RAIN 060426
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Police documents found blowing in the Winnipeg wind
CBC News - Canada
Winnipeg police are investigating how confidential documents were found
blowing in the wind outside the city's main police station. ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/26/blowing-wind060426.ht
ml>

Shred of doubt
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... Paniagua cited the fact that employees must work at the center one
year before they are allowed to sort confidential documents and if they
are caught even ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0426biz-shred0426.html>

Computer records on 197,000 people breached at UT
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Computerized records on nearly 200,000 people with ties to the 
University
of Texas' McCombs School of Business have been accessed without 
authorization
by ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/24utcomputer
s.html>

Archivists urge disaster planning
Disaster News Network - USA
... next crisis strikes. "The state archives may have not have had 
relationships
with emergency management folks in a state. Those are ...
<http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articleid=3139>

Archives: 1 in 3 Records Wrongly Resealed
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Hill, and the agreement was even disowned by a former head of the 
archives.
John Carlin, a former Kansas governor who served as chief archivist from
1995 to ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3822157.html>

EU data retention law could harm free press
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new data retention law risks helping 
governments
snoop on reporters' contacts in the name of combating terror, leading
<http://euobserver.com/9/21443>


WorkCover denies files lost in IT failure
ABC Online - Australia
The chief executive officer of WorkCover, Jon Blackwell, says archival
material was lost in the information technology failure. ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1623934.htm>

United Nations Probes Sale of Irreplaceable Stamp Archive
FOX News - USA
... Official consent forms required under Secretariat rules for the 
disposal
of archival material have not been found in archival records, according
 to sources ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193181,00.html>

'We tried' to secure patient records: Breig
Carmi Times - IL, United States
... Ayers, identified as members of Cornerstones's board of directors,
and seeks to compel the defendants to preserve the confidential patient
medical records. ...
<http://www.carmitimes.com/articles/2006/04/26/news/news2.txt>

Putting paper in its place
Marshall Independent - Marshall,MN,USA
... government to scan paper documents into electronic files. ... 
developmentally
disabled works to scan documents in August 2005, and the 2004-2005 
records
have been ...
<http://www.marshallindependent.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=2479>

LIRR loses records
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Iron Mountain, Inc., a Boston company employed by the railroad to 
warehouse
and secure information at an undisclosed storage site in the 
metropolitan
area ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lilirr0427,0,6367534.sto
ry?coll=ny-top-headlines>

Helping Others: Troves of history to highlight fundraiser
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... In 1964, the collection was closed to the public and state funding
for archival work ceased. In the last two years, the collection ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/story/14248249p-15065604c.html>


UW American Heritage Center Director to Head Archive Association
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA
... 1989-March 2000 Greene was curator of manuscripts acquisitions for
the Minnesota Historical Society, and from 1985-89 was college archivist
for Carleton College ...
<http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=8000>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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