DOCUMENT Dilemma
Tucson Weekly - Tucson,AZ,USA
... William Heirens, a prisoner at Dixon Correctional Center in Illinois
for the last 59 years, may be a perfect example of how records destruction
in Arizona can ...
<http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:64044>

FILE destruction doubled ahead of new information act
Guardian - UK
... said. A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said the move was not about the
new laws or "the destruction of important records". A spokesman ...
<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,9174,1379273,00.html>

DELETING computers
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... must comply with federal rules related to electronic storage of health
care records. ... 5 Department of Defense data erasure, that is, total
destruction (Baum can ...
<http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyOCZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NjYyOTkyOSZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTI=>

FREEDOM of Information Act: possible inundation of information ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
Public bodies have already received post dated requests under the forthcoming
Freedom of Information Act, highlighting concerns they could be inundated
with ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2269&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>

GOVERNMENT Plays Down File Shredding Increase
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... "I don't think we are going to see wholesale destruction certainly
of electronic records and the manual records are there to be reviewed,
in most cases ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3922629>

IS It Finally Time to Put Patients' Medical Records Online?
Forbes - USA
... Second, there's the larger issue of security on the Web, coupled with
an already-suspicious public when it comes to releasing their medical
records to anyone ...
<http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2004/12/22/hscout522415.html>

COMMISSION approves building for work on county records
Rogersville Review - Rogersville,TN,USA
... Crockett Lee, Circuit Judge Kindall Lawson, Register of Deeds Judy
Kirkpatrick ... in the courthouse basement to catalog and help preserve
the historic documents. ...
<http://hawkins.xtn.net/index.php?template=news.view.subscriber&table=news&newsid=118126>

WHITEHALL 'shredding more files'
BBC News - London,England,UK
... said he was looking into Cabinet Office orders telling staff to delete
e-mails ... the move was not about the new laws or "the destruction of
important records". ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4119823.stm>

WHITEHALL shredding files before they have to be disclosed
The Times - UK
... DTI documents were destroyed but by 2003-04 the number of records shredded
had shot up to 97,020. The Ministry of Defence doubled its destruction
of files in ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1414285,00.html>

DIVORCE Case Raises Questions on Records Law
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... was to prevent information in divorce files from being ... including
account numbers, to be redacted from the records. ... the power to seal
court documents and close ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-burkle23dec23,1,2420407.story?coll=la-news-state>

SWEEPING powers that promise to open up government are highly ...
Independent - London,England,UK
... if no request has gone in, documents could be ... expecting thousands
of demands to open their files. ... individual access to many personal
records, including medical ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=595639>

SCHWARZER United move could spark Green chase
This is London - London,England,UK
... The club have appointed an archivist, fan Ron Hockings, after they
discovered a distinct lack of valued items in their own archive. ...
<http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/football/articles/15525215>

SHREDDING is simply good housekeeping
ic CheshireOnline - UK
... Jonathan Pepler, the archivist who is helping to implement the system
at the county council, said: 'I'm not aware of any destruction.'. ...
<http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15007185&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=shredding-is-simply-good-housekeeping-name_page.html>

SHELTER for the storm of digital photos
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... you do? Some professional archivists are beginning to rely on a concept
called Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, or LOCKSS. It advocates ...
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-hm-cameras23dec23,1,1784479.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>

SUIT may have led to ID purge
Cincinnati Post - Cincinnati,OH,USA
A day after Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Greg Hartmann announced he
was removing 320,000 public documents from his Web site to protect privacy,
attorneys ...
<http://www.cincypost.com/2004/12/23/id122304.html>

PRICELESS plates pulled from the p
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
... halted the use of priceless engravings by Paul Revere to produce prints
for a $200,000 museum fund-raiser and ordered the plates returned to the
state archives ...
<http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=60293>

NATIONAL Archives says Santa once called Marshall home
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO,USA
... Information recently uncovered by the National Archives and Records
Administration shows that not only did Santa Claus really exist, but for
a time he called ...
<http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1084870.html>

SINGING detective tracks down musical legacy
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... famous composers have disappeared. Sheet music has been lost or stolen
from archives across the nation. Feinstein has uncovered ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/23/1103391887603.html>

LANSING archives find new home
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
LANSING -- If you've noticed something different near the Lansing Town
Hall -- something like a new barn, say -- it's not your imagination. ...
<http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041223/localnews/1778248.html>