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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/08/02 Part 3



There are 14 stories in this posting.

The Press of Atlantic City 01/08/02
Senate passes public access proposal
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/newjersey/010802ACCESS_J8_3RD_4TH.html


by Joanne Marciano and Peter Saharko
TRENTON - The state Senate unanimously approved legislation to improve access to public documents, in a state considered to have the worst public-access laws in the country.



Global Sources 01/08/02
Web conferencing is a safe alternative
http://www.globalsources.com/TNTLIST/2002/01/07/eng-cahners/eng-cahners_101031_1118774177448027838.htm

As a way to cut expenses, there are alternatives to flying around the country to attend business meetings. Long before the events of Sept. 11, corporate America was in the throes of an economic slowdown that included sharp cutbacks in business travel.
Video and teleconferencing became hot topics in meeting rooms across the country in the last year. Conferencing on the World Wide Web is now more appealing than ever.



ZDNet News
Could CD-copying actually be legal?
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101267,00.html

by John Borland
Record companies' efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law.
On Friday, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., sent a letter to executives of the recording industry's trade association, asking whether anti-piracy technology on CDs might override consumers' abilities to copy albums they have purchased for personal use.



Courier-News 01/09/02
Outgoing governor Oks public access bill
http://www.c-n.com/news/c-n/story/0,2111,490181,00.html

by Sandy McClure
TRENTON -- In his final public act as governor, Donald DiFrancesco signed a law Tuesday that dramatically expanded public access to government records -- except legislative documents, though some lawmakers said they would quickly move to close the loophole.
"This bill is unprecedented," DiFrancesco said as he put his signature on the law just before his term as Senate president and acting governor ended at noon. "This bill is historic. This is a victory for freedom of the press, for the rights of citizens, for the very process of democracy."



Philadelphia Inquirer 01/09/02
Papers reveal Nazi aim: End Christianity
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2002/01/09/front_page/JNAZI09.htm

by Edward Colimore
The fragile, typewritten documents from the 1940s lay out the Nazi plan in grim detail:
Take over the churches from within, using party sympathizers. Discredit, jail or kill Christian leaders. And re-indoctrinate the congregants. Give them a new faith - in Germany's Third Reich.
More than a half-century ago, confidential U.S. government reports on the Nazi plans were prepared for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and will be available online for free starting tomorrow - some of them for the first time.



The Bristol Press 01/08/02
Historical Society ready to close Messier deal
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2924471&BRD=1643&PAG=461&dept_id=10486&rfi=6

by Jackie Majerus
BRISTOL - With all but last-minute paperwork complete, the Messier building will soon be sold to the Bristol Historical Society.
Frank Johnson, treasurer of the society and a leader in acquiring the old high school property, said all of his organization's documents are complete.
The historical society, which is buying the building from the city for $1, finalized deals with the city and the building's former tenant, the Bristol Community Organization, which still had a couple years left on its lease.



The Register 01/03/02
1901 Census site closed for urgent repairs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23538.html

by Tim Richardson
The UK's 1901 Census Web site that's been jammed with users since its launch yesterday has been taken off-line for some urgent maintenance.
At one point yesterday more than 1.2 million people were trying to access the site simultaneously far exceeding the site's day-to-day capacity.



The Register 01/08/02
Census site shuts for a week
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23588.html

by Tim Richardson
The Public Records Office (PRO) has shut its popular 1901 Census site because it is unable to cope with demand.
A notice on the PRO Web site claims it is unable to meet continuing levels of demand and has agreed with Qinetiq's technical team (the site developers) to bar access to the site for a week while "enhancements" to take place.



Salt Lake Tribune 01/08/02
Was deed to Arrington Journal ignored?
http://www.sltrib.com/01082002/utah/165522.htm

by Peggy Fletcher Stack and Kirsten Stewart
Despite Mormon historian Leonard Arrington's explicit instructions that only his children have access to his personal diaries until 2024, an LDS Church historian read, copied and circulated portions of the diaries among church officials.



Fort Smith Times-Record 01/07/02
FOIA touted as 'People's Law'
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2002/January/07/news/ComputerAge2.html

by Carl D. Holcombe
Pine Bluff Commercial
Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act is considered by some to be the state's most important law of the last 50 years.
It opens nearly all meetings of government at all levels to the public, provides a glimpse of government's inner workings through access to documents and can be used effectively by anyone.



Fort Smith Times-Record 01/07/02
Change brings law into computer age
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2002/January/07/news/ComputerAge.html

by Carl D. Holcombe
Pine Bluff Commercial
Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act has stepped into the computer age with some of its biggest changes since the mid-1970s.
The key amendment to the nearly 35-year-old act, according to FOIA experts, enlarges the text of the law's definition of public records to include "electronic or computer-based information."



New York Times 01/08/02
Upgraded driver's licenses are urged as national ID's
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/national/08LICE.html?ex=1011506954&ei=1&en=68aeb36054f25d17

by Jennifer 8.Lee
Amid calls for a national identification card, state officials are proposing unified standards for driver's licenses that would allow them to be used for the same purpose. The proposal would make licenses more consistent in appearance and information, and would require states to take the same security measures before issuing them.



Wisconsin State Journal 01/08/02
Ethics Board turns over caucus records to judge
http://www.wisconsinstatejournal.com/local/8994.html

AP
The state Ethics Board gave a judge documents Tuesday detailing its review of allegations employees of the partisan legislative caucuses illegally campaigned on state time.
Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert ordered the Ethics Board to turn over the records as part of a lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.





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