Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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WAYNE County, Mich., Register of Deeds' Office Contracts For $5 ...
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... The Register of Deeds' Office currently processes over 2,500 
documents
each day and is the nation's 10th largest county with a population of
2,028,778 ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/96585>

LIVES and History Adrift on a Soggy Paper Trail
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... "We don't have deeds in New ... Poydras Street, at the Amoco 
Building,
the Notarial Archives maintains an equally large collection of older 
documents,
some dating ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-paper9sep09,0,43153
9.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

OCEANSIDE to make records more accessible
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Documents can be searched by date, keyword, or both ... pier, the 
city
clerk's office provided city officials and Manchester with digital 
copies
of deeds and titles ...
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/09/09/news/coastal/21_46_089_8_05.t
xt>

BERGER fined $50,000 for taking documents
Indianapolis Star - United States
Washington -- A federal judge Thursday ordered former national security
adviser Sandy Berger to pay a $50,000 fine and give up his security 
clearance
for three ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050909/NEWS06/50909
0550/1012>

LOST legal records mean chaos for courts
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... 25. ''The destruction and disruption of services and ... The FBI 
office
in New Orleans had wind and water damage that soaked case files and 
other
key records. ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3013688>

LIVES and History Adrift on a Soggy Paper Trail
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... "The records are all there up until the point that the facilities 
lost
power," said ... With so much destruction, each scrap has become a 
memento
of a past world. ...
<http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-na-paper9sep09,0,1472452.story?coll=ktla-new
s-1>

LIKE Much Of Gulf Coast, Katrina Leaves Legal System In Shambles
TheDay (subscription) - New London,CT,USA
... the destruction of homes and neighborhoods and lives, Hurricane 
Katrina
decimated the legal system of the New Orleans area, obliterating courts
and records and ...
<http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=7C8D684F-5433-46F4-A8B5-A0
735CFA56CD>

ECONTENT and the Law Practice
EContent (press release) - Wilton,CT,USA
... she says, emphasizing that companies must define what records are 
before
... of custody, a record of edocumentation viewers, and prevent 
inadvertent
 destruction. ...
<http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=13479>

LOCKHEED Martin to build National Archives e-records system
ComputerWorld - USA
to build the federal agency's Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system.
The new system will capture, preserve and manage electronic ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,104509,00
.html>

DATA Protection Act - Protecting What?
Computer Business Review - UK
... iii) The increased use of structured recording on Electronic Records
Management (ERM) systems, which (quite rightly) make ?hiding' 
information
more ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/bgblog.asp?show=butler_group/2005/09/data_prote
ction.html>

NO longer lost
Freeport Journal Standard - Freeport,IL,USA
... They have a haunting quality.". Stephenson County Historical Society
workers found a cache of glass negatives in 1997 in the museum's attic.
...
<http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2005/09/09/daily_features/look/l
ook01.txt>

AUDITOR indicted
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Miller helped those officials conceal the alleged theft by changing
computer records at the request of former superintendent Frank Tassone,
prosecutors said. ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-lirosl094417765se
p09,0,5446582.story?coll=ny-linews-print>


FORMER Technology Manager Convicted of Hacking
AXcess News - Carson City,NV,USA
... involvement. Evidence was also presented that Shea deleted computer
records concerning his command history of access to the time bomb. ...
<http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=5571>

TECH: Disaster recovery
Health Care Blog - USA
Not only will Charity Hospital and University Hospital in New Orleans 
never
reopen in their same place, but they have lost all their computer 
records.
...
<http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2005/09/tech_disaste
r_r.html>

STORM Leaves Legal System a Shambles
New York Times - United States
... More than a third of the state's lawyers have lost their offices, 
some
for good. Most computer records will be saved. Many other records will
be lost forever. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09legal.html>


SANDY Berger fined $50,000 for taking documents
CNN - USA
... Thursday to community service and probation and fined $50,000 for 
illegally
removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and 
intentionally
...
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/08/berger.sentenced/>

STORAGE files not on block
Bridgeton News - NJ, United States
... I was lucky through word-of-mouth to find this document destruction
company, Romano Instant Document Destruction.". D'Arrigo Jr. ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1126258872
6020.xml&coll=10>

IDENTITY theft major threat for military members
Marines.com - USA
... using their names, but they are responsible for notifying their 
creditors
and restoring their credit records, which can ... "Doing things like 
shredding
your mail ...
<http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/F53CBBBF10FFE23185257077
006ECDCD?opendocument>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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