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work.

New York Daily News 5/23/00
Feds' files reveal dirt war
Secret papers document FBI's campaign against PR dissidents
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-05-23/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-67567
.asp

by Juan Gonzalez
For more than 40 years, the FBI pursued a secret campaign of surveillance,
disruption and repression against Puerto Rico's independence movement - but
only now is the full story coming out.
The revelations began in March, when FBI Director Louis Freeh stunned a
congressional budget hearing by conceding that his agency had violated the
civil rights of many Puerto Ricans over the years and had engaged in
"egregious illegal action, maybe criminal action."


St. Louis Post 5/23/00
Barnes: State could take Games records
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/Sports/4DF6D221D951DE33862568E9
0000560A?OpenDocument

by Colin Campbell
Cox News Service
ATLANTA -- Gov. Roy Barnes said Tuesday that the state's University System
could act as a repository for records of Atlanta's Olympic Games scheduled
for destruction this summer.

``My overall view is this,'' Barnes said during an interview in his office
at the Capitol. ``The Olympics were a big thing for this state;'' certain
Olympic records are historically important; ``and some historical
institution should take custody of everything. ...



Los Angeles Times 5/23/00
Senator asks Quackenbush to release quake data
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000523/t000048697.html

by David Colker
When key hearings probing the actions of Insurance Commissioner Chuck
Quackenbush open today in the state Senate, the subject will be confidential
documents detailing a pattern of violations by insurance companies after the
Northridge earthquake.
Senate Insurance Committee Chairwoman Jackie Speier (D-Daly City) wants the
documents--compiled by the Insurance Department's own investigators--made
public. Quackenbush has been just as adamant that the reports should remain
confidential.



Although I posted the Detroit Free Press version on Monday. It was a
truncated AP edition. This is the complete story from the Detroit News. More
information.
Detroit News 5/21/00
Oakland plans to go paperless
County wants all records on computer, but the state balks
http://detnews.com/2000/metro/0005/21/c01-60127.htm

by Louise Knott Ahern
Pontiac -- Oakland County wants to be a technological testing ground for
storing vital records on computer, but Michigan bureaucrats have stalled the
effort.
State archive officials are resisting Oakland's lobbying appeals to let the
county store all records digitally.
And by doing so, Oakland Clerk William Caddell says the state is blocking a
chance for Oakland to set the stage nationwide for innovative programs to
streamline clerk duties and cut costs in the long run.
"We're ready to go," Register of Deeds supervisor Larry Mitchell said. "Now
we're just waiting for the legislation."



PRNewswire 5/17/00
Prominent Japanese inventor's documents and devices donated to the National
Museum of American History
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000517/tx-phonetel-japanese

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- PhoneTel Communications Inc. today
announced its donation of significant artifacts related to the history of
the telecommunications industry to the Smithsonian Institution.
The Fort Worth, Texas, firm will donate early telephone answering devices
and supporting documents belonging to the late Japanese inventor Dr. Kazuo
Hashimoto to the Smithsonian in a Deed of Gift-signing ceremony in
Washington on May 18, 2000.



New York Times 5/21/00
Saving your financial life from destruction
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/financial/personal/052100personal-finance.h
tml

by Julie Flaherty
Just before a wildfire burned their house -- and more than 200 other Los
Alamos, N.M., homes -- to the ground last week, Dick and Judy Opsahl were
told they had a last chance to rescue what they could. Opsahl said they
first grabbed "a few treasures" and a bit of clothing.
"The next part," he added, "was to be sure we got the hard drives."


Colorado Daily 5/23/00
U. Colorado students struggle with open records law
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000523/university-17

by Amanda Hill
(U-WIRE) BOULDER, Colo. -- Two University of Colorado - Boulder students
have recently run into problems while requesting records from the university
under the Colorado Open Records Act. One calls it stonewalling, the other
says it's a double standard.
"Once again, the university is attempting to stonewall our requests for
public records," said Shannon Meadors, the founder of Gravy.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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