Cortez Journal
May 20, 2004
Findings in Wetherill collection
previewed
By Nate Thompson
Journal Staff Writer
In 1997, efforts by historians resulted in the archiving of box after box of materials about the famed Wetherill family's life in the Southwest during the first half of the 20th century. The Wetherills helped settle the Mancos Valley, set up a number of trading posts and are credited with some of the earliest
explorations of Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and other structures in the Four Corners, including the rediscovery of Cliff Palace in 1888.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Records destroyed because of 'human
error'
By DON WALKER
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Posted: May 19, 2004
The inadvertent destruction of 129 boxes of historical records belonging to the
Tommy G. Thompson and Scott McCallum administrations was "caused by
human error with enormous consequences to the . . . mission of safeguarding the
historical record of state business," a new report concludes.
The report, written by investigators for the state Department of Administration,
also concluded that no disciplinary action would be taken against any state
employees who were involved in the destruction of the records. The state agency
has jurisdiction over state records.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/may04/230701.asp
Cedar Springs official blasts policy for
information requests
Thursday, May 20, 2004
By Matt Vandebunte
The Grand Rapids Press
CEDAR SPRINGS -- It will not cost twice as much, but one Cedar Springs
official remains upset about a new public information policy. The City Council
last week voted 5-1 to approve a revised procedure for Freedom of Information
Act requests.
Councilwoman Kathy Bremmer said the nine-page document is a complicated
replacement for the one-page form.
"I have no clue what a person will be paying," Bremmer said. "I think it should
be replaced by a flat fee."
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Argentina: Data Protection: Census And Registration Of Databases
14 May 2004
Article by Néstor J. Rigamonti
On October 2000, Argentina enacted its first Data Protection Law1. Among other aspects related to
the protection of personal data, the Data Protection Law provided for the obligation to register the
databases under the scope of such law2 in a register to be created.
By the end of 2003, the National Direction for Personal Data Protection issued a Resolution3 to
create the National Databases Register; nevertheless, such register has not been implemented yet and
the obligation to register the databases is not enforceable currently.
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interfax
20.05.2004 13:32:00 GMT
Latvian parliament decides to open KGB archives
Riga. (Interfax/BNS) - The Latvian parliament has voted to disclose the documents contained in th
the Soviet KGB.
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13 May 2004
Article by Lori L. Lasher, Thomas M. Freeman, Kerry A. Kearney, Stephanie Mendelsohn and
Jeff V. Rodwell
One of the most crucial challenges faced by companies today is the rising risk associated with
burgeoning data management responsibilities. How well company leaders identify and act on
corporate information issues—before they become legal problems—is an increasingly vital indicator
of corporate health.
The potential costs are high for those found to have violated record retention, privacy, security and
other corporate information standards. Companies that fail to update record retention policies and
practices may not be able to meet increasingly stringent rules regarding electronic discovery, as well
as heightened expectations of regulators conducting administrative inquiries. Businesses also must
grapple with a growing morass of concerns involving privacy, computer systems security,
identity theft, outsourcing, electronic signatures, and many other matters.
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The Town Talk
Directory
Jena teen winning public records law reform John Hill Posted on May 20,
2004
BATON ROUGE -
A Jena teenager's quest to save his School Board money on computer systems has taken him just one step shy of reforming Louisiana's public records law. When Jena High School junior Michael Barker, 17, asked for public records about computer spending in June, LaSalle Parish School Board personnel turned him down, citing a provision in Louisiana's public records law that requires a person to be 18 or older to make a public records request.
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Posted on Thu, May. 20, 2004
U of L Foundation sets up process for
documents
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The University of Louisville Foundation board, in its first act as a public agency, voted
to approve a process for fielding requests for documents under the Kentucky Open Records Act.
The foundation's board of directors met Wednesday - its first meeting since the Kentucky Supreme Court last
week upheld lower court rulings that determined the foundation is a public agency.
The rulings were the result of a lawsuit by The Courier-Journal, which is seeking access to the foundation's
records. The foundation handles donations to U of L.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/8713466.htm
United States: California’s New Online Privacy Protection Act Affects All Businesses Which Collect Personal Information from California Residents
18 May 2004
Article by Carolyn C. Burger, Marla Hoehn and Catherine D. Meyer
Do You Have Your Privacy Policy Ready?
California is, once again, proving itself a leader in the consumer privacy area with its enactment of a
state law designed to protect Internet users’ personal information. Because the new law applies to
operators tha t collect personal information from California residents, regardless of where the
operator is located, its reach is quite broad, extending beyond the state’s borders. Most businesses
that sell products or services online in the United States will therefore fall within its reach.
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GCN
05/19/04
Feds help create PDF archiving standard
By Joab Jackson
GCN Staff
A number of federal agencies are working to
create an archiving version of the Portable
Document Format, offered by Adobe Systems
Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. The version will
be submitted to the International Organization
for Standardization for approval as an
international standard.
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cioinsight
May 1, 2004
Analysis: High Speed Compliance
By Jeffrey Rothfeder
Every company will approach Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance differently, depending on its DNA. Yet
certain features of the "compliant company" of the
future are emerging, with technology, operations,
networks and databases all affected by the legislation.
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May 1, 2004
Research: Sarbanes-Oxley: Are You Ready to Comply?
By CIO Insight/Garnter EXP
l 88% of CIOs say their IT departments are very involved in compliance
l 67% say their companies are investing in financial systems to aid in compliance
l 59% have no IT executive specifically responsible for compliance
l 44% say their companies will require their CIOs to certify financial results
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cioinsight
May 1, 2004
Expert Voices: The Letter and the Spirit
By Elizabeth Wasserman
Most large public companies now have until Nov. 15 to meet one of the most onerous provisions of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act—the requirement that they document their internal financial controls and then get an outside auditor to attest to the reliability of those controls. But what happens once that deadline for compliance passes?
How will the Securities and Exchange Commission police Sarbanes-Oxley? Who will be the enforcers?
To answer these questions, technology journalist Elizabeth Wasserman interviewed two experts, one with
experience in government, and the other with a background advising public companies on how to comply with accounting regulations. Laura Unger, an SEC commissioner from 1997 to 2002 and the acting head of the SEC from February to August 2001, is now a private consultant on financial services and technology to such companies as JP Morgan Chase & Co. Scott Green, head of audit and compliance at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, is a CPA and author of Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Improving Internal Controls to Prevent Fraud, published in February by John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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