RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
NEW law may boost business for shredding companies
MSNBC - USA
... Confidential Material Destruction Inc., a Dayton-based onsite
shredding
company, said ... known as HIPPA, which dictates how health care records
and information ...
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7950209/>
RECORDS Management Toolkit for Schools
eGov monitor - London,UK
... It was also clear that most schools were not going to be able to
afford
to either employ a dedicated records manager or to second another member
of staff to do ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/1059>
COUNTY archives receive upgrade
Today's Sunbeam - Salem,NJ,USA
... Funds are also allocated for an Office of Archives and Records
Management
staff which include a records manager, archivist, records analyst and
clerk typist. ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/sunbeam/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1116836433148160.xml>
Brigham Young NewsNet, Mon, 23 May 2005 1:41 PM PDT
Brigham Young's will goes on auction http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/55621
A document said to be the last will and testament of Brigham Young will
go to the highest bidder on June 8 when a Pennsylvania auctioning
com-pany
puts the document on the market.
San Francisco Chronicle, Mon, 23 May 2005 7:16 AM PDT
PIXEL PERFECT / Torrent of images is leaving film in the dust /
Evolution of photos creating unforeseen effects on
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/23/MNGNVCT8F01.DTL&feed=rss.business
In a small, second-floor photo supply shop on Folsom Street, Volker von
Glasenapp sits and waits for the phone to ring. But that wait between
calls is getting longer and longer because von Glasenapp is trying to
sell film
in an increasingly digital...
Reuters via Yahoo! News, Mon, 23 May 2005 11:41 AM PDT
More arrests coming in US bank theft ring
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050523/bs_nm/financial_banks_theft_dc_3
At least two more arrests of bank employees are expected soon over a
scheme to steal the financial records of hundreds of thousands of
customers at
four major U.S. banks, a New Jersey police detective said on Monday.
AUTHORITY rapped after freedom of information act complaint
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
In his first complaint ruling, Scotland's information commissioner,
Kevin
Dunion, said the Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership had
wrongly
refused to ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=562592005>
FREEDOM of information law to be enacted
East African Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... administration. The President also handed the Kenyan media a giant
concession when he promised to legislate the Freedom of Information Act.
...
<http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21081>
NEW Shredder Law June 1
Poynter.org - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... In addition, about 2,000 companies in North America do records
destruction;
about half of them do it as their primary business. ...
<http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=82766>
CULL: Readying for the e-documents storm
FCW.com - USA
... not establish and follow cohesive records management policies ...
might
not capture or file documents in the ... because employees misplace or
incorrectly tag files. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article88931-05-23-05-Print>
DISPUTE over seized records in state probe could go to court
WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA
... covered by the investigation, which is a "minuscule fraction" of the
millions of documents covered by the files, according to court records
filed Monday. ...
<http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/WHAS11_TOP_StateDispute.2a1ecbb5b.html>
"SPY files" all over again?
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... director Mark Silverstein said the documents raise questions ...
Denver's
so-called "spy files" controversy, the ... from monitoring and creating
records on residents ...
<http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_2751110>
EXPUNGEMENT of convictions rare in federal court
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
... inspection by way of sealed documents and closed ... influence
charge
erased from Mobile Municipal Court records. ... office subpoenaed
hundreds
of those files and is ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/111683981160580.xml&coll=3>
'THERE are no secrets'
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
... a team of seven Lancaster Newspapers staff members -- six from the
New Era and one from the Intelligencer Journal -- conducted the
open-records
audit here. ...
<http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/14555>
Press of Atlantic City, Mon, 23 May 2005 2:06 AM PDT
N.J. towns look to future of file storage
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/ocean/052305SHREDMAY23.cfm
Last year, a three-man professional shredding team arrived at Little
Egg Harbor
Township Town Hall with a shredder so big it was transported on a
flatbed truck.
They came to rid the township of unneeded municipal documents.
HITACHI unhitches drive for safer PCs
ZDNet - USA
... In addition, two computers stolen from the San Jose ... for almost
185,000 patients and a laptop theft from the University of California,
Berkeley put the ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5716690.html>
COME June 1, shredding a must
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... Association for Information Destruction, an Arizona-based
paper-shredding
industry trade group, said about 2,000 US companies handle document
destruction.
...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050523/BUSINESS/505230318/1003>
FTC alleges Rambus destroyed documents in antitrust case
EE Times Online - USA
-- The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will reopen the record against
Rambus Inc. and alleged that the company destroyed documents in an
antitrust
case. ...
<http://www.eet.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163700286>
FTC to add Rambus documents to record
BusinessWeek - USA
... Monday that regulators will reopen the record on an antitrust case
against the company to include information suggesting Rambus destroyed
documents ahead of a ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8A8UK5O0.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down>
FBI Finds More Records in FOIA Search
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... But David M. Hardy, chief of the FBI's records/information
dissemination
section ... searching the Oklahoma City bombing case's computerized text
files had found ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/23/AR2005052301191.html>
DOCTORS slowly adopt digital records
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... of her prescriptions, health insurance records, diagnoses and
surgeries.
As the medical industry moves slowly to replace its paper files with
electronic
...<http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050523/LIFE07/505230318/1042/LIFE>
PLEDGE on security of NHS electronic records
ePolitix - UK
... about access to, and the secure storage of, private records as the
NHS presses ahead with a move away from traditional paper files towards
electronic records. ...
<http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200505/6296d581-1ed5-4ba7-9202-cf09ba9e903b.htm>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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