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RAIN 01/21: Weekly Update Part 6



There are 10 stories in this posting.


Hartford Courant 01/19/02
Court hears records case
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-scfoi0119.artjan19.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Dlocal

by Lynne Tuohy
When The Courant requested from the state police the file of all criminal convictions in Connecticut, the Department of Public Safety agreed to supply it.
But, the agency said, the cost would exceed $20 million, calculated at the statutory cost of $25 per individual in the 815,000-record database.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 01/16/02
Ambrose's work suspected in '70s
http://www.jsonline.com/news/Metro/jan02/12963.asp

by Meg Kissinger
You don't have to convince Harry Anderson that famed author Stephen Ambrose plays fast and loose with the facts. He's been saying so for years.



Las Vegas Review-Journal 01/19/02
Shredding by fire chief defended
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jan-19-Sat-2002/news/17905172.html

by Frank Geary
Allegations that county Fire Chief Earl Greene inappropriately shredded documents related to the fatal AeroTech fire are without merit, the Clark County district attorney's office said Friday.
County Counsel Mary-Anne Miller acknowledged that Greene shredded documents in November after an Oct. 15 fire at the model-rocket fuel plant, but she said his actions were appropriate because the records were proprietary and were about to be inadvertently released to the news media.



Associated Press 01/19/02
Courthouse fire was arson, investigators say
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n3965_BC_LA--CourthouseBurns&&news&newsflash-louisiana

POINTE A LA HACHE, La. (AP) -- Someone intentionally set the fire that destroyed the historic Plaquemines Parish Courthouse, federal and state investigators said Saturday.
Experts and lab technicians from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire Arms; the state fire marshal's office; and the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office have been combing through the burnt-out shell for evidence since the Jan. 12 fire.



AP 01/19/02
Oh bother! Disney fired for destroying Pooh evidence
http://www.nando.com/business/story/223404p-2155156c.html

by Gary Gentile
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (January 19, 2002 1:20 p.m. EST) - Court documents unsealed Friday show that the Walt Disney Co. was fined $90,000 last year for destroying boxes of documents relating to a dispute over royalties owed on sales of Winnie the Pooh products.
In addition to the fine, a Superior Court judge also ruled that a jury will be told about the destruction and be allowed to draw its own inferences about the evidence those boxes contained.



Seattle Times 01/19/02
City of Seattle avoids $10,000-a-day fine in Oscar's II case
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134393158_oscar19m.html

by Alex Fryer
Attorneys representing the city of Seattle won a last-minute reprieve sparing the city from paying $10,000-a-day fines or revealing the identities of confidential informers used in narcotics operations.



New York Times 01/20/02
A museum for those heroes of the lonely road
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/national/20TOWI.html

by Kevin Sack
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 17 - Lyndia Thomas may well have to clear some wall space to honor the heroes of Sept. 11.
Not the firefighters or police officers. Not the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93. Praising them will fall to others. Ms. Thomas will be satisfied if she can find a proper way to commemorate men like Anthony Lisi of Lisi's Recovery and Towing Service in Brewster, N.Y., who took his 55-ton tri-axle drop-deck hydraulic trailer to ground zero, knowing that it would be perfect for short- radius turning in Lower Manhattan.



Idaho State Journal 01/20/02
Editorial: New open records law goes too far
http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/669/public/news241093.html

Our View: Laws to save Idahoans from terrorists can make them victims of those who govern.
A proposal to further weaken the state's already shabby open records law is a bad idea and goes beyond what's needed to ensure Idaho and its citizens are safe from terrorism.



Columbus Dispatch 01/19/02
Veteran's records weren't misused
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news02/jan02/1039339.html

by Jon Craig
A Pittsburgh company did not send Ohio veterans' records to India as alleged by a competitor, Inspector General Thomas P. Charles said.
Hired by the state to computerize the records, Prithvi Information Solutions was accused of sending the information -- including the Social Security numbers of nearly 400,000 veterans from the Vietnam area -- to data-processing workers in India.



New York Times 01/20/02
Tobacco industry in fight to get universities' data
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/health/20TOBA.html

by Greg Winter
The nation's biggest tobacco companies are demanding more than a half-century's worth of documents, notes and personal files from 10 universities, setting off a debate over the limits of academic freedom and the confidentiality of scholarly research.
As part of their defense in the Justice Department's lawsuit against them, tobacco companies like Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds first subpoenaed the records late last year, trying to glean an inside look at government-financed research on smoking that goes back to the 1940's.


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