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MEDICAL records found in open
ABC12.com - Flint,MI,USA
... strangers. "How did they even find my medical records when I knew they
were supposed have been shredded?" said Sandra Watson. "When ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/020405_NW_da_records.html>
MEDICAL records upgrade sought
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
Jim Doyle's budget will call for $10 million in grants and loans for medical
providers to switch over to computerized records, the governor said Friday.
...<http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_19712159.shtml>
BUSINESSES, individuals told to destroy personal documents
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
... another reason: A new provision of the Fair and Accurate Credit
Transaction
Act requires businesses to adopt and implement document destruction policies
by ...
<http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/02/05/news/z01shred.txt>
HISTORY by Laptop
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... inhumanity. Telexed copy dies out in my files in the late 1980s and
computer records suddenly arrive. But they don't work. While ...
<http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk02052005.html>
DISMISS suit, Infineon argues
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... The Infineon lawyer also alleged that Rambus had re-created some destroyed
documents to mislead others about the extent of its shredding, a suggestion
that ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD
_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780652134&path=!business&s=1045855934855>
FREEDOM of Information Act: Don't feel obliged to take no for an ...
Independent - UK
It is still too early to tell how well the Freedom of Information Act is
working, and will be for some time. The Act has been in force for only
a month. ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=607912>
LABOUR uses Information Act to target Michael Howard
Independent - UK
Labour was accused of cynically manipulating the Freedom of Information
Act yesterday after it emerged that it was planning to use it to mount
a pre-election ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=607936>
ACT meant to show how money is spent
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 was introduced to allow the public,
either directly or through agencies such as the press, to find out more
about how money ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/05/nlab205.xml&s
Sheet=/news/2005/02/05/ixnewstop.html>
WHITEHALL 'abusing spirit' of disclosure law
Independent - UK
The Government was accused of abusing "the spirit" of the Freedom of
Information
Act yesterday by people whose questions had been blocked. ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=607929>
CORONER seeks predecessor's records
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
... He said he told the county auditor that as soon as he had completed
updating the files he would take the records to the county archive center
and leave them ...
<http://www.semissourian.com/story.html$rec=155783>
IOWA ruling raises questions about NU Foundation records
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA
... Sen. Mitch McConnell. A judge later ruled the foundation is a public
entity subject to the Kentucky Open Records Act. The newspaper ...
<http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/02/04/local/doc420410dce549d86311934
1.txt>
OPEN-RECORDS ruling a victory for Iowans
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... Streit reiterated the court's historic view that under Iowa's open-records
law, the "right of persons to view public records is to be interpreted
liberally ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050205/OPINION03/50
2050315/1110>
STRICTLY business: County's Internet usage aimed at improving ...
Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi,CA,USA
... Pat Groff, chief technology information officer for Sacramento County,
uses the assumption that e-mails are public documents, but he deferred
to the county ...
<http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/02/05/news/03_email_050205.txt>
LAMONT approves full publication of Black Wednesday archives
Financial Times - UK
By James Blitz, Political Editor. Lord Lamont, the former chancellor, gave
the green light yesterday to the publication of about ...
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/31726102-771a-11d9-b897-00000e2511c8.html>
DIGGING Up 'Deepthroat'
PEJ News - Victoria,BC,Canada
... the University of Texas is an appropriate time to let Poynter's readers
know -- based on recent events and my own research at the National Archives
in College ...
<http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=174
9&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>
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