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RAIN 324 Weekly Update: Open Records (14)



Denver Post 3/17/02
Action, please, on city's spy files
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,85%7E466120,00.html

Denver Post 3/22/02
Webb picks 2 to review
Denver cops' 'spy files'
By Cindy Brovsky
Denver Mayor Wellington Webb on Thursday appointed two prominent members of the legal
community to oversee the audit of 3,400 Denver Police Department surveillance records of peaceful protesters and protesting groups.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E478742,00.html


Eyewitness News (Providence) 3/17/02
DEBATE OVER BILL THAT WOULD EXPUNGE FELONIES FROM RECORDS SOONER
By Eyewitness News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Some government and law enforcement officials say legislation that would clear a felony from one's criminal record in five years instead of 10 is too extreme.
But the bill's sponsors say reducing the amount of time a felon must wait before asking a judge to wipe his or her record clean would help first-time offenders get a fresh start.
Otherwise those individuals could be hampered from getting a job, finding housing or
supporting a family.
http://www.wpri.com/artman/publish/article_1497.shtml



Washington Post 3/18/02
Tighter Immigrant ID Rules Shut Doors
Schools, DMV Reject Undocumented
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42200-2002Mar17.html



Reuters 3/18/02
Internet Body Director Sues for Access to Records
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The group that oversees the Internet's domain name system was slapped with a lawsuit Monday by one of its directors, who says he has been denied access to the organization's corporate records.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020318/wr_nm/tech_internet_icann_dc_1


Newsbytes 3/19/02
ICANN President Says Board Member Can View Records
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175312.html


PRNewswire 3/18/02
USDA Documents Provide Proof of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Abuse Of Elephants; ASPCA Obtains Records Under FOIA Lawsuit To Prove Cruelty
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020318/nym163_2.html


AP 3/19/02
Wisconsin public-records confusion continues
MADISON, Wis. — Lawmakers adjourned last week without resolving widespread confusion
over how public records are released to the public and when people should be notified that records naming them are released.
Bills that failed to pass either house of the Legislature before the end of lawmakers' regular two-year meeting period have to be reintroduced during the next session in January and start the process again. That means continued confusion about access to public documents, state officials say.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15915



Siftings Herald 3/20/02
Man files lawsuit against Okolona undr FOI act
By Jim Newsom
OKOLONA - The City of Okolona and its mayor are being sued under the state's
Freedom of Information Act for the release of information about routine city business
here.
Okolona resident James Paul has filed four separate Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests in Clark County Circuit Court seeking information about how the city
and its mayor, Joy McElhanon, are managing the city's government.
http://www.siftingsherald.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/March/20-3595-news5.txt


Denver Post 3/21/02
Animas records fight still churning
River group calls fee for access too costly
by Electa Draper
DURANGO - A decade of wrangling over Animas-La Plata records is not over despite
recent court ruling.
Durango-based Taxpayers for the Animas River sued and won access to project documents once denied them by the Southwestern Water Conservation District, but now they can't
afford them, group members say. The group opposes the long-debated proposal for a dam and reservoir south of Durango.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E476069,00.html



Washington Times 3/21/02
Web sites told to delete data
By Bill Sammon
The White House yesterday ordered all federal agencies to scrub their Web sites of sensitive information on weapons of mass destruction and other data that might be useful to terrorists, The Washington Times has learned.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020321-16859342.htm


WIRED 3/22/02
Anti-Copy Bill Hits D.C.
By Declan McCullagh
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot in the next legal battle over Internet piracy.
The Democratic senator from South Carolina finally has introduced his copy protection legislation, ending over six months of anticipation and sharpening what has become a heated debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
The bill, called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), prohibits the sale or distribution of nearly any kind of electronic device -- unless that device includes copy-protection standards to be set by the federal government.
Translation: Future MP3 players, PCs and handheld computers will no longer let you make all the copies you want.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,51245,00.html



Taunton Gazette 3/22/02
Taunton police cut back records dept. hours
SCOTT DOLAN,
TAUNTON -- The Police Department records division, located in the lobby of the 23 Summer St. station, will be closed on Wednesdays for the foreseeable future until workers can catch up on a four-month backlog of records requests.
Police Chief Raymond O'Berg said the closing of the records division will not affect the department's ability to police the city, because the records division is staffed by civilians, not police officers.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3624528&BRD=1711&PAG=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=6


Worcester Telegram & Gazette 3/22/02
SJC says T&G lawyers must see police records
By John J. Monahan
Telegram & Gazette Staff
BOSTON-- The Supreme Judicial Court yesterday upheld a Superior Court order letting lawyers for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette review police misconduct case records
to evaluate the city's claims that they should be kept secret from the public.
http://www.telegram.com/news/page_one/wpolrecs.html



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