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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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Medical Records & Legal Documents Found in A Park Dumpster
KTAL-TV - Shreveport,LA,USA
White collar crimes detectives found nearly 100 legal documents, 
containing
social security numbers and medical records, dumped in a Shreveport park
dumpster. ...
<http://www.newschannel6.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=10499>

Docs link up to new record style
Boston Herald - United States
... Electronic records can save time and money while improving health 
care
by giving doctors better access to information. But, they are expensive.
<http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=130382
>

Blackwell to settle suit, remove data from Web
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
... to remove thousands of Social Security numbers from business records
posted on his ... Blackwell, a Republican candidate for governor, 
offered
to delete the Social ...
<http://www.columbusdispatch.com/?story=dispatch/2006/03/14/20060314-B4-0
3.html>

Pan boss turns on his IT chief
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Mr Brooks with "changing his story" since telling the committal 
hearing
last July that Selim had ordered him to delete some of Pan's computer
records at 6.30pm ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/pan-boss-turns-on-his-it-chief/2006/
03/14/1142098465309.html>

YOU GOT NAILED
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... Street] firms to upgrade their archiving systems immediately," said
LitigationProofing's Eric Rosenberg, a former Merrill attorney and 
document-retention
expert ...
<http://www.nypost.com/business/65190.htm>

Recent Changes To Execution Of Deeds And Documents
Mondaq News Alerts - London,UK
Certain changes to the execution of deeds and documents came into effect
on 15 September 2005. The objective was to standardise ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_38284>


RIT Unveils Deaf Studies Archive During Heritage Month
RIT News - Rochester,NY,USA
... and deaf culture. Those interested in more information should 
contact
RIT Archivist Becky Simmons at [log in to unmask] The library ...
<http://www.ntid.rit.edu/media/full_text.php?article_id=487>

Cuba Digitalizes Film Archives
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Santiago de Cuba, Mar 14 (Prensa Latina) The digitalization of 
cinematographic
archives advances in Cuba and is expected to be completed in the next
four years ...
<http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD9927A9F-6B94-4C55-974C-38836
32F2CE7%7D)&language=EN>

Proposal to house archives gets boost from subway plan
Toronto Star - Canada
A proposal to house the province's $400-million archives collection at
York University is being given a boost by planned subway development.
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142290255089&call_pageid=968332188492>

The National Archives News March 2006
Managing Information - UK
... life for you to use. MI5 Files just publicly released at The 
National
Archives, Kew, contain some surprises. Ewan McColl the folk ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4746>

Cryzip Trojan Encrypts Files, Demands Ransom
PC Magazine - USA
... to store the victim's documents inside a password-protected zip file
and leaves step-by-step instructions on how to pay the ransom to 
retrieve
the files. ...
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1937507,00.asp>

Order, and more room, in the court
Jacksonville Daily News - Jacksonville,NC,USA
... Leonard said every effort has been made to make way for records 
storage
over the years, but sites have become scattered around and 
decentralized.
<http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Detail
s.cfm&StoryID=39567&Section=News>


Defense Agency to buy 56,000 computers after leaks from private ...
TMCnet - USA
... computers. It also imposed a complete ban on using privately-owned
computers to compile or store work-related confidential documents.
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-defense-agency-buy-56000-computers-after-
leaks-from-/2006/03/14/1454953.htm>

POLICE INQUIRY: Recorder refuses to step aside
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Veagas,NV,USA
... she could with the Clark County district attorney's ... on limiting
Deane's contact with recorder's office employees ... two highly placed
Las Vegas police officials ...
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-14-Tue-2006/news/6306481
.html>

SPELLER COLUMN: Personal treasures can be found in public records
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
... and storage. "There are tons of treasures that people have never 
dreamed
of from Pitt County in the state archives," he said. And ...
<http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2006/03/13/20060313G
DRspeller.html>

Saved from the shredders: Water Resources Archive welcomes new ...
CSU e-comment - Fort Collins,Colorado,USA
... After surveying the materials, Archivist Patty Rettig knew that Carl
Nordin's papers would make an excellent addition to the Archive. ...
<http://comment.colostate.edu/index.asp?page=display_article&article_id=7
0995232>

The Secrets of the Cuban Missile Crisis
St Petersburg Times, Russia - St. Petersburg,Russia
... On the one hand, these institutions are part of a national treasure
trove of archival riches. ... Archival work is a little like tackling
a giant jigsaw puzzle. ...
<http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=17006>

United States: Responding to Security Breaches Under Ohio´s and ...
Mondaq News Alerts - London,UK
... Time Warner, for example, disclosed that a container of computer 
tapes
containing the personal information of 600,000 current and former 
employees
had been ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_38334>

Pan Pharmaceuticals boss in court over record-destroying ...
ABC Online - Australia
The founder of Pan Pharmaceuticals is on trial in a Sydney court, 
accused
of ordering the destruction of records about a recalled product. ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1591226.htm>
DA investigators take files from pro tem's office
Houston Chronicle - United States
... office. The cabinets contained administrative and financial files 
for
the office, but also some records related to council committees. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3722430.html>

Display honors K-State women
Kansas State Collegian - Manhattan,KS,USA
... "We had all these wonderful holdings in the university archives 
donated
by women or about women," Tony Crawford, university archivist, said.
<http://kstatecollegian.com/article.php?a=9443>

Editorial: Don't shred our history
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin - Tooele,UT,USA
... is to do just that, and mostly they follow easy-to-understand 
retention
schedules set ... clear: It is at the Archives' sole discretion whether
a document will be ...
<http://www.tooeletranscript.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=11
316&Itemid=54>

Kavan is to pay fine for shredding documents
Prague Daily Monitor - Prague,Czech Republic
... foreign minister Jan Kavan´s appeal against the National Security
Office (NBU) decision to fine him for illegal shredding of classified
documents upon leaving ...
<http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=6148>

'Security' Makes Me Sick
Channel Insider - New York,NY,USA
... It was no surprise that the analyst's laptop, along with the 
personal
financial data of all those loan customers, was stolen. After ...
<http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article2/0,1895,1937569,00.asp>

Records keeper opens up
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
... Q: What type of public records are under your jurisdiction? ... A:
Fees for access to public records are established by regulation. ...
<http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_3600130>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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