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RAIN 01/27: Weekly Update Part 5



There are 17 stories in this posting.


Asbury Park Press 01/25/02
Wide net cast over housing agency files
http://www.app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,498710,00.html

by Jason Method
ASBURY PARK -- FBI agents seized documents filling three or four boxes at the city Housing Authority while staff members were ordered to leave their offices, interim Executive Director Harold Phipps said yesterday.



Ascribe Newswire 01/25/02
University of Arkansas researcher explores history of reading in South
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?fname=2002-01/20020125.063414&time=7:16+Pacific+Time&year=2002&public=1

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Jan. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study on the history of literacy in the South claims that, contrary to historical assumptions, the vast majority of Southerners in the early 19th century could and did read. More than 80 percent of the white population was literate, says a University of Arkansas historian. And evidence now suggests that it could be a conservative estimate.



BBC 01/25/02
NSPCC 'delayed action' over Climbie
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1781000/1781399.stm

The public inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie has heard damning evidence about the role of the NSPCC in events leading up to the eight-year-old's death.
Victoria, who was murdered by her great aunt and her boyfriend, was referred to a centre run by the charity but no action was taken for nearly seven months.



Charlotte Observer 01/25/02
Commerce secretary: I'll open most records
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/2002/01/25/living/community/states/south_carolina/counties/york/2542367.htm

by Jim Davenport
Associated Press
COLUMBIA - Commerce Secretary Charlie Way vowed Thursday that he would make available nearly all the records reporters or the public want at the state's economic development agency.
"Anything that affects a state taxpayer's dollars, we will get you," Way told S.C. Press Association Executive Director Bill Rogers as a panel appointed by Gov. Jim Hodges met for the second time to talk about open records at the agency.



Washington Post 01/25/02
D.C. verifying immunizations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34853-2002Jan24.html

by Justin Blum
District school staff members will work through the weekend to uncover records of immunizations that may have been misplaced, officials said yesterday, hoping the effort will ensure that only those students who lack required shots are barred from their classrooms Monday.



Associated Press 01/25/02
Press advocates keep close eye on efforts to limit records access
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15682

As the U.S.-led war on terrorism continues abroad, several states are considering measures to limit access to public records for the sake of increased homeland security.



New York Daily News 01/25/02
Mike troubled by Rudy locking up his papers
http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-01-25/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-139294.asp

by JoAnne Wasserman
Rudy Giuliani's power grab of all of his papers from his eight-year term is beginning to attract criticism from various fronts - including Mayor Bloomberg.
But the new mayor, whose election was solidified by the former mayor's endorsement, was unwilling to take a clean shot at his predecessor - even as his aides hinted that they were uncomfortable with Giuliani's move because it could restrict public access to the documents.



ABCNews.com 01/25/02
As Giuliani records go to storage facility, a debate brews over public access
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020125_1591.html

Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) The city has handed over Rudolph Giuliani's official mayoral papers to a private group in an agreement that appears to give Giuliani the right to determine what documents can be made public.



New York Times 01/25/02
Giuliani's papers go to private group, not city
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/nyregion/25RUDY.html

by David M. Herszenhorn
For most former mayors of New York City, the trip into the dusty files of history began with hundreds of boxes of mayoral papers and artifacts being carted from City Hall across Chambers Street to the Municipal Archives in the old Surrogate's Court. There, city archivists undertake a long, slow process of sorting and indexing.



National Post 01/25/02
Immigration Canada seeks consultant to clear backlog
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020125/1234952.html

by Tom Blackwell
Immigration Canada is asking for outside help to plough through a backlog of hundreds of top secret spy agency files on immigrants applying for permanent residence in Canada.
The records, some dating back two years, contain the results of background checks by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service on refugees and other immigrants, most of whom are already living in Canada.



Online Journalism Review 01/25/02
Jury is out on online court records
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=689

by Rebecca Fairley Raney
Kent Morlan, a civil rights lawyer in Tulsa, runs a free Web site with a scope of information once accessible only to the law firms that could pay for it.
The site, called Morelaw.com , is an inexpensive venture. One employee combs about 100 Web sites a day for verdicts, then posts a good half-dozen appellate court decisions a day, with summaries, links to the full verdicts and the amount of the awards in bright green type.



Akron Beacon Journal 01/25/02
Stark commissioners OK contract to make records available online
County to pay $2.80 per document to convert paper and microfilm records to computer files
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/024482.htm

by Nancy Molnar
CANTON: Property records and other historical documents stored in the Stark County recorder's office will begin to be accessible over the Internet within six weeks under terms of a contract county commissioners approved yesterday. The cost for converting paper and microfilm records to computer files will be $2.80 per document from Document Technology Systems of Fairlawn.



Tallahassee Democrat 01/25/02
History fair aims to link generations
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/2538852.htm

by Gerald Ensley
Maybe you know your ancestors were slaves, but you don't know much about them. Maybe you've traced your family history but reached a dead end in the early 1800s. Maybe you've always wanted to explore your family's roots but just never got started.



New York Times 01/26/02
City papers belong to the public
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/opinion/_26SAT1.html

A week before he left office, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly worked out a deal with New York City's records commissioner to move his papers to a private storage facility in Queens, where they now reside. This unprecedented and self-serving contract gives him the right to choose an archivist to catalog a roomful of city documents and to initially determine what is public and what is not.


New York Times 01/26/02
FOI compliance lacking in W. Va.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-West-Virginia-Access.html

AP
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Despite a 25-year-old law that says government must be open, a survey of county agencies suggests West Virginians seeking public information are likely to be questioned, rebuffed or, in some cases, harassed.



New York Times 01/26/02
Judge allows unusual bid to get data from census
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/politics/26ACCE.html

by David E. Rosenbaum
Washington , Jan. 25 - In a ruling that could limit the data government agencies can withhold from Congress, a federal judge in California has held that the Bush administration must give Democrats in the House access to census figures the administration wants to keep secret.



Los Angeles Times 01/26/01
UCLA buys Sontag's archive
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000006636jan26.story

by Mimi Avins
The UCLA Library has purchased the literary archive of Susan Sontag, one of the best-known and most influential American intellectuals of the late 20th century.
Sources close to the sale say the library paid $1.1 million for her personal papers, letters and manuscripts and library. Funds were donated by an anonymous UCLA alumna.





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