RAIN 060602
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Local history unit axed after two decades
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... It also indexed old newspapers and digitised trade directories, 
making
archive information much ... City archivist Martin Taylor was one of 
many
to express their ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1084&Article
ID=1540939>

School administrator fired, accused of shredding documents
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... at UMDNJ's School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, was fired 
after
the FBI raided his campus office last month to stop shredding of 
documents
sought by ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--umdnj0602jun0
2,0,1696108.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey>

Industrial espionage made easy
MyADSL - Melville,South Africa
... Shredding devices have six grades. Six is the most effective, but 
three
is the most common. Any documents shredded by a machine below level five
can be ...
<http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=3022>

Ex-Employees' Personal Information Stolen
Houston Chronicle - United States
... The laptop was lost "and may have been stolen" May 2 during a 
commercial
flight between Philadelphia and Boston, Walton said. She ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/3923281.html>

Veterans, thieves and trial lawyers
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
On Wednesday, the Associated Press revealed that the laptop stolen by 
the
Aspen Hill burglar or burglars also contains phone numbers and addresses
of an ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060601-085038-7557r.htm>

Laptop with data on 65,000 YMCA members stolen from RI office
Boston Globe - United States
... Police do not suspect that the laptop was stolen by anyone who works
at the YMCA, but believe the thief broke into the building and then the
locked office ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/06/02/laptop
_with_data_on_65000_ymca_members_stolen_from_ri_office>

Jackson mayor, CL reach agreement on records
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... Mayor Frank Melton and The Clarion-Ledger today agreed to an 
out-of-court
settlement that would force the city to comply with the state’s public
records laws ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/NEWS/60
602006>

Time Passages Couple saves county records in digital medium for ...
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
... husband, Waldo Wilde, 70, have been working in Maine - far away from
their El Dorado, Calif., home - organizing and photographing public 
documents
that date ...
<http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=135228>

Identity Thieves Find New, Legal Methods to Cheat
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
... “They were mining our site, looking, perusing the public documents,
and finding traffic tickets and other records that had Social Security
numbers attached ...
<http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/usnews/060602c.asp>

Wrong fax number lands Texans' private information in Seattle
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
AUSTIN -- Scores of confidential documents containing medical and 
financial
information about people applying for state benefits wound up in a 
Seattle
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_HHSC_Fax_Problems.html>

Wallace fired by UMDNJ
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... $200,000 in extravagances and directed a subordinate to doctor 
financial
records to help ... acting on a tip that Wallace's secretary was 
shredding
papers related ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/NEW
S01/606020371/1006>

Loan records vanish: 1.3 million files include Texas students' ...
TMCnet - USA
... The current estimate of missing records represents about 10 percent
of the company's ... because the companies are still working to identify
which files were on ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-loan-records-vanish-13-million-files-incl
ude-texas-/2006/06/02/1667270.htm>


Medicare Beneficiary Data Left in Hotel
Washington Post - United States
... up the data through a hotel computer and then failed to delete the
file ... the ability of companies to gather and make sense of public 
records,
criminal histories ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR200606
0201279.html>

Cuts fear for Scotland's archives
BBC News - UK
... Edinburgh's city archives are closed and the archivists in Argyll 
and
Bute and Dumfries and Galloway were not replaced by full-time staff when
they retired. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5039294.stm>

A top dean at UMDNJ fired after raid by FBI
Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
... and Dentistry of New Jersey was fired yesterday, amid a criminal 
investigation
into the shredding of documents ... His computer and other files were
later seized. ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-7/114922407541240.xml
&coll=1>

Museum Gets $100,000 Grant
Radio World - Falls Church,VA,USA
... The museum on North State Street will include interactive exhibits,
archives, working radio and television studios and a gift shop.
<http://www.rwonline.com/dailynews/one.php?id=9105>

Tribeca’s music archives on sale
Downtown Express - USA
The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which aims to collect two copies of
all popular recordings released in America since 1950, will be hosting
its semi-annual ...
<http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_160/tribecasmusic.html>

Ransom gets digital
Hindustan Times - India
... Archiveus copies all of the files in the victim's "My Documents" 
folder
to a new folder and then it scrambles them with an encryption program
protected by a 30 ...
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7752_1711524,000200170001.htm>


Study: Men a bigger insider threat to UK businesses than women
SC Magazine - London,UK
... A third of respondents admitting that they would access documents,
files, customer details and old accounts from previous employers if they
still had access. ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/562567/study+men+bigger+inside
r+threat+uk+businesses+women/>

RedNova, Thu, 01 Jun 2006 6:17 PM PDT
The Kansas City Star, Mo., Steve Kraske Column: Taxpayers Ought Not Pay
to Fuzz
Up History
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/523334/the_kansas_city_star_mo_st

eve_kraske_column_taxpayers_ought/index.html?source=r_technology
By Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star, Mo. May 28--At Richard Nixon's
presidential library in Southern California, the Watergate case is
treated as
little more than a kooky fluke.

Sun-Sentinel, Tue, 30 May 2006 9:31 PM PDT
Courthouse documents in Broward County going digital, viewable online
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-sdigit31may31,0,715177

7.story?coll=sfla-news-broward
Want to see your divorce decree, your neighbor's marriage license or
that judgment against your boss?




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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