[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

RAIN 0514 Weekly Update: Government (26)



The Arizona Republic 5/5/02
At the GSA, records are lost, and a straight answer is nowhere to be found
By Jon Kamman
You bought it. Now you'd like to know how much you paid for the new federal
courthouse in Phoenix and why it took so long to build.
Just try to find out.
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/viewpoints/articles/0505stonewall0505.html


FCW.com 5/6/02
Study: E-gov prone to falter
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0506/web-study-05-06-02.asp


WSAZ Channel 3 5/6/02
What the freedom of information act can do for you
http://www.msnbc.com/local/wsaz/M179612.asp



News.com 5/6/02
Search for Web services leads to Google
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-9835440-0.html?tag=ats


The Herald of Everett 5/6/02
NORTHWEST BRIEFLY
Yates court files on execution
remain sealed
TACOMA - Documents to be used by Pierce County prosecutors in determining
whether to seek the death penalty against serial killer Robert Yates will not be
publicly released, a Tacoma appellate court has ruled.
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/02/5/6/15460641.cfm


New York Times 5/7/02
California agrees to cancel Oracle contract
Alorie Gilbert, CNET News.com
California state officials will meet this week with Oracle to cancel a $95
million software contract with the software company and its partner,
Logicon, a spokesman for Gov. Gray Davis said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1007-200-9850131.html?pagewanted=print&position=top


WashTech.com 5/7/02
Eleven Federal Courts To Permit Web Access To Criminal Records
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46843-2002May7.html


AP 5/7/02
Fla. Senate committee approves tougher
penalties for falsifying records in child-protection cases
Tue May 7,11:31 PM ET
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - As authorities scramble to resolve the disappearance of a young girl in the state's care, a state Senate committee passed a bill Tuesday toughening criminal penalties for welfare workers who falsify records.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020508/ap_to_po/missing_girl_legislation_6


Houston Chronicle 5/7/02
HISD not tolerating employees browsing for porn on Internet
Recent resignations intended as message
By BILL MURPHY
After seven men from Southeast Texas were charged in an Internet child pornography investigation in March, HISD officials checked to see whether their employees had been using district computers to log on to the site involved in the case.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/topstory/1399706


Los Angeles Times 5/7/02
Shift in Clerk's Office Studied
County: Recorder claims a plan to take minutes and agendas out of his control
would lessen public access.
By CATHERINE SAILLANT, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Ventura County Clerk-Recorder Richard Dean is
blasting a proposal to shift control of the Board of
Supervisors' agenda, records and minutes from his
office to the county manager's office, saying it would
be like letting "a fox in the henhouse."
http://www.latimes.com/editions/ventura/la-000032381may07.story?coll=la%2Deditions%2Dventura


Globe and Mail 5/7/02
Cool million gets lost at the shredder
When records of $1,000 bills don't add up, it spells trouble at the Bank of
Canada
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&date=20020507&cache_key=nationalTheNationHeadline&current_row=11&start_row=11&num_rows=1


GovExec.com 5/7/02
Web site will consolidate all federal rules for comment
By Tanya N. Ballard
A Web site that will allow the public to submit comments
electronically on the federal government’s proposed rules and
regulations will be up and running by the end of the year, the Office
of Management and Budget announced Monday.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/050702t1.htm


Washington Post 5/8/02
Sweeping America's Attic
Panel Urges Change At History Museum
By Jacqueline Trescott
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the third most
visited museum in the world and repository of priceless American artifacts, is so cluttered and poorly arranged that it needs a complete makeover, a blue-ribbon panel has concluded.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49391-2002May7.html


Boston Globe 5/8/02
City wants to make gift of Coolidge
documents; state says it can't
By Associated Press, 5/8/2002 16:05
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) Some city officials think Calvin Coolidge's 1905 marriage certificate would be better off at a historical site devoted to 30th president than in a vault at City Hall.
But their effort to give the city's record of Coolidge's marriage to Burlington native Grace Anna Goodhue to the Calvin Coolidge Historical Site in Coolidge's hometown of Plymouth has been ruled out of order by Vermont's secretary of state.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/128/region/City_wants_to_make_gift_of_Coo:.shtml


CTNews.com 5/8/02
Courts bring criminal records online
Gwendolyn Mariano CNET News.com
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said Tuesday it has selected 11 federal courts to provide Net access to criminal case files.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020508/tc_cn/courts_bring_criminal_records_online



Wisconsin State Journal 5/8/02
Legal bills in caucus probe will be public
Scott Milfred State government reporter
indentThe public can find out Friday which state lawmakers and legislative
staffers have been racking up more than $500,000 in legal bills at taxpayer
expense.
http://www.wisconsinstatejournal.com/local/25264.html


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 5/8/02
Open Records Law advances
Reforms would be the first in decades
By John M.R. Bull, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Correspondent
HARRISBURG -- A Senate committee yesterday approved an amended state Open
Records Law, setting the stage for final votes on reforms to a law that has
remained untouched since long before computers revolutionized the way
information is stored and used.
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20020508openrecords2.asp


Variety 5/8/02
UPDATE 1-Imagine, Universal do "Bunny Hop"
By Jonathan Bing
NEW YORK (Variety) - Playboy Magazine is unlocking its archives for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, the companies behind Oscar-winner "A Beautiful Mind."
Playboy Enterprises unit Alta Loma Entertainment has finalized a deal with the studios granting them archival rights to 48 years of material from the pages of Playboy as source material for new feature films.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20020508/film_variety/playboy__update_1__1


New York Times 5/8/02
New York Contemplates Shielding
Data It Collects
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
LBANY, May 7 — The Pataki administration has proposed legislation
that would severely restrict public access to any information the state
collects in its efforts to thwart terrorists.
The legislation would add to items exempt from the Freedom of Information
Law any materials "obtained or compiled in monitoring, investigating or
preparing for suspected or potential terrorist activity."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/08/nyregion/08INFO.html?pagewanted=print&position=top


Dallas Morning News 5/8/02
Early voting glitch affects 18 area races
http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/stories/050802dnmetvoting.582e1.html


Hartford Courant 5/9/02
State FOI Panel Closes Case
By INDRANEEL SUR, Courant Staff Writer
ENFIELD -- The state Freedom of Information Commission
voted unanimously Wednesday to dismiss a case that
sought to compel Enfield police and the Shaker Pines Fire
Department to release details of an arson investigation.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-enfvilla0509.artmay09.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Dlocal


Tallahassee Democrat 5/9/02
Bill to toughen charges for false records
By David Twiddy
DEMOCRAT CAPITOL BUREAU
Reacting to the Rilya Wilson case, the Florida Senate on
Wednesday unanimously passed a bill levying criminal charges
against state workers who knowingly file false records.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/politics/3226453.htm


AP 5/9/02
Homeland Security exempt from FOIA, government says
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is arguing that the U.S. Office of Homeland Security is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act because it technically isn't an "agency" and doesn't exercise substantial authority apart from President Bush.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16222


Las Vegas Review-Journal 5/9/02
Criminal records repository flawed
Auditors find problems at state-run facility
By ED VOGEL
REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU
CARSON CITY -- An audit has found the state Criminal History
Repository has many problems, including missing records, mistakes
on whether people actually committed crimes and a failure to
process 70,000 fingerprint cards.
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/May-09-Thu-2002/news/18709905.html


The Gadsden Times 5/10/02
Meeting minutes offered
By Kim Craft
ATTALLA - Officials in Attalla agreed Thursday to provide copies of meeting
minutes at future council sessions.
Council member Lesa Osborn suggested the practice during a called meeting in
which the council discussed in a closed session the sewer lawsuits filed by
several industries against the city.
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/news/stories/5327newsstorypage.html



Washington Post 5/10/02
INS Tracking System Set to Roll
Agency Aims to Monitor 1 Million Foreign Students in U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62852-2002May9.html



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