie Hallifax
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE - State senators passed a slew of security bills Monday but ditched a proposal to let law enforcement officials seek court orders to close public records on a case-by-case basis.
The Senate limited the scope of another public records bill concerning drug stockpiles before sending it and 10 other measures to the House.
"We're relieved," said Barbara Petersen, director of the First Amendment Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for open government.


The 12/04/01
Manulife says new testimony proves its case
Hong Kong woman admits to backdating stake sale deeds by Indonesian firm Dharmala
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,29552,00.html?

by Audrey Tan in Hong Kong
A HONG KONG woman has pleaded guilty to backdating documents in the Manulife case, seemingly validating the Canadian insurance company's claim that it was the victim of a share scam in Indonesia.



Miami Herald 12/04/01
State Senate passes security measures
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/020391.htm

by Lesley Clark
TALLAHASSEE -- Trying to keep controversy to a minimum, the state Senate passed several security-related measures Tuesday, but never took up a proposal that would have let state police secretly petition a judge to seal public records.



Associated Press 12/04/01
Used car dealer held on false document charges
http://www.neworleans.net/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n5906_BC_LA--CarDealer-Immigra&&news&newsflash-louisiana

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- The owner of a used car lot that came under FBI scrutiny is being held on charges of falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen to get needed documentation for his business.
Musa Kahlil al Farahin, 55, was booked Friday, authorities said.
Farahin, a Jordanian, allegedly made false claims to citizenship last year when applying for a sales license and buyer's card in connection with his business, according to court records.



Contra Costa Times 12/04/01
Newspaper wins round in battle for access to records
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/california/stories/xxextort_20011204.htm

by David Kravets
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court Monday ordered a judge to unseal hidden portions of the court file of disgraced former California Coastal Commissioner Mark Nathanson.



The Age 12/04/01
Privacy laws: a challenge
http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/12/04/FFXJV7D4RUC.html

by Sue Cant
American Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, summed up privacy in 1890, as "the right to be let alone".
But, in the information age, the basic right to privacy is under threat. The last several years have seen the spread of PCs and other devices that record our activities, digitise them and send the results over the snaking tendrils of the Internet. The ones and zeros of our lives are crunched by powerful computers running software with one thought in mind to track our every whim and fancy and then regurgitate them back to us in the form of special offers and discounts.



Boston Herald 12/04/01
State house invokes 1897 law to keep budget documents secret
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/ap_docu12042001.htm

Associated Press
BOSTON - The state House of Representatives is using a public records law that dates back to 1897 to keep documents used to prepare the fiscal 2002 budget from being made public.
A spokesman for House Ways and Means Committee Chairman John H. Rogers, told a Boston newspaper that the records, including documents submitted to House budget writers by state agencies, would not be released, even though state agencies routinely are obliged to provide such information.



The Star 12/04/01
Save millions with online tendering
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2001/12/4/technology/04tend&sec=main

by Steven Patrick
KUALA LUMPUR: The construction industry is a fragmented one, involving multi-layered supply chains and enormous paperwork, according to the icFox Group (www.icfox.com).
Its icFox Tender solution claims to simplify this by being a fully online, secure and streamlined tendering system.
It provides a single and coordinated environment for all parties involved in the tendering process: architects, land and property owners, quantity surveyors, engineers, contractors and subcontractors, the company claimed.



The Star 12/04/01
You got something to say
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2001/12/4/itfeature/04apblog&sec=main

by P. Angelina
THERE'S a new trend in town and its called weblogs. Actually, weblogs or blogs as they are more commonly known, are not exactly something new.
This form of _expression_ has, in fact, been around for some time now.
Some people even believe that blogging has been growing since the beginning of the Web and that Tim Berners-Lee, the original mastermind behind the World Wide Web, created the first blog while documenting the origins and growth of the hypertext environment.



The Pueblo Chieftain 12/04/01
Child abuse registry rife with errors
http://www.chieftain.com/tuesday/news/index/article/9

by Tom McAvoy
DENVER - Colorado's child abuse registry is fraught with errors, listing hundreds of innocent people but not listing hundreds of perpetrators who have been convicted of abusing children, state auditors reported Monday.
The Legislative Audit Committee faulted the Central Registry of Child Protection within the Department of Human Services for inaccuracies that defeat the purpose, which is to inform school districts and child care agencies of known or suspected child abusers they may not want to employ.



The Register 12/04/01
SonicBlue owns digital video recording
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23179.html

by Tony Smith
SonicBlue has been granted a multi-claim patent that covers almost every aspect of digitally recording TV programmes on a hard drive, in particular using a channel guide to manage what the machine records.



The Scotsman 12/04/01
Court decides fate of confidential psychiatric profile filmed by BBC
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/uk.cfm?id=126921

by John Robertson
THE BBC will today find out if "confidential" information about a patient at a psychiatric hospital has to be edited out of a documentary.
The parents of the man, 25, believe he has been wrongly diagnosed and treated for schizophrenia. They maintain he suffers from autism.



Akron Beacon Journal 12/04/01
Trial gets under way in suit against Akron
Dispute over lost records could cost city hundreds of thousands of dollars
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/008598.htm

by Phil Trexler
Their beef with the city of Akron began with an overtime pay dispute worth a couple thousand dollars, at best.
It has since mushroomed into a federal case in which the city could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars for destroying public records.



New York Times 12/04/01
Alive and Well, no matter what the lists say
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/nyregion/04ALIV.html

by N.R. Kleinfield
M att Heard is alive.
That transparent fact never struck him as remarkable in itself. As Mr. Heard put it, "I've always been alive."
For weeks, though, friends and acquaintances believed the worst. Even now, anyone riffling through Internet lists of the dead and missing at the World Trade Center might still come upon his name and feel a chill.



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