RAIN 060419 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Boxes of personal records found in Grover Beach alley San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA Three storage boxes full of private medical records were found in an alley in Grover Beach. Police found the boxes April 3 behind ... <http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/14370960.htm> Archivists seek better disaster protection for records Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA ... They also found out that securing vital documents - everything from drivers license records to property deeds - was not a priority for emergency management ... <http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/14379962.htm> Social security numbers posted to city-run website WBBH - Ft. Myers,FL,USA ... have a clerk of courts website listing public records including mortgages, deeds, liens and ... Most documents with social security numbers were posted before 2002 ... <http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/article.asp?articleid=6721&z=3> Worker Who Stole Trade Secrets Sentenced To Prison Lex 18 - Lexington,KY,USA Harrodsburg, KY A man who was fired from a New York-based business for stealing company trade secrets and selling them to a rival in Taiwan has been sentenced ... <http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=4789441&nav=menu203_1_12> Braking the News, Apple Style Wired News - USA ... Apple also subpoenaed AppleInsider, and is separately suing Think Secret in a related case for allegedly disclosing trade secrets. ... <http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70687-0.html?tw=wn_index_5> Attorney general: Keep files public Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA "The law does not permit and this office cannot sanction efforts by public officials and employees to knowingly circumvent the Open Records Act," Baker wrote ... <http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/0419metnascar.html> Prying open Nazi files Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada ... Approval to open the files would require agreement by all 11 countries. Keeping the records closed "is absolutely scandalous," said Karel Fracapane, a Polish ... <http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1145398213274&call_pageid=968332188492> Official concerned about Internet records Tampa Bay Newspapers - Seminole,FL,USA ... sense there is no greater risk of privacy violation simply because the files may be ... To find the OR book and page number citizens can search official records. ... <http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_articles/041906_fpg-05.txt> AG says water associations open thier records KRQE - Albuquerque,NM,USA ALBUQUERQUE -- Domestic water associations in New Mexico must obey the state's open meetings and open records laws. That's according ... <http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BNews%5D=ID&ID%5BNews%5D=14 804> Senate to OK bill halting records exemption Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA ... Douglas soon will face a decision whether to approve or veto a controversial bill halting his administration's ability to get around Vermont's open records law ... <http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060419/NEWS/60 4190377/1004/EDUCATION05> EMC overhauls backup offerings Techworld.com - London,UK ... which files have been exported to physical tape. NetApp already offers this capability with its Alacritus-based virtual tape product. The shredding software ... <http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=5821&pagtype=all> 10 steps to secure data ZDNet UK - UK ... Company documents may contain trade secrets, personal information ... or clients, or the organisation's financial records. ... permissions on the data files and folders ... <http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020415,39264014,00.htm> Holocaust files will reveal Nazis' full horror Scotsman - United Kingdom ... He said: "These records have been awaited for years by Holocaust survivors and ... release while survivors are still alive will enable these documents to be ... <http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=594222006> Lost Treasures Returned To Oregon Mazamas After Four Decades NewsAshland.com - Ashland,OR,USA ... and Jeff Thomas located the missing papers and secured ... The documents are considered too valuable to be ... Classified ads are free and are simultaneously published ... <http://www.newsashland.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=330003&cp=4296> Government Web Site Will Remove Social Security Numbers WREG - Memphis,TN,USA ... says Leatherwood. Until now, Tennessee law prohibited Leatherwood and other county registers from altering public documents. But ... <http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=4790936> The Olympian, Tue, 18 Apr 2006 8:16 AM PDT Navajo council may open records to battle DWI <http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060418/NEWS06/60 418041> WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation council delegates are moving to consider a bill that would allow the tribe’s public safety officials to share driving records of its residents with states. Privacy rule compliance said to be diminishing Three years after federal rules governing privacy of patients' medical records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). http://govhealthit.com/article94120-04-19-06-Web GAO hits agency info-sharing policy http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40446-1.html Washington Post, Wed, 19 Apr 2006 0:25 AM PDT Ken Burns Gives Voice to Filmmakers' Concerns http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041 801882.html?nav=rss_print/style In the crowded conference room of a Washington think tank yesterday, filmmaker Ken Burns passionately described his affection for the Smithsonian Institution and the vast array of historical materials in its archives. Then he just as sternly rebuked the Smithsonian for developing new rules for... Prague Daily Monitor, Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:10 PM PDT Czech restorers to help renew New Orleans cemetery http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=w7071i20060419;story=Czech-restorers -to-help-renew-New-Orleans-cemetery Prague, April 18 (CTK) - The first three Czech restorers from the Gema Art Group company are leaving for New Orleans where they will participate in the salvation and restoration of gravestones at the local cemetery, one of the most famous historic cemeteries in the United States. New York Times, Wed, 19 Apr 2006 1:42 AM PDT After Resisting for Decades, Germany Agrees to Open Archive of Holocaust Documents http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/world/europe/19nazi.html?ex=1145592000& en=106fe7d947fb8cb9&ei=5087%0A The Bad Arolsen archive is one of the largest in the world, with up to 50 million documents, some seized by the Allies as they liberated concentration camps. The Times-Reporter, Wed, 19 Apr 2006 8:36 PM PDT Nazis kept impeccable track of work; Germans to finally release records http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=53076&r=9 WASHINGTON – Even while using mass murder to try to eradicate European Jewry and others they considered inferior, the Nazis kept scrupulous records of their work. Now, Germany is ending years of trying to keep those documents inaccessible to historians and family members of Holocaust victims. Daily Telegraph, Wed, 19 Apr 2006 5:59 PM PDT Nazi death camp records reveal fate of millions http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/20/wits20.xm l At least 50 million Nazi and post-war documents recording the movements - and deaths - of millions of people around Europe are to be made public for the first time. Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. 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