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RAIN 01/21: Weekly Update Part 1



There are 14 stories in this posting.

Associated Press 01/14/02
Bush puts papers in private library
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020113/pl/bush_papers_2.html

by Natalie Gott
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - When most Texas governors leave office, they send their documents to the state archives or the state's largest universities, where the public is free to view them.
But President George W. Bush, who served as governor from 1995 to 2000, chose to house his records in his father's George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, which is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and not subject to the state's open records law.



Denver Post 01/13/02
Protecting Indian trust records creates suspicious roadblock
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,138%257E332025,00.html?search=filter

by Bill McAllister
WASHINGTON - Even to U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lambert, the Interior Department's initial response to his Dec. 5 order restricting access to Indian trust records from Internet hackers seem ham-handed.



St. Petersburg Times 01/10/02
World War II's photo finish
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/10/Floridian/World_War_II_s_photo_.shtml

by Jeanne Malmgren
TAMPA -- Nicholas Orzio was just 18 years old, newly enlisted in the U.S. Army and stationed in Japan at the close of World War II, when he got the order of a lifetime.
Here's a jeep, here's a camera. Go out and photograph the occupation of Japan. You have two years.



Washington Post 01/14/02
Group sues NIH for documents on cat experiments
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40977-2002Jan13.html

by Leah Thorsen
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a health advocacy group that generally opposes animal experimentation, is suing the federal government for documents that it believes would lead to the shutdown of a federally funded project involving experiments on cats.



Bergen Record 01/09/02
Harrington Park: Archivists dig into town's past
http://www.bergen.com/news/pmhistor200201097.htm

by Michelle Han
HARRINGTON PARK -- Preserving old things has always been in Ingeborg Nebel's blood.
So it was with great dismay when she discovered a few years ago that dozens of mementos from the turn of the century and earlier were haphazardly stored on the second floor of the municipal library.



The Times-Picayune 01/14/02
Parish ponders future after courthouse fire
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/newsstory/fire14.html

by Karen Turni Bazile
Sunlight wafted through the windows of the towering but charred Plaquemines Parish Courthouse on Sunday afternoon. The bell in the clock tower had collapsed, the district attorney's second-floor office was on top of the small first-floor courtroom, and most of the roof had collapsed.



Information Week 01/14/02
Security vs Privacy
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020111S0048

by John Rendleman
Calls for creating a national ID card system, which advocates say would make it harder for terrorists to move undetected within U.S. borders, have drawn criticism for their totalitarian overtones. Now, a group representing state motor-vehicle departments is about to unveil a proposal that could turn the average driver's license into a technology-laden ID. Yet privacy concerns remain, and the IT challenges may be even greater.



Baltimore Business Journal 01/14/02
'John Doe' to appeal Hopkins privacy case
http://baltimore.bcentral.com/baltimore/stories/2002/01/14/story8.html

by Scott Graham
A former patient of Johns Hopkins Hospital is appealing a recent court ruling that said the renowned institution did not knowingly give information about his psychiatric troubles to a disgruntled former friend.



Info World 01/04/02
Looking Inside
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/01/07/020107fesearch.xml

by Jennifer Jones
IT SOUNDS SO SIMPLE: Good, basic enterprise tools that allow search-weary workers to hunt for -- and actually find -- pertinent data lurking within their own corporate repositories.
Yet the choices now available to improve search functionality and simultaneously curb infosprawl within the enterprise are almost as dizzying as the overabundance of data that sends IT managers scouring for solutions in the first place.



Bergen Record 01/14/02
Records law may fuel court battles
http://www.bergen.com/news/accessun200201142.htm

by John Cichowski
With some misgivings, New Jersey public officials will begin a new era in open democracy four days after Independence Day when the state's sweeping Open Public Records Act takes effect.
The new access reform -- signed into law recently and effective July 8 -- erases many loopholes and requires government to respond quickly to requests for thousands of public documents, or face stiff penalties.



The Sun Sentinel 01/14/02
The money detectives: Forensic accountants specialize in finding missing cash
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-ybaccount14jan14.story?coll=sfla%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines

by Jenni Bergal
A business owner suspects an employee of stealing.
A soon-to-be-divorced wife believes her physician husband is hiding his assets.
A company's partners want to split up the business, but are battling over how much it's worth.
Nowadays, all may end up turning to a forensic accountant for help.



Federal Computer Week 01/07/02
Techies turn to security training
Credentials can be a differentiator
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0107/mgt-train-01-07-02.asp

by Judi Hasson
The "Help Wanted" signs are hung up across government for information technology professionals. But some agencies are looking for extra qualifications - specialists who are certified IT security experts.



Sacramento Bee 01/14/02
A click away: Capital's past going online
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/1464005p-1540503c.html

by Carlos Alcala
Four of the richest collections of local historical material are joining together to make Sacramento's past available on the medium of the future.
Seeing the Internet as a quick and convenient way to access prime historical materials, the four institutions are going to digitize hundreds of items, many of them rare or fragile, for a Sacramento History Online Web site.



Toronto Star 01/10/02
Hamilton MD admits poor record-keeping
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1010704253651&call_page=TS_Ontario&call_pageid=968256289824&call_pagepath=News/Ontario&col=968342212737

Torstar News Service
HAMILTON - A Hamilton psychiatrist admits he kept poor records and improperly billed OHIP.
Dr. Paul Michael Porter, who is being tried by the College of Physicians and Surgeons on allegations he sexually abused two women, yesterday testified under cross-examination that he had mistakenly overbilled on occasion.





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