Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.
NATIONAL Archives launches formal investigation into missing ...
JURIST's Paper Chase - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
[JURIST] The National Archives [official website] began an investigation
Wednesday into the disappearance of a file containing papers authored
by US Supreme ...
<http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/national-archives-launches-formal.php>

ARCHIVES Investigates Loss of Roberts File
New York Times - United States
... 17 - The National Archives started a formal investigation Wednesday
into the loss of a file of Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s papers on 
affirmative
action from ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/politics/18roberts.html>

VENICE council cool to archives plan
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
VENICE -- The Venice Historical Society's request that the city spend 
roughly
$1 million to expand its archives received a tepid response from City
Council ...
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS/508170377/1006/SPORTS>

TUNING maid storage for backup and archive data
eBCVG - USA
Archive data have long lifetimes, so an archive storage system needs to
ensure data retention over long periods without disrupting availability.
...
<http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=845>

MANATEE leading online records crusade
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
MANATEE - Local court officials plan to start combing through millions
of electronic records, looking to remove Social Security numbers and 
other
sensitive ...
<http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/12412418.htm>

UNPUZZLING the Past
Fairfax Connection - VA,USA
... took this information to the Fairfax Court House historical archives
where courthouse ... of voter,'" said Brian Conley, historian and photo
archivist for Fairfax ...
<http://www.connectionnewspaper 
s.com/article.asp?article=54676&paper=63&cat=104>


STRATEGIES for Protecting Laptop Data
CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... If an encrypted laptop is stolen, the perpetrators can't access the
data or they can't use the machine unless they swap out the drive or 
reformat
it. ...
<http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=37841>

FINNS urge better Wi-Fi security after bank break-in
ComputerWorld - USA
... The money, which has since been recovered, was stolen from one of GE
 ... Accomplices then accessed the account from a laptop computer using
an unprotected network ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,104005,00.html>

TSA Data Dump Leads to Lawsuit
Wired News - USA
... "Until the court has determined that they conducted an adequate 
search
for my clients' documents, I think the document destruction should 
cease,"
said attorney ...
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68560,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3>

COMCAST Files Suit Against Ex-Manager
Washington Post - United States
... Khalatbari did not respond to phone messages or an e-mail seeking 
comment
yesterday, and no one answered the door at what is listed in public 
records
as her ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com 
/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081701938.html>

SHOULD the cabinets be kept shut?
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Even if the files aren't court records, Watler argued, keeping them
secret would be detrimental to the public health or safety -- a standard
contained in the ...
< http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/12414224.htm>

AGENCY brings past forward to digital age
Ironton Tribune - Ironton,OH,USA
... "Or, if you don't need the papers back, we'll take care of the 
shredding.".
Malone said the conversion to CDs will protect the files from being 
destroyed
by ...
<http://www.irontontribune.com/articles/2005/08/18/news/news417.txt>


PROTECTING e-mail from prying eyes
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... increasingly large amounts of free storage, the incentive to delete
e-mails ... Unless Congress strengthens laws to protect these records
from prying eyes, the ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/12412915.htm>

WITNESS: Lake obsessed over pay
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA
... Ginsberg testified he was working on a plan to delete all company e
... On company records, the reasons listed for the flights were company
business, Ginsberg said. ...
<http://cjonline.com/stories/081805/loc_wittiglake.shtml>

NEWSPAPERS saved from extinction
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... save some 1,326 of the most endangered UK local newspapers. The 
project
preserves the titles onto 35mm archival-standard microfilm.
<http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1805702005>

ABBITEK Adds Document Management to Microsoft CRM
Press Dispensary - Brighton,UK
... Laserfiche gives users the flexibility and portability of paper 
documents,
while adding the enormous advantage of digital storage. ...
<http://www.pressdispensary.co.uk/releases/c99503.php>

FOLLOW-UP on trashed medical records
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Paton says. Paton says it's fortunate that so far, no irreversible
harm has come from the trashed medical records. In the meantime ...
<http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3735573>

MAMMOGRAMS locked behind doors of shuttered office
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... Weg's patients were surprised to find the doors to his West Nyack 
office
locked last month with no information about medical records. ...
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050818/NEWS03/508180358/1027/NEWS11>


RedNova, Thu, 18 Aug 2005 1:20 PM PDT
Comcast Files Suit Against Ex-Manager
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id!2572&source=r_technology
Comcast of Montgomery County has filed a federal lawsuit against a
senior manager who resigned this month to join Verizon Communications,
alleging that she e-mailed herself proprietary information about 
Comcast for use in
her new job.

Wired
E-Mail Thief Pays the Price
A former America Online software engineer was sentenced Wednesday to a 
year and three months in
prison for stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and 
selling them to spammers who sent
out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mails.
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68557,00.html>

Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Beverly ordered to pay $20 million
Bond
BY CRISTAL CODY
Supreme Court ordered Beverly Enterprises Inc. on Monday to comply with 
a judge?s ruling to post a $20 million bond for failing to produce 
documents in a lawsuit.
<http://nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=Business&storyid=124479>

Computerworld 7/26/05
The Billion-Dollar Data Storage Error
Advice by Elizabeth Charnock, Cataphora
JULY 26, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Wall Street banking giant Morgan 
Stanley recently suffered an adverse $1.45 billion court judgment, 
which contributed to a change in leadership at the top. The turning 
point? The judge's ruling that Morgan Stanley had acted in "bad faith" 
in failing to turn over relevant e-mails. "The storage folks found an 
additional 1,600 backup tapes in a closet," explained a Morgan Stanley 
executive.
<http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,103478,00.html>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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