Arizona Republic
Legislature OKs $2 million to plan
new archives facility
Amanda J. Crawford
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 29, 2004 12:00
AM
The state House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved $2 million for the design and planning of a new state archives building on the Capitol mall.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0429archives29.html

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/042804_archives.html



Times Leader
Archivists deluged with Bethlehem Steel's
140-year paper trail
MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press
EASTON, Pa. - Bethlehem Steel is gone, but its storied history lives on in the millions of pages of records,
films, photographs and artifacts being painstakingly documented by a tiny group of historians and archivists.
Working out of a nondescript cinder-block building along an alley here, the group has been processing
truckloads of material, more than it can keep up with. The pace has accelerated with the ongoing liquidation
of Bethlehem Steel by International Steel Group, the Cleveland-based company that scooped up the defunct
company's assets last year.
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/8541987.htm



Daily Yomiuri
Imanishi archives to be put on Net
Yomiuri Shimbun
A Canadian professor who has assembled an extensive collection of lecture notes,
field notes, photos and works written by Kinji Imanishi--the founder of
primatology in Japan who argued that nature was inherently harmonious rather
than competitive--plans to make the archives available on the Internet, possibly
as early as this year.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040430wo61.htm



Forward
Racing To Rescue Shoah Evidence
By Sara Bloomfield
April 30, 2004
That the Holocaust was one of history's most well-documented crimes is well-known.
But few people know just how much documentation — "evidence" of the crime —
remains yet to be identified.
Finding these original materials, preserving them and making them available for
research is fundamental to the mission of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum. But with the eyewitness generation diminishing, and all these materials in a
state of natural deterioration, rescuing the evidence is a race against time.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=bloomfield200404291111 (



The Union Democrat
Planner's past still in question
Published: April 28, 2004
By SCOTT PESZNECKER
Calaveras County's new planning director calls his most
recent job application "100 percent verifiable."
But that's not the case with a resume he submitted earlier this
year.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=14035



The Orion
Burying memories to dig up in future
Amy O"Neill
Staff Writer
April 28, 2004
Mario Sagustume is graduating in May, and he can't help but think of the
future.
But the A.S. commissioner of activity fees is thinking ahead a little further
than most: about 50 years ahead to be exact, because of his responsibility of
putting together the 2004 Chico State time capsule.
http://www.orion-online.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/28/40901633778a0 (



Kanagawa police: Oops! We `mistakenly' junked records
The Asahi Shimbun
Documents are destroyed amid a crackdown on police departments that skim funds.
YOKOHAMA-Amid a spate of scandals over bilked funds at regional police departments,
Kanagawa prefectural police destroyed volumes of account records before a five-year
storage period lapsed.
According to the Kanagawa prefectural police, the destroyed records were for fiscal 1998,
which ended in March 1999.
http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200404290136.html (



Daily Courier
Fayette County seeks grant to fund Web site
By David Hunt
For the Daily Courier
Thursday, April 29, 2004
UNIONTOWN -- Fayette County officials are seeking a state grant to build a Web
site that one day may become a virtual repository for countless volumes of
information shelved at the courthouse.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_191710.html



Virginian Pilot
In Suffolk, sharing city budget plan takes a driving force
By JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE
SUFFOLK — Now and then the government here has a proposal it needs to get
into the people’s hands – a neat trick in a city so geographically huge.
On Wednesday , it was a $277.3 million operating budget proposal the City
Council will soon consider. It needed to be delivered, as near as it can be, to tens of
thousands of taxpayers scattered throughout this 430 -square-mile city.
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=69639&ran=164718



The Sun News
ACLU suit questions FBI methods of
attaining records
Group: Patriot Act prevented disclosure
By Dan Eggen
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed Wednesday that it filed a lawsuit three
weeks ago challenging the FBI's methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from
revealing even the existence of the case until now.
The lawsuit was filed April 6 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, but the case was kept under seal to avoid
violating secrecy rules contained in the USA Patriot Act, the ACLU said. The group was allowed to release a
redacted version of the lawsuit after weeks of negotiations with the government.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/8546975.htm



Washington Post
U.S. Files First 'Can-Spam' Charges
By Ted Bridis
AP Technology Writer
Thursday, April 29, 2004; 3:00 PM
The government's first criminal case under a new law
outlawing some types of spam e-mails was based on
low-tech investigative methods: Authorities followed the
money.
Investigators said Thursday they tracked defendants by
purchasing a weight-loss product for $59.95 and waited to
see who collected the money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53419-2004Apr29.html



Providence Journal
N.H. court says felon who fled caused his own predicament
The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A man who can't appeal his sexual assault conviction because
trial records were destroyed caused his own predicament by fleeing, the state Supreme
Court said Thursday.
Alex Brenes claims there was insufficient evidence for his 1992 conviction. But tapes
from which a transcript could have been made were routinely destroyed after 10 years,
giving the court no way to judge the claim, the court ruled unanimously Thursday.
http://www.projo.com/ap/ne/1083244732.htm



The Daily Journal
MART one step closer to records
By LISA GRZYBOSKI
Staff Writer; [log in to unmask]
VINELAND -- The city cannot prohibit a local soil
recycling company from obtaining government
documents simply because it is suing the city, its
health department and mayor, a U.S. District Court
ruled Tuesday.
Mid Atlantic Recycling Technologies Inc. is like any
other individual or business, and has the right to
receive public information in a timely manner, Judge
Ann Marie Donio stated in her 15-page decision.
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/news/stories/20040429/localnews/315332.html



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Judge orders Sewickley Valley YMCA to
release records
Thursday, April 29, 2004
By Alisha Hipwell
On the legal front, a group trying to save a small fitness center has won a round in
its battle with the Sewickley Valley YMCA.
The group is also fighting on the political front, posting 10 candidates for the
YMCA board of directors election scheduled for today.
The legal victory came April 19, when Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge
Timothy Patrick O'Reilly ordered the Sewickley Valley YMCA to turn over
financial and administrative records to Save Our Fitness Center.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04120/307430.stm



The Phoenix
Covering a multitude of sins
In its unprecedented drive for greater government secrecy, the Bush administration is hiding vital
information under the cloak of national security — leaving the nation stumbling in the dark
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/03789077.asp



The Journal Standard
FOIA request brings 'dilemma'
Pet waste contractor seeking names of county dog owners for marketing purposes
By Travis Morse, The Journal-Standard
FREEPORT -- The Stephenson County Administration Committee may soon decide whether to release the
names and addresses of county dog owners to a private businessman requesting the information for marketing
purposes.
The county has to determine if releasing the information is required by law or if the request constitutes an
invasion of privacy and should be denied.
http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2004/04/28/local_news/news21.txt



Orlando Sentinel
House tries to curtail public records
By Bob Mahlburg | Tallahassee Bureau
Posted April 29, 2004
TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida House agreed
Wednesday to make the records of medical
"near misses" secret and gave preliminary
approval to a measure blocking access to
Social Security numbers for all teachers and
state employees.
Critics called both bills a blow to Florida's
tradition of open government.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-locrecords29042904apr29,1,6728335.story?



Honolulu Advertiser
Public records bill advances at Capitol
By Lynda Arakawa
Advertiser Capitol Bureau
A bill targeting "vexatious" requesters of public records received preliminary approval
yesterday and is headed to the House and Senate chambers for final floor votes.
A House-Senate conference committee approved a draft of Senate Bill 3185, which would
allow the state Office of Information Practices to declare someone a "vexatious requester,"
and limit that person's requests for certain government records.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Apr/29/ln/ln29a.html



CRN
EMC Discusses Information Life-Cycle
Strategy, Road Map
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN
3:29 PM EST Thurs., Apr. 29, 2004
EMC is aiming to become the leading supplier in the
information life-cycle management market, and is focusing
its software development on that goal.
That is the message Mark Lewis, executive vice president
of open software at EMC, gave to a crowd of IT
administrators during his keynote at the EMC Technical
Symposium, held this week in Orlando, Fla.
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=49818



CIOinsight
Instant Messaging: IM Here to Stay
By Debra D'Agostino
Once a rogue application mostly used to chat with
friends, instant messaging is finally taking hold for
legitimate business communications. But with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that
messages need to be archived just like e-mail, IM
networks need to be managed carefully.
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1570390,00.asp (



Express Computer
Managing archival data
With the glut of data in businesses, which has only worsened because of new laws
that require e-mail communication to be stored for years, managing data isn’t easy.
Sudhakar Rao provides some solutions
In today’s business environment information and data have become the most
important corporate assets. This has given a huge impetus to the storage solutions
market. However, with an exponential growth of data, it is becoming increasingly
difficult to store and manage archival data. It has become all the more problematic
because both structured and unstructured data has become an integral part of today’s
business.
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20040503/opinion03.shtml



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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