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

The Guardian
Give us back our crown jewels
Our taxes fund the collection of public data - yet we pay again to 
access it. Make the data freely available to stimulate innovation, 
argue Charles Arthur and Michael Cross
<http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html>

Citibank uncovers debit card fraud
Chicago Tribune - United States
... breach, Citibank's reaction illustrates the heightened sensitivity
over lost or stolen data. ... their names and account numbers were in
a company laptop swiped in ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/local/chi-0603090170mar09,1,102
6651.story?coll=chi-technologylocal-hed>

Drive to Shred Documents Puts Kids and Pets at Risk
Washington Post - United States
As worries about identity theft have driven millions of Americans to buy
document-shredding machines, safety officials and pediatricians are 
warning
they can ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/08/AR200603
0802343.html>

FBI retires its Carnivore
SF.Indymedia.org - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Two reports to Congress obtained by the Washington-based Electronic
Privacy Information Center under the Freedom of Information Act reveal
that the FBI didn't ...
<http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725429.php>

City postpones shut down of e-mail site
Jacksonville Business Journal - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... Though it has not routinely done so in the past, the city has the 
option
under state law to charge fees for providing electronic records. ...
<http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2006/03/06/dail
y16.html?jst=b_ln_hl>

Trusted bank clerk was 'the ringleader in £400,000 fraud'
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... and had access to the computerised files of literally ... 
fingerprints
were found on the documents recovered from ... was able to browse 
customer
records undetected as ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID
=1379075>

Update: Archives for Africa and beyond
RSC - London,UK
The RSC has provided developing countries with free access to its 
journal
archives, but its involvement shouldn't stop there, said RSC chief 
executive
<http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/March/08030602.asp>

$10,000 Bill Sent to NY for Safe Keeping
Forbes - USA
The bill - one of 15 large-denomination bills at a Chase Bank branch in
Green Bay - was shipped to the bank's corporate archives in New York for
safe keeping. ...
<http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/03/09/ap2582121.html>

Clark County Recorder: Sources: Activist bought access
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Veagas,NV,USA
... of Licensed Professionals. County records show Miller as the 
licensed
owner of American Document Co. Deane's campaign disclosure ...
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-09-Thu-2006/news/6271968
.html>

Will county history wind up in shredder?
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin - Tooele,UT,USA
... dating back 125 years & started a controversy when it was discovered
that they were in the possession of a local antiques dealer, and not the
state archives. ...
<http://www.tooeletranscript.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=11
233&Itemid=2>

'I made a complete mess of everything'
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... He's still the band's archivist, his collection worth millions. ...
"1963 onwards, really," he answers instantly and po-faced, every inch
the archivist. ...
<http://arts.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/filmandmusic/story/0,,1726872,00.htm
l>

fleshing out college's past
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... College archivist Shannon Wilson's favorite feature is the threshold
on the building's east side, worn down by the footsteps of thousands of
students. ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/14053573.htm>

SWINGING BACK TIME
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... mark their event. Archie Baird is an archivist at Muir-field, where
the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers are based. He said ...
<http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16786211&method=full&sitei
d=66633&headline=swinging-back-time--name_page.html>

Walking in Walt's Apartment
Mickey News (press release) - Clovis,CA,USA
This is what I call "Walt's Window," and this is where Walt's Apartment
is located. We met with Tim O'Day, the Disney archivist and Dave Kooi.
<http://www.mickeynews.com/Columns/DisplayColumn.asp_Q_id_E_651>

'Bank man led £400,000 scam'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... Imtiaz Khan, 28, had access to confidential computer records while
working as a customer service adviser for the Halifax Bank of Scotland.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/09/nfraud09
.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/09/ixhome.html>

Call centre worker in the dock over £400,000 card scam
Finextra - UK
The alleged ringleader of the gang of eight was customer service adviser
Imtiaz Khan, 28, who had access to confidential computer records while
he worked in ...
<http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=15025>

Citigroup Clients Hit by Hundreds of Illegal Debits
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Bank of America Corp. and Washington Mutual Inc. ... had lost 
computer
tapes containing account and payment history data on about 3.9 million
customers.
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-citi9mar09,1,3165239.story?coll=la
-headlines-business>

Clark County recorder on paid leave during investigation
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... in by the citizens of Clark County and she ... The county recorder
receives and records more than ... Las Vegas police confiscated boxes
of documents from Deane's home ...
<http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/mar/08/030810118.h
tml>

Panel backs records exemptions for public hospitals
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA
... committee. Public records advocates have panned the bill as an 
end-around
to the state's Sunshine Laws, but its sponsor, Rep. Joe ...
<http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Politics/Leg/po
lLEG01030906.htm>


East Carolina Bank Dumpster Diving
WNCT - Greenville,NC,USA
... numbers, credit cards numbers, tax ID numbers, dates of birth and 
salary
records.? ... And why aren't these banks shredding documents, like 
they're
supposed to? ...
<http://www.wnct.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WNCT/MGArticle/NCT_BasicA
rticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834609862>

Court approves new files rules
Seattle Times - United States
... commissioners in King County Superior Court have improperly sealed
entire files in hundreds of cases dating to 1990. The story and related
documents can be ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002855602_dige10m.html>


Dented cabinet adds to pro tem saga
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Sources with knowledge of the cabinet's contents said the drawer 
contained
files with administrative documents from the pro tem office, including
some ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3713817.html>

Poughkeepsie schools' computer, files seized
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA
... County District Attorney's Office executed a search warrant to 
confiscate
a computer and paper files from an office and to retrieve shredded 
documents
from the ...
<http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060310/N
EWS02/603100335>

Mountains of old files provide look into Guatemalan repression
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
... "The history of Guatemala is in these files," prosecutor Morales ...
from thousands of dossiers on people who were monitored by the police,
to documents that show ...
<http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=11206>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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