RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world.
INMAN seeks AG investigation of County Clerk
Edmond Evening Sun - Edmond,OK,USA
... Inman says county records show Caudill spent 20 hours off and on using
those unauthorized privileges to look at other officer's computer files
including some ...
<http://edmondsun.teamemagine.com/story.php?story_id=51838&c=2>
AVONDALE Mills' electronic records destroyed in wreck
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
By Jim Nesbitt and Karen Ethridge | South Carolina Bureau. GRANITEVILLE
- Avondale Mills officials, fearful of corrosive chlorine ...
<http://augustachronicle.com/stories/011205/lat_3076346.shtml>
'MOUSE Click' Patient Records 'Will Be More Secure'
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... Mr Granger said the electronic records would be more secure than the
millions of paper documents which currently float around the NHS. ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3996998>
CARROLL schools change public-records request process
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription) - Fort Worth,TX,USA
SOUTHLAKE -- People seeking public records from the Carroll school district
must now contact the superintendent's office instead of the communications
...<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/10629697.htm>
BANK launders money: washing, drying currency
Baltimore Sun (subscription) - Baltimore,MD,USA
... of the accused but yet-to-be-tried -- if their names and deeds and
misdeeds ... office, piles of water-damaged home mortgages and other loan
documents were waiting ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.srilanka13jan13,1,7181700.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines>
NH adoptees gain access to records
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... He adds that no correlation has been found between state open-records
policies on adoption and an increase in reported abortions. ...
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0113/p11s02-lifp.html>
HACKER Got Into Files On T-Mobile Network
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... Court records, however, said the hacker had access to T ... T-Mobile
break-in, according to court documents and a ... agents from keeping work-related
files on personal ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5651-2005Jan13.html>
FORMER CSIS agent slams former bosses for destroying source ...
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
... agent's field activity are kept in the agency's files. ... that examined
the use of intelligence documents in several ... that if CSIS kept these
records, there would ...
<http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/news/shownews.jsp?content=n011251A>
FILES shredded
Van Buren Press Argus-Courier - Van Buren,AR,USA
... records over seven years old he was not required to keep," Bing said.
Chief Deputy Ron Brown said Friday documents in some sheriff's department
personnel files ...
<http://www.pressargus.com/archive/2005/January/12/files_shredded.html>
RIGHTS restoration paperwork stays private
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... said he was not seeking the files as a ... Kaull said, referring to
the controversy over the records. ... the governor can still voluntarily
turn over the documents. ...
<http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=80478&ran=10445>
PRESLEY'S still shakin' things up
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... They drove me to a giant airplane hangar [where] I walked around with
three white-glove-wearing archivists who found specific things I asked
for, or took items ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-presley13.html>
PI guy busy doling out information
Weekly Vista - Bella Vista,AR,USA
... His desk is shoe-horned into the corner. DeBrock's next task was to
wrap his arms around an FOIA request that had been pending for weeks.
...
<http://www.nwanews.com/weeklyvista/nepoanewpiguy-pic175lj.php>
LITIGATION: When disclosure bytes
Legal Week - London,UK
... Lawyers will need to discuss with their clients, preferably before
litigation ensues, how to ensure a coherent electronic document retention
policy to include e ...
<http://www.legalweek.com/ViewItem.asp?id=22629>
MAGISTRATE says accounting firm failed to produce documents
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA
... professor at Northwestern University. "When you talk about a Big Four
accounting firm and document destruction ... from a public ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/10629285.htm>
DISASTER-PROOFING financial records
Economic Times - New Delhi,India
It's always wiser to have a Plan B. The Tsunami that hit several countries
on December 26 has left a trail of destruction and damage. ...
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/989865.cms>
REPORT warns of dangers of UK's DNA database
The Register - London,England,UK
... National Identity Register will not, at least initially, hold DNA records,
there are ... independent body to govern the use of the database, the
destruction of DNA ...
< http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/genewatch_dna_database/>
TIME Capsules Opened- The Past Pays A Visit At Congregational ...
Newtown Bee - Newtown,CT,USA
... A July 7 issue of the Herald Tribune had a front-page photo of former
President Harry S. Truman celebrating the opening of his Presidential
Library. ...
<http://www.newtownbee.com/Features.asp?s=Features-2005-01-13-12-06-03p1.htm>
ATA finds new hours rules vague on documentation
eTrucker - USA
... is printed on a sheet of paper, you must keep as a supporting document.".
... cost, to the driver and the motor carrier, of record acquisition and
retention.". ...
<http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=45981>
RECORDS EASIER TO ACCESS
Whitehaven News - Whitehaven,Lake District,UK
... The joint initiative between Lancaster University, the National Archives
and Cumbria County Council Archive Service will see a new easy-access
on-line database ...
<http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/people/viewarticle.asp?id=169545>
Dallas Morning News
SMU gets paperwork from Dallas desegregation suit
Judge, attorneys donate notes from case that spanned 33 years
07:26 AM CST on Thursday, January 13, 2005
By TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News
Now that DISD's desegregation order is history, the judge and the two attorneys who faced off for years
have come together to preserve the case for posterity.
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011305dnmetbarefoot.1ecb7.html>
Los Angeles Times 1/13/05
New FBI Software May Be Unusable
A central feature of the agency's $581-million computer
overhaul aimed at coordinating anti-terrorism efforts is
reportedly inadequate.
By Richard B. Schmitt
Times Staff Writer
January 13, 2005
WASHINGTON — A new FBI computer program designed to help agents share information to ward off
terrorist attacks may have to be scrapped, the agency has concluded, forcing a further delay in a fouryear,
half-billion-dollar overhaul of its antiquated computer system.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi13jan13.story>
Webroot
December 29, 2004
A Primer on Fighting Spyware
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
Amid the security crisis afflicting users of Windows computers, the newest, most virulent, and least
understood threat comes from a class of malicious software called spyware, or adware. These
malevolent programs are different from viruses, spam, or hacker attacks. And the antivirus, antispam
and firewall programs you may already use do little or nothing to fight spyware, because these older
types of security programs were designed to solve different problems.
<http://www.webroot.com/inthenews/20041229-mossberg-primer.php>
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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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