RAIN 20070928
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Mesa CFO purged porn, not financial docs
The Deal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Mesa Air Group Inc., charged with corporate espionage in its efforts to
start a low-fare Hawaii-based airline, has a novel explanation for why 
CFO
Peter ...
<http://dealscape.thedealblogs.com/2007/09/mesa_cfo_purged_porn_not_finan
cial_docs.php>

Oregon's Willamette University hires its first archivist
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
"The university archives are used for genealogical research a lot," 
McKay
said. In Texas she worked in the photo archive of the University of 
Texas,
<http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_9534.shtml>

A closer look on Lavasoft File Shredder
Help Net Security - Croatia
Program settings give you extensive options of setting your preferred
shredding algorithm. Shredding files and folders is easy after you 
select
specific ...
<http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=5486>

Accused Secret Stealer: "The 'Bot Set Me Up!"
Wired News - USA
Ahed acknowledged shredding about 100 CD-ROM disks the day after iRobot
sued. Ahed said the disks contained Robotic FX data, not iRobot trade
secrets. ...
<http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/accused-bot-eng.html>

Morgan Stanley Settles Email Charges
Wall Street Journal - USA
Morgan Stanley had said the destruction of email servers at the World 
Trade
Center resulted in the loss of all pre-9/11 email. However, the firm was
able to ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119090731335341388.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>

Councilman Accuses Aguirre Of Destroying Important Documents
KGTV, 10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
Madaffer asked if administrative regulations related to document 
retention
were followed and sought an itemization of any discarded or destroyed
items. ...
<http://www.10news.com/news/14221314/detail.html>

Morgan Stanley pays $US12.5m over pre-9/11 e-mail
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Sloppy document handling came back to haunt the brokerage in 2005, when 
a
Florida state court jury ordered Morgan Stanley to pay $US1.58 billion 
to
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4218231a6026.html>

Go! exec defends action in lawsuit
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... in federal court yesterday, saying he did all he could to 
investigate
an executive who has been accused of destroying evidence and lying to 
the
court. ...
<http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/27/business/story01.html>

Historian Culver leaves job for own artistic pursuits
Union Democrat - Sonora,CA,USA
"I work closely with the County Archives," she says, "They have volumes 
of
newspapers, county records, deeds, birth certificates. I have the
photographs. ...
<http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=24534>

Land records put online by Pa. State Archives
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
More land records have been posted online by the Pennsylvania State
Archives, giving researchers and genealogists a wealth of new resources.
...
<http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/philadelphia/20070830_Land_records_
put_online_by_Pa__State_Archives.html>

City officials squabble over document shredding
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
"I have it on very good authority that this was an unscheduled last- 
minute
document destruction party," Madaffer said. The councilman declined to
identify ...
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/28/news/sandiego/17_16_429_27_07
.txt>

Porn purge alleged as Mesa CFO faces coverup claim
Flight International - USA
Hawaiian claims that Murnane engaged in "willful and deliberate
spoliation of evidence that existed on three of his computers" during 
the
weeks and months ...
<http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/09/27/217235/porn-purge-allege
d-as-mesa-cfo-faces-coverup-claim.html>


Two US computer engineers charged with espionage
Register - London,England,UK
... 34, of San Jose and Lan Lee, 42 of Palo Alto have been indicted 
under
charges of conspiracy, economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. 
...
<http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/computer_engineers_espionage
_chinese_military/>

Spies 'stole secrets' to arm Chinese military
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The men, who have been released on bail of 300000 dollars each, are both
charged with two counts of economic espionage, two counts of theft of 
trade
secrets ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/28/wspy128.
xml>

Special Collections isn'ta hassle at all
The Georgetown Voice - Washington,DC,USA
The Special Collections staff on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library,
especially Lynn Conway the Georgetown archivist, was an invaluable help 
in
researching ...
<http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2007/09/27/special-collections-isnt-a-ha
ssle-at-all/>

Voices of Feminism Project to Celebrate Archive's Birthday
The Sophian - Northampton,MA,USA
... contributed to the Sophia Smith Collection. Their personal papers,
thoughts and ideas on a range of subjects can be found within the
historical archive.
<http://www.smithsophian.com/news/2007/09/27/News/Voices.Of.Feminism.Proj
ect.To.Celebrate.Archives.Birthday-3000421.shtml>

Lawyer Admits Destroying Evidence of Pornography
New York Times - United States
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 27 -- A Connecticut lawyer
who destroyed a laptop containing pornographic images of children last 
year
while he ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/nyregion/28lawyer.html?bl&ex=119112480
0&en=e3a491a4af70dd2c&ei=5087%0A>

State's computer consultant involved in other 'data breaches'
Journal Inquirer - Manchester,CT,USA
The records were standard forms that usually list employees' names,
addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and salaries, and the 
TSA
sent warning ...
<http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18864234&BRD=985&PAG
=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6>

Collection of more than 400 Civil War letters set to be auctioned ...
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
A federal judge ruled last year that Willcox owns the letters that have
been in his family for generations and that they are not public 
documents.
<http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7143214>

Clerk action was wrong
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
The clerk's office could do more than file public documents in a public
file, as required. It could, and should, send automatic announcements of
grand jury ...
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%
2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352927455&path=!news!opinion>

Voters to decide on new home for Butte archives
KPAX-TV - Missoulua,MT,USA
Butte Archive leaders say the city's priceless memories and records are 
in
danger of ruin and need a better home. Right now, archives dating back 
more
than ...
<http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=7144611&nav=menu22
7_4>

Judge Rules Mesa Executive Intentionally Deleted Evidence
KTAR.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Mesa argued in court that Murnane wiped his computer clean to get rid of
pornography _ not to cover up confidential documents that would have 
backed
up ...
<http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=605725>

CNI Has An Archivist
Madison Commons - Madison,WI,USA
Another item for the committee to consider is making this archive 
digital
and available through CNI's website. As chair of this committee, I am
looking for ...
<http://www.madisoncommons.org/article.php?storyid=1143>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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