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

 

SEC Says Former Mercury GC Falsified Records
Jessie Seyfer
The Securities and Exchange Commission named former Mercury Interactive general counsel Susan Skaer as a key wrongdoer in a wide-ranging lawsuit Thursday stemming from stock-option backdating.

<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1180602335756>

 

Hospitals Fear Privacy Claims Over Medical Records
Tresa Baldas

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is raising new legal fears for health care providers in light of tougher government enforcement and recent court rulings that could trigger private lawsuits.

<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1180602326927>

 

Texas AG sues Check 'n Go for exposing customers' personal ...
Orange Leader - Orange,TX,USA
... use an onsite shredder for the destruction of sensitive documents, or, if a shredder is not available, then customer records must be placed in a secure, ...<http://www.orangeleader.com/news/local_story_151233805.html>

 

'Your Archives' Open For Contributi
50 Connect - UK
Your Archives is a ground-breaking new resource, which has recently been launched as part of The National Archives´ online services. ...<http://50connect.co.uk/50c/gene.asp?article=16019>

 

StoryCorps collects and archives Cape tales
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
... Guard and he's written many books about missionaries and the missionary impact on China -- I just thought his story should be in the National Archives. ...
<http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070601/LIFE/706010302/-1/NEWS>

 

District clerk says new system protects data
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... Abbott ruled that county and district clerks had to ensure that those numbers were withheld from public documents in order to prevent identity theft. ...<http://www.elpasotimes.com/election/ci_6033575>

 

Bringing postcard history to life
Pike County Courier - USA
The team has worked for several years cataloging, cleaning and scanning the glass negatives. The collection can be viewed and prints purchased through the ...
<http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2007/06/01/pike_county_courier/news/23.txt>

 

Request made for return of records
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
The Sun Herald's request that the Justice Department be ordered to return public records to their rightful owner has a two-fold purpose to show that ...<http://www.sunherald.com/201/story/66843.html>

 

State's collective memory
Arizona Capitol Times - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Sletten is director of the state Records Management Division, part of the Arizona State Library Archives and Public Records. ... <http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/story.cfm?id=5486>

 

Internationally known archivist to be part of MTSU panel discussion
Daily News Journal (subscription) - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
"Public records -- and new records built from the people's stories when the official record is insufficient or injurious -- expose truth and give us raw ...<http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070601/LIFESTYLE/70601006>

 

2007 Review of Document Management Systems
CPA Technology Advisor - Beltsville,MD,USA
Retention features address your ability to establish a document retention policy for your firm and apply it automatically based upon the nature of the ...<http://www.cpatechnologyadvisor.com/print/The-CPA-Technology-Advisor/2007-Review-of-Document-Management-Systems/1$1588>

 

What is meant by NTFS file system?
WebKnowHow (press release) - Orland Park,IL,USA
This table is divided into some fixed size of records of 1 byte. These all records refer to some files and first 16 files are directly linked with operating ...<http://www.webknowhow.net/dir/Other_Resources/articles/070601whatismeant.html>

 

Dutch Government Orders Destruction Of Royal's Secret Papers
AHN - USA
Amsterdam, Netherlands (BANG) - All documents about the Netherlands' Royal Family will be immediately destroyed following the shock discovery of classified ..<http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007517804>

 

Winchester City Council plans to slash back its email storage
PublicTechnology.net - UK
Winchester City Council has selected Waterford Technologies's MailMeter Archive to reduce email storage and gain better control of managing emails. ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9512&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>

 

A 13 Undercover exclusive
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
Employees have been ordered to save emails at least 45 days or face potential discipline for improper destruction of a government record. ... <http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=investigative&id=5358707>

 

Sledgehammers and hard drives
Economist - UK
The delete function only removes file names from a directory list and makes the sectors that the files occupy on the hard drive available for future use. ...<http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9276300>

 

Fizzy price may greet missing Coke-ad art
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Coke archivist Phil Mooney poses near Rockwell painting, "Barefoot Boy," at the Coke museum in Atlanta. The company is seeking three other works. ... <http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_6023238>

 

Museum-boss-in-chief Heads Home
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
(US News) The archivist who has brought us two of the hippest presidential libraries and museums--those of former Presidents Bush and Clinton—is retiring ...<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/01/usnews/whispers/main2877094.shtml>

 

Former Rockland Historical Society curator charged in theft of ...
The Journal News / Lohud.com - Westchester,NY,USA
NEW CITY - A former Rockland Historical Society curator surrendered yesterday to face allegations that she stole a rare book and tried to sell it. ...<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070601/NEWS03/706010427/1019>

 

Historical Society fighting to restore grant money
Examiner.com – USA
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The Historical Society of Washington, DC, continued this week to plead with DC Council members to restore a $500000 grant they ...
<http://www.examiner.com/a-758093~Historical_Society_fighting_to_restore_grant_money.html>

 

DCI investigating missing coins at Historical Society
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA,USA
By Matt Kelley. The state Division of Criminal Investigation is launching a probe into the disappearance of more than two-dozen rare and valuable coins from ...
<http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=E837F092-AA7E-75AB-9FD81F2436C4D663>

 

Manager Pleads Guilty To Stealing Info On 200000 Patients
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
A DVD stolen from the San Jose Medical Group contained patients' names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, ...<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199900207>

 

El Paso County Tries To Prevent Identity Theft
KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA
He also said I-Docket.com is providing the software that eliminates Social Security numbers from court records, and the system is now online in El Paso ...<http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/13430472/detail.html>

 

Fresno County searches for disk with employees' personal info
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
County officials are looking for a missing computer disk that contained the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information of ...<http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6038540>

 

Marilyn Monroe And The Sensational Lost and Found Photo Archive!
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Mr. Anthony has decided that Mr. Bellinghaus is the perfect match for this prized archive, because of the important victories that Mr. Bellinghaus achieved ...
<http://www.pr-inside.com/marilyn-monroe-and-the-sensational-lost-r141538.htm>

 

ATAS archive preserves voices of generations
Hollywood Reporter - Los Angeles,CA,USA
When Karen Herman, director of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's Archive of American Television, interviewed Dr. Robert Adler, ...
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/columns/tv_reporter/e3ib2695ccf8db3426dd0d65c2be8ec3848>

 

A Nation's Lost Holocaust History, Now on Display
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Some of Vienna's Holocaust-era files can already be viewed on microfilm at the Holocaust museum in Washington and at the Central Archives for the History of ...<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/arts/design/02holo.html?ref=arts>

 

Railroad history rescued in Warwick
Warwick Advertiser - USA
Rescuing these valuable historical records came down to one phone call from Orange County Community College to the railroad group that a storage unit had to ...<http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2007/06/02/warwick_advertiser/news/2.txt>

 

The leader's way: How GE safeguards vital information
Economic Times - India
Gopichand Katragadda, operations manager, JFWTC tells ET how strict processes and training have helped GE protect its IP and prevent corporate espionage. .<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2092971.cms>

 

Byrne's memos calling for openness
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
Her letter said the system "complies with the open records law" but also directed personnel not to provide drafts of system reports to the media before they ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1180775969173300.xml&coll=3>


 

Cuyahoga Spoliation Could Be Costly In Baumgartner Case
North Country Gazette - Chestertown,NY,USA
... additional forfeiture award for the city's unlawful destruction of records under RC 149.351, the jury determined that Kish's and Elder's discarded files ...<http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/2007/06/02/destroying_records/>

 

Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond Va




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