RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news 
stories from around the world.

ADDING more bite to state's commitment to open records
Seattle Times - USA
... I am committed to creating a "culture of compliance," where citizens
can expect a prompt reply to a public-records request, or a clear 
explanation
as to why it ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002182112_mckenna17.html>


OLD FILM ARCHIVES OPENED UP
Isle of Man - UK
... Archivist at Manx National Heritage Wendy Thirkettle said: 'Without
giving the entire programme away I hope that the audience will find it
a varied and ...
<http://www.iomonline.co.im/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=870&ArticleID=947840>


A star is archived
San Antonio Current - San Antonio,TX,USA
... keeping all these things locked up in his room," says Brother Robert
Wood, archivist at St ... Mary's, used the archives to inform her 2003
one-woman show His Polita ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13971542&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6

JUNIOR looks into Trumbull's past
Yale Daily News - USA
... copies of the Yale Daily News and browses books in the archives of
the ... William Massa, a Trumbull fellow and an archivist at Sterling
Memorial Library, has been ...
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=28459>


PRESERVING a legacy
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... everything.". She has met Hollings only once, but she knows he is 
keenly
interested and appreciative of the work of the archivists. ...
<http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/living/10916604.htm>


PROVINCE launches memory project for vets
National Post - Canada
Veterans will meet with archivists and military history experts in eight
communities across the province to tell their war stories. ...
<http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=5a1e2dac-c2fe-43cb-b10e-93ab98ceb158>


ARMY says it failed to train archivist as promised
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
The army has conceded it failed to provide promised training to its 
Waiouru
museum archivist, Dolores Ho. The admission was made ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3191365a11,00.html>


SECURITY at risk from failure to wipe disks
VNUNet.com - UK
... have appropriate procedures in place to ensure that personal records
on computer hard ... have a duty to store personal information securely
and delete it when it ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/analysis/1161310>


DIRE data destruction creates security nightmare
SC Magazine - London,UK
... of 111 hard drives, uncovered financial accounts, school records and
personal ... not understanding the complex procedures needed to properly
delete computer files ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID=ec7c66d2-1f4e-47e8-ac9e-9d59b8cfe24c&newsType=News>


CIBC turns up heat as fight with Genuity hits home
Globe and Mail - Canada
... The bank claims Mr. Lindner sent two months' worth of trading 
records
for CIBC's ... You should go into your bb contacts and delete this 
address
right now dammit!". ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050217/RCIBC17/TPBusiness/Canadian>


10 more Crown corporations will have to open records
CBC Calgary - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
OTTAWA - Ten more Crown agencies will come under public scrutiny as 
Ottawa
reforms the act that grants access to government information, Treasury
Board ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/17/crown-act-new050217.html>

STUDENTS accuse UI breaking open records law
Cedar Rapids Gazette - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
... Two University of Iowa students say the UI is refusing to fully 
disclose
records related to animal research at the UI in violation of the Iowa
Open Records Law ...
<http://www.gazetteonline.com/article.aspx?art_id=95670&cat_id=1>


PASADENA council gives initial OK to hire consulting firm
Houston Chronicle - USA
... Tanner Consulting, owned by Eric C. Tanner, a certified records 
manager,
was not the lowest bidder among four firms that responded to the city's
request for ...
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/thisweek/politics/3042450>


-MOBILE hacker pleads guilty
Register - London,England,UK
... Court records suggest the hacker was in T-Mobile's ... investigators
link him to sensitive agency documents that were ... The files were 
traced
to Peter Cavicchia, a ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/17/t-mobile_hacker_pleads_guilty/>


PICKFORDS assist Fuji Xerox with document management
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... Zealand division decided to convert its manual hard copy records to
electronic documents recently, however ... take at least a year to 
change
20,000 files to the ...
<http://www.istart.co.nz/index/HM20/CCS29/CS26582>


MASS. bends Microsoft: Tech giant to open code on public docs
Boston Herald - USA
... is allowing open access to some of its key licensed products for use
with public documents ranging from birth certificates to property 
records,
state officials ...
<http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=69024>


LIBRARY interest indicated
The Shorthorn - Arlington,TX,USA
The city hopes to become the Bush library's home and share in the 
benefits.
Arlington could be home to the future George W. Bush Presidential 
Library.
...
<http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/2005/spring/05-feb-17/n021705-04.html>

CHOICEPOINT discloses identity theft
CNN - USA
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - ChoicePoint Inc., a national provider of 
identification
and credential verification services, says a group of well-organized 
criminals
...
<http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/technology/personaltech/choicepoint/>


IDENTITY Thieves Exploit Weak Point in ChoicePoint
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
... fashioned con, thieves posing as legitimate businesses were able to
extract the personal information of thousands of consumers from 
ChoicePoint,
which stores ...
<http://www.technewsworld.com/story/news/40683.html>


ID Data Conned From Firm
BizReport - USA
by Robert O'Harrow Jr. ChoicePoint Inc. ... Corporate headquarters of 
ChoicePoint,
a Georgia company that was tricked into giving out personal records. ...
<http://www.bizreport.com/news/8688/>


CHOICEPOINT: 'Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised'
Insurance Journal - USA
ChoicePoint's Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance 
industry
databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring
that ...
<http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2005/02/17/51639.htm>


PERSONAL details up for grabs
DeHavilland - UK
Financial accounts, school records containing children's details and 
personal
information ... disks obtained from a company that specialises in data
destruction. ...
< 
http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage&ItemID=7824337&ServiceID=8&filterid=10&searchid=8>



BILL aims to close gaps in Freedom of Information law
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
WASHINGTON A bill to close gaps in the Freedom of Information Act and 
speed
release of government documents was introduced today in Washington. ...
<http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2959934>


INFOSHRED LLC purchases Secure Document Destruction
Waste News - Akron,OH,USA
Feb. 17 -- Infoshred LLC of South Windsor, Conn., recently purchased 
Secure
Document Destruction, a New Haven, Conn.-based shredding company. ...
<http://www.wastenews.com/headlines2.html?id=1108661024>

SEM Delivers A Better Way To Destroy Government Documents
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
Security Engineered Machinery, the largest direct supplier of document
destruction equipment in the US, announced the Model 1200 CD Media 
Eraser
and ...
<http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=48268&DE=1>


Digital Video Editing, Thu, 17 Feb 2005 8:52 AM PST
The Big Restoration Question 
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=30674
The Big Restoration Question Digital or Photochemical? Film & Video 
Magazine The
New York facility Cineric has long been a destination for restoration 
of
Hollywood pictures, buffing up some 200 titles a year.


Lincoln Journal Star
Ruling: City owes thousands in unpaid wages
By BUTCH MABIN / Lincoln Journal Star
Maybe its all those years he spent as a white-collar crime detective. 
Or maybe Marlin Rauscher was just born that way. Whatever the cause, 
the retired Lincoln detective's keen appreciation for written records — 
and penchant for holding onto them — served him well with the Nebraska 
Supreme Court this month.



Thanks largely to decades-old pay stubs and a city personnel director's 
1975 memorandum, the court ruled Feb. 4 the city owed Rauscher $2,685 
in unpaid wages.
<http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/02/14/local/doc420fe5389eb75346169259.txt>
The Daily
CIA looks into papers donated to University
<http://thedaily.washington.edu/past_all.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=Articles&-response=newspage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=11849&-search>


Houston Business Journal
It's a lock
Data storage company VeriTrust has proved a safe bet for 
security-minded clients
<http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/01/31/smallb1.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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