RAIN 060127
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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ILM and Databases: No Easy Choices
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
My article last summer on data management prompted an e-mail from an
overseas
reader who wondered how to apply information lifecycle management (ILM)
to a ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/35
81156>
EX-REVENUE employee sentenced for bilking department
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
... to the DOR in September 2005 to investigate a possible internal
theft
that had been identified as employees there transferred computer records
from their old ...
<http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/01/27/helena/c01012706_02.txt>
CHOICEPOINT'S Lax Security Will Cost it $15 Million in Fines and ...
Newsinferno.com - New York,NY,USA
In terms of lost and stolen computer records, 2005 was a very bad year;
and 2006 is not going to be much better unless and until security is
ramped
up to the ...
<http://www.newsinferno.com/storypages/01-27-2006~001.html>
WOMAN accused of taking $725,000 from employer
Indianapolis Star - United States
... Pike is accused of falsifying computer records to make it appear the
payments were being made to the company's vendors, Munden said. ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps
/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS01/601270540/1006>
MEDICAL records found in cabinet
Evening Telegraph - UK
Confidential medical records have been found in a second-hand filing
cabinet
bought at a Dundee auction house, writes Andrew Argo. ...
<http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2006/01/27/story7971348t0.shtm>
MEDICAL records stolen in Langley
CBC British Columbia (Audio) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... for tougher guidelines in the handling of private information after
1,000 medical files went ... the car was stolen, so was a box of health
records of patients ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_medical-records20060127.html>
COUNTY public records still free -- to a point
The News-Review - Roseburg,OR,USA
Public records from the county will continue to be free, unless a
request
takes more than 15 minutes of staff time or involves photocopying more
than two pages ...
<http://www.newsreview.info/article/20060126/NEWS/60126017>
UTAH Legislators Changing Public Records Act
KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
SALT LAKE CITY Legislation that would exempt some government e-mail from
public disclosure advanced Thursday at the Utah Capitol, as lawmakers
debated changes ...
<http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_026213200.html>
REWRITING history under the dome
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
... US government. Wikipedia records every change to its site and who
made
it. The ... view" policy. "You don't delete it," Wales said. "If ...
<http://www.lowellsun.com/local/ci_3444572>
TOWN clerk honored for open records
Indianapolis Star - United States
Indiana's largest newspaper association honored Ferdinand Town
Clerk-Treasurer
Bev Schulthise for her consistent record of providing public documents
to the ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS01/60127
0548/1006>
OPEN records bills pass with modifications
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
Two open records bills passed out of a House committee Thursday, but not
without major changes to both. The amendments would keep ...
<http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/162796/4/>
E-MAIL archival is no laughing matter
ComputerWorld - USA
JANUARY 26, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - I have a love/hate relationship with
e-mail archiving. I love what it can do, but I hate where this might end
up. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,108098,00
.html>
STOW man accused of trade secret theft
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
A 54-year-old Stow man was under a federal charge this week alleging he
passed on trade secrets from his Streetsboro employer to a South African
competitor. ...
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/13724892.htm>
PRICELESS pieces of history left to gather dust
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... The archive's users are worried documents are kept in an "unsuitable
warehouse" with ... mean the entire collection is managed by a lone
archivist,
much of it has ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=132332006>
FIJI: Where Are The Country's "Instruments of Independence"?
Pacific Magazine - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Some officials say it should have been kept at the National Archives
but the government archivist, Setareki Tale said they did not have it.
...
<http://www.pacificislands.cc/pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=19880>
POLK County proposes to go digital with property records in summer ...
Tryon Daily Bulletin - Tryon,NC,USA
... Weisgerber also says when changes occur in the county, GIS will also
allow those changes to be made in county records much more quickly. ...
<http://www.tryondailybulletin.com/news/18238.asp>
INACCURATE Lehigh County tax records cost dollars, and a measure ...
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... To compound this bureaucratic boneheadedness, county employees were
directed to enter the wrong assessments to keep county records
consistent
-- consistent ...
<http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/all-editorial2jan27,0,6937802.story?co
ll=all-newsopinion-hed>
ONLINE archive uncovers acts of heroism
National Grid for Learning - UK
... of Second World War heroes that inspired the nation have resurfaced,
with a recent addition to the growing online history records from the
National Archives. ...
<http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/news.jsp?sec=5&cat=99&res=92119>
GOOGLE stirs data retention debate
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
... Recent data retention laws seem to take the opposite view, that data
should be kept for as long as possible just in case. The pendulum may
have swung too far.
<http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/comment/2149339/google-stirs-retention-deba
te>
WOMAN freed of larceny charge
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
... It was not until she read it at home that she knew they were
confidential
documents. "She came to know it was confidential documents ...
<http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=35990>
SAFEGUARDS sought on top secret papers
fijilive.com - Fiji
Police alleged Afu stole or received highly-classified documents
belonging
to the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) and Civil Aviation
Authority
of Fiji ...
<http://www.fijilive.com/news/show/news/2006/01/27/Fijilive2716.html>
The Idaho Statesman, Fri, 27 Jan 2006 1:11 AM PST
New history center provides potent mix of everything Idaho
http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS01/
601270336/1001/NEWS
Visitors pack the new Idaho History Center on Old Penitentiary Road off
Warm Springs Avenue for the opening ceremony and ribbon-cutting Thursday
evening. The building, designed by the Boise architecture firm ZGA,
houses Idaho's
public archives and research library.
AFTER Enron: hidden perils of corporate data
Accountancy Age - London,UK
... electronic trails about who was involved in researching weapons of
mass destruction. ... of documents are shared daily over the internet
via email, portals and ...
<http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/features/2149344/hidden-per
ils-corporate>
Fox 12 Oregon, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 3:37 PM PST
Records show 11,500 dead people registered to vote in Washington
http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4415489
EVERETT, Wash. A statewide computer sweep of voter registration records
in Washington found eleven-thousand-500 voters listed as dead by the
state
Health Department.
PROVIDENCE critics push for safer records
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... 31. Certain home services employees routinely took home the digital
files containing copies of patients' records for emergency backup. ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1138334121
232950.xml&coll=7>
DATA theft hits many universities, study shows
Oregon Daily Emerald - Erb Memorial Union,OR,USA
... such as University of California-Berkeley, Stanford University and
... Medical Center had two laptop computers, one ... about medical
center
patients, stolen in a late ...
<http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/27/43d9f0f7f33b0
>
LAPTOP stolen from state contains personal information
KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... On Wednesday Jodi got the letter saying a laptop with names, wages,
and social security information had been stolen. Commissioner ...
<http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=117424>
COULD your laptop be worth millions?
ZDNet - USA
... The threat of stolen laptops is a real concern ... consultancy
Ameriprise
Financial, an offshoot of American Express, said the theft of a company
laptop had exposed ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6032177.html>
THIEF nabs backup data on 365,000 patients
ComputerWorld - USA
... financial advisers that a laptop containing personal information
about
them -- including names, account numbers or Social Security numbers --
was stolen from a ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,10810
1,00.html>
PASSING time with Lincoln
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
Bauer, curator at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, became
interested
in where the original paintings might be, of course. ...
<http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/77232.asp>
LEGISLATORS tinker with rules on access to records
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... individual's right to privacy. One bill would change how governments
handle requests for electronic records. The other would cut ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3442579>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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