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Stuff, Sat, 04 Mar 2006 2:42 PM PST
Lange release sparks Archives NZ lock-down
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3593871a11,00.html
Archives NZ has blocked access to the papers of all politicians since
1939 until its staff and the government's electronic spying agency 
ensure they do
not contain any top secret information.

FILE cabinets escape File 13
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
... Houston headquarters and a speaker on the advantages of e-mail and
electronic data storage. ... So the law firm is storing its paper 
records
out of sight, but not ...
<http://www.roanoke.com/business%5Cwb/55363>

A records task
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA
... information in these days of high-tech identity theft, and Florida's
... Included are business trade secrets, medical information, building
security plans and the ...
<http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/NEWS/203050385/
1001/news01>

THE cases your judges are hiding from you
Seattle Times - United States
... and juvenile court listing such priors as theft and trying ... 
account
numbers; personal information about children; psychiatric records; 
legitimate
trade secrets. ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002845009_seal05m.html>


PACIFIC Beach Club: Remnants of a dream
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
... the short-lived Pacific Beach Club since his boss, county archivist
Phil Brigandi ... Researchers at the Orange County Archives, part of the
clerk-recorder's office ...
<http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1029995.php>

BLOCKS PUT ON ARCHIVE PAPERS
TMCnet - USA
... will now be checked by Government Communications Security Bureau and
Archives staff to ... Chief archivist Dianne Macaskill said the move was
in response to its ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-blocks-put-archive-papers-/2006/03/04/142
9159.htm>

SHREDDING service offered by new company
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... also offers companies one-time "purges," in which multiple boxes of
files or documents ... who had left their corporate jobs and started a
mobile shredding firm ...
<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/147-03052006-621604.html>

ARCHIVES NZ to vet release of government files
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
... of government ministers for classified material. The move follows 
the
inadvertent release of top secret documents in the so-called Lange 
papers,
which detailed ...
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/radionz/200603051158/150a19fc>

CHANGES planned for 10th anniversary of Bush Library and Museum
Bryan College Station Eagle - TX, United States
By LAURA HENSLEY. More than 1 million visitors have walked through the
exhibits at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum since it 
opened
in 1997. ...
<http://www.theeagle.com/stories/030506/am_20060305001.php>

BC accidentally auctions medical records
CTV.ca - Canada
A man who purchased 41 tapes from the BC government found himself the 
unexpected
owner of 77,000 personal medical files. The tapes included records such
as HIV ...
<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060305/medical_rec
ords_060305/20060305?hub=Canada>

OUR battle against secrecy in county's legal system
Seattle Times - United States
... meticulous work. Armstrong spent months probing computer records and
shelved paper files at the King County Superior Court. The ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002845059_fancher05.htm
l>

BC to probe auctioned health records
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... said there are detailed protocols in place for the securing of 
records
and the ... the government made no attempt to erase or destroy any of
the files and they ...
<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=3d2a8c57-2d1d-4
d0f-b729-5d09cf2aec1a&k=93229>


EDITORIAL for March 5, 2006
Middletown Journal - Middletown,OH,USA
... The solution seems simple. State officials must revamp record 
keeping
in a manner that separates individuals' confidential data from public
documents. ...
<http://www.middletownjournal.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2006/
03/05/mj030506editorial.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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