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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Some offices not providing records available under law
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
... police departments around Virginia for recent crime incident
reports,
among other records. ... to flee or evade detection; or result in the
destruction of evidence ...
<http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA/MGArticle/LNA_
BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192434743&path=>
Think before you delete
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... with companies that were seen as sloppy or evasive in producing such
records. ... trend has been that courts are very sensitive to the
destruction of information ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070101/BUSIN
ESS/701010335>
Newspaper uses law to unearth disturbing figures
York Press - York,UK
... We have made frequent use of the Freedom Of Information Act to
obtain
data and documents previously hidden from public view, to break the
exclusive stories ...
<http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/display.var.1097172.0.newspaper_uses_law_to_
unearth_disturbing_figures.php>
E-mail records hard to find in Virginia local governments
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... In fact, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in a 2004 case in
Fredericksburg that, "There is no question that e-mails fall within the
definition of public records ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--openampshute-mail01
01jan01,0,733798.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia>
Feds push for Internet records
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... to them.". The government has offered differing rationales for its
data-retention plan, said Harris, the privacy advocate. "I've ...
<http://www.startribune.com/789/story/909568.html>
Revealing new layers of dark history
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Library and Archives Canada will be closely involved in the effort,
but
the ... Nancy Hurn, the national archivist for the Anglican Church,
manages
the church's ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070102.wxnativescho
ols2/BNStory/National/home>
Diagnosis: Identity Theft
BusinessWeek - USA
The hospital wouldn't let him see his own medical records when they
determined that the signature on the driver's license Ryan handed them
didn't match the ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_02/b4016041.htm?chan=top
+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives>
My Dream Archive
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
... At another archive, student assistants chatted noisily in a storage
space adjacent to the reading room, while an archivist of Grateful Dead
vintage walked ...
<http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/01/2007010201c/careers.html>
IT employee records system being designed for DHS
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
... The information will be routinely used by DHS contractors and
consultants, facility operators, congressional offices, National
Archives,
Justice Department or ...
<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42852-1.html>
DHS plans IT employee records database
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... The National Archives will access the database pursuant to records
management inspections and there will be no disclosure to consumer
reporting agencies, the ...
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/29923-1.html>
For Their Eyes Only
Utne Reader Online - USA
Every year, tens of thousands of children are paraded through the
Romanesque museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) in Washington, DC ...
<http://www.utne.com/issues/2006_139/promo/12394-1.html>
Businesses Still Not Savvy to Records Management
CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USA
A recent AIIM survey on electronic records management tells a story
that’s all too familiar: in most organizations, managing electronic
records remains still ...
<http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/businesses-still-not-savvy-to-
records-management-000996.php>
New Data-Archiving Rules Good News For VARs
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
... In the past, courts have awkwardly applied electronic records rules
for
producing paper documents for civil litigation -- everything from
shareholder lawsuits ...
<http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=1
96800344>
Classified info
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
With the release of an internal investigation last week, we now know
that
former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger not only knowingly flouted
laws for ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070101-111204-7254r.htm>
Sandy Berger, Secret Agent: Report details how he took documents
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
... general's report on the theft of documents from the National
Archives
fails to answer one key question: What on earth was Sandy Berger
thinking?
<http://www.courierpress.com/news/2006/dec/26/sandy-berger-secret-agent/>
Germany's data protection officer calls for improvements in ...
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
... "Telecommunications data retention is no longer merely about
combating
terrorism, but also about economic interests." One example Schaar
mentioned
was the ...
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/83094>
End of the RIAA terror reign?
Agoravox - Paris,France
... We had so many records that people would come to our house and be
amazed by the size and ... So to be sued for having music files on my
computer is an insult. ...
<http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5445>
Show Me the Data: Slim Down Your Customer File
Multichannel Merchant - Stamford,CT,USA
... You should not retain prospecting records if the prospects have not
responded to ... companies clutter their databases with one and two year
old files because no ...
<http://multichannelmerchant.com/crosschannel/lists/singleton_01022007/>
Information Scarcity to Information Overload
DMReview.com - New York,NY,USA
... information overload. This dynamic explains why the disparate
technologies of search, records management and analytics are now hot. In
<http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1072477>
Why Most Document Retention Policies Are Ineffective
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Software products that overwrite deleted files, making them
unrecoverable, are readily ... that makes them irretrievable -- for
example, by shredding, burning or ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1167732122993
>
15th-century law brings police chief to court
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... He said that, in January 2005, he applied under the Freedom of
Information Act for copies of the reports, and claimed that, when he
received them, officers ...
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/77924.shtml>
Revealed: Attlee's ignorance of the Cambridge spies who defected
Independent - London,England,UK
... The notes are part of the first tranche to be released by the
National
Archives under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2121667.ece>
15th-century law brings police chief to court
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... He said that, in January 2005, he applied under the Freedom of
Information Act for copies of the reports, and claimed that, when he
received them, officers ...
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/77924.shtml>
E-mail records search sketchy
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
OPEN & SHUT -- One of a series of stories on a Freedom of Information
Act
audit of Virginia cities and counties conducted by the Daily Press and
19
other ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-09908sy0jan02,0,7084577.story?co
ll=dp-news-local-final>
Virginia local government have mixed record on FOIA requests
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
By HARRY MINIUM. NORFOLK, Va. -- A man walked into the Prince Edward
County
sheriff's office not long ago and asked to see the county's ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--openampshutovervie1
230dec30,0,3992277.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia>
The Sacramento Bee, Tue, 02 Jan 2007 0:26 AM PST
Matsui papers to go to Bancroft Library
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/101581.html
WASHINGTON -- Two years after the unexpected death of her husband, Rep.
Doris Matsui is letting go.
The Arizona Republic, Sun, 31 Dec 2006 8:22 PM PST
File-managing firms are on rise http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/228682
Osam Document Solutions Inc., which provides scanning software and
document-storage services, has capitalized on regulatory changes
requiring government agencies and businesses to take greater steps to
store paper and secure client data.
Sun-Sentinel, Mon, 01 Jan 2007 0:25 AM PST
Don't gamble - be sure to back up your data
http://feeds.sun-sentinel.com/~r/sun-sentinel/business/~3/69229651/sfl-yb
tech01jan01,0,4832600.column
Danie Beck will never forget the day that an employee's momentary lapse
led to the loss of data her business needed to survive.
CIO Insight
E-Discovery: A Lifecycle of Its Own
December 6, 2006
Legal judgments and sanctions can be costly for companies that can't
find the information required for court hearings.
Morgan Stanley is expected to post more than $7 billion in profits for
2006. But even this Wall Street behemoth felt a sting last year when a
Florida jury slapped it with a $1.45 billion judgment, now approaching
$1.6 billion with interest and other adjustments.
<http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2074286,00.asp>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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