RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news 
stories from around the world.

STORAGE and Records Managers Find Common Ground
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... and the Information Storage Industry Center (ISIC) 
(http://isic.ucsd.edu/)
plan to collaborate on research and education in electronic records and
information ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/3484831>

SARBANES-OXLEY complicates Lotus Domino admins' lives
SearchDomino.com - USA
... time required by the law, and some are fine-tuning their retention
policies, organizing ... a service that provides a Web-based repository
for document and records ...
<http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci1061503,00.html>


COUNCIL deny email purge
Harrow Times - UK
HARROW Council have denied claims that it is encouraging employees to 
purge
emails to avoid having to disclose them under the Freedom of Information
Act (FIA). ...
<http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.572895.0.council_deny_email_purge.php>

WASHINGTON could use Texas-bred ideas on FOI
Houston Chronicle - USA
... trial, but Sen. John Cornyn is proposing a package of much-needed 
reforms
in the federal Freedom of Information Act. Before his ...
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3052706>

GOVERNING in the Dark
Fort Worth Weekly - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Increasingly, the government is thwarting requests for public 
information
under the Freedom of Information Act with demands for exorbitant search
fees. ...
<http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2005-02-23/metropolis.asp>


DOCUMENT and Records Management Key to Meeting Regulatory ...
Tekrati Industry Analyst Reporter (press release) - Belmont,CA,USA
... report stresses the imperative for organisations to be able to 
retain
and retrieve corporate information using a Document and Records 
Management
System, or ...
<http://www.tekrati.com/T2/Analyst_Research/ResearchAnnouncementsDetails.asp?Newsid=4561>

E-MAIL Archiving Steals ECM Spotlight
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
... to hit the sweet part in the market by offering comprehensive e-mail
services, covering mail storage management, discovery, compliance and
records management. ...
< 
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/storage/features/article.php/3484766>

FREEDOM of Information: survey rates compliance
Out-Law.com - UK
... The survey also found that 52% of respondents acknowledged the 
relationship
between records management and FOI request tracking, while those that
are ...
<http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=freedomofinformati1109160889&area=news>

E-MAIL Archiving Steals ECM Spotlight
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
... to hit the sweet part in the market by offering comprehensive e-mail
services, covering mail storage management, discovery, compliance and
records management. ...
< 
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/storage/features/article.php/3484766>

SINCE FPJ documents mess, Ricardo Manapat has made himself scarce
Manila Times - Manila,Philippines
... A day after that, three employees of the National Archives told a 
Senate
hearing that Manapat ordered them to fabricate a marriage contract 
between
Allan ...
<http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/feb/24/yehey/top_stories/20050224top6.html>

MASSACHUSETTS Appeals Court Interprets Civil Enforcement ...
Mondaq News Alerts - World
... The Personnel Records Statute requires an employer to ... s 
"personnel
file," as those files typically are ... a "personnel record" to include
all documents kept by an ...
< http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_31093>



TRANSPORT research body digitises paper archives
VNUNet.com - UK
... and implemented an electronic document records management system ...
used to house the organisation's documents, says TRL ... could only 
search
their own files or the ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161463>

OFFICIALS say courthouse was broken in to over weekend
Linton Daily Citizen - Linton,IN,USA
... level (basement) room used to store outdated records and old ... 
said
the room contained many documents, including "old, non-active criminal
files and materials ...
<http://www.dailycitizen.com/articles/2005/02/23/news/courthouse.txt>

PRICELESS bird artwork found in Glasgow's archives
Scotsman - UK
... festival, to give a talk on Audubon. He asked archivists if they 
could
display the city's copy of Audubon's Birds of America for the 
presentation.
...
<http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=202822005>

LEXINGTON'S pictorial history
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... Thanks to his work, UK archivists will be able to properly preserve,
catalog and eventually make available to the public the largest visual
record of life in ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/living/community/10959220.htm>

DONNY goes back to his roots
ic Wales - UK
... it wrong. In fact, the more that archivists dug into the Osmond 
family
history, the more interesting the story became. BBC Wales ...
<http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15220874&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=donny-goes-back-to-his-roots-name_page.html>

MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER
Burnaby Newsleader - Burnaby,British Columbia,Canada
... October. Archivists in Victoria found a box containing aged and 
brittle
papers that appeared to be associated with the city. Sill ...
<http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=41&cat=23&id=380545 
&more=>



OPEN records bill stalls in committee
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA
Almost every day, reporters and editors call the Kansas Press 
Association
complaining of roadblocks thrown up between them and open records or 
public
meetings. ...
<http://legislature.cjonline.com/stories/022305/leg_openrecords.shtml>

HOUSE passes bill to exempt homeland security records from public ...
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
... the Kentucky House on Tuesday. The measure would exempt such records
from the state Open Records law. It also would allow officials ...
<http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=2984739>

'TSTT records meaningless'
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Trinidad and Tobago
... TSTT records had been deliberately tampered with, noting that a 
limited
number of employees and other authorised people had access to delete 
official
records.
<http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=63308598>

REWRITABLE Drives support WORM archiving functionality.
Industrial News Room - New York,NY,USA
... Fujitsu MO technology has enjoyed the support of consumers and 
professionals
looking for a reliable and affordable removable storage and archival 
solution
that ...
<http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/460551>

PUBLIC-RECORDS requests addressed at workshop
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... Requiring identification and a telephone number on a written request
to obtain public documents are not in compliance with Florida law. ...
<http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/10966782.htm>

HIV e-mail error setting off changes
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... According to Malecki, the state Department of Health in Tallahassee
had sent Nolan an electronic folder with seven attachments -- six public
documents and the ...
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/02/23/s1b_HIVemail_0223.html>

ALLEGED Portus shredding worries OSC
Globe and Mail - Canada
... are looking into unproven allegations that officials at the hedge 
fund
company shredded documents and wiped out computer files last week. ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050222.wportly0222/BNStory/Business/>

JUDGE wants more information before deciding ownership of ...
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
... South Carolina officials say the letters belong to the state 
archive,
because they were written by state officials and because the law at the
time of the war ...
<http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2982891&nav=0RaPWgA3>

A Regulatory Compliance Renaissance
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... procedures to prevent inadvertent or willful deletion, alteration or
destruction of any ... bear the burden of proof to demonstrate that 
their
records or documents ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/features/article.cfm?articleID=598>

WAGGLEPOP'S Bubble Bursts Leaving Online Auction Sellers in the ...
Auctionbytes - USA
... She said in general, destruction of records would be inappropriate
if it was done to hide something that was going to be used in a legal
prosecution. ...
<http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y05/m02/i23/s01>

CHOICEPOINT Sued Over Identity Theft
Washington Post - USA
LOS ANGELES -- A California woman has sued ChoicePoint Inc. for ... A 
ChoicePoint
spokesman was not immediately available to comment. ChoicePoint ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47258-2005Feb23.html>

CHOICEPOINT'S error sparks talk of ID theft law
ComputerWorld - USA
FEBRUARY 23, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The revelation last week that 
data
collector ChoicePoint Inc. has mistakenly given private ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,99977,00.html>

Prescott Daily Courier, Tue, 22 Feb 2005 5:22 AM PST
Luckily, new museum archivist loves to organize 
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PRESCOTT – A San Francisco resident traveled all the way to the Sharlot 
Hall
Museum in Prescott recently to search for information about a rare 
automobile,
after hearing that an old company called Arizona Mine and Supply was 
one of two
Arizona dealers of the autos.


Shorthorn, Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:54 PM PST
Medieval Perspective 
http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/2005/spring/05-feb-23/n022305-06.html
The UTA Libraries Special Collections Division recently opened its 
spring
exhibit, a collection of maps documenting the European Age of 
Exploration.

CRM Today, Wed, 23 Feb 2005 5:55 AM PST
Document and Records Management Key to Satisfying Regulatory 
Obligations
http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/EEpAEVplkZzWvshPfu.php
In order to adhere to the raft of current regulations and legislation, 
such as
Sarbanes Oxley and the Companies Act 2004, businesses are required to 
retain
corporate information.

San Francisco Chronicle, Wed, 23 Feb 2005 9:31 AM PST
State looks into possible ID thievery Attorney general wants to see if
ChoicePoint broke security law 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/23/BUGBHBFD411.DTL&type=tech
California's attorney general has asked a Georgia company for 
information about
a security breach that left 144,000 people exposed to identity theft in 
an
effort to determine whether the firm did enough to protect personal 
data.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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