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Upside New England 12/28/00
Privacy hits the fan in N.H.
http://www.upside.com/Opinion/3a4a67261.html

by Geoffrey James
Merrimack, N.H. -- The citizens of this sleepy bedroom community hit the
proverbial ceiling when they learned that their property assessment data --
including homeowners' names, color photographs of their houses and diagrams
showing exterior dimensions -- had been made available on the town's website,
www.ci.merrimack.nh.us.
In a town meeting that resembled the peasants-storming-the-castle scene from
a Frankenstein movie, 650 residents demanded to be removed from the site,
complaining that the information would prove to be a godsend for burglars.
Despite the fact that the information on the site was public record, the
powers-that-be in Merrimack concluded that discretion was the better part of
valor and pulled the data from the site.


Los Angeles Times 12/28/00
A cause of his own
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20001228/t000123590.html

by Bettina Boxall
James Lissner is a soft-spoken retired business owner who likes to sail,
snowboard and fight for your right to copies of police reports.
In recent years he has conducted his own crusade to get police departments up
and down the state to reduce fees for copies of reports on traffic accidents,
burglaries and the like.
He slowly is getting results, enough so that he was given an award this year
by the California First Amendment Coalition, of which he is a member.



Pioneer Planet 12/28/00
Polk County clerk victorious in legal dispute
Appeals court say she can decide how records are copied
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/2/news/docs/039327.htm

by Robert Imrie
Associated Press
Wausau, Wis.
The Polk County clerk won a victory Wednesday in a legal dispute that
clarified she had clear power to determine how copies of public records could
be made.
The 3rd District Court of Appeals said Clerk Sharon Schiebel properly refused
to allow a political consulting company in July 1999 to make copies of
election records on a portable copying machine it brought to her office.


Cal Law 12/29/00
E-Court@HOme
First camee home office, now comes home courtroom
http://www.callaw.com/stories/edt1229a.shtml

by Jahna Berry
The Recorder
Alameda attorney Donald Kirby daydreams about filing court papers from the
porch of his Sierra County house near the banks of the Yuba River.
By the end of 2001, court officials say, his fantasy may come true. Alameda
County Superior Court, like a growing number of courts around the state, is
preparing to launch a pilot project that will allow attorneys to file court
documents via the World Wide Web.
"The faster it comes, the better the court will become," said Kirby, a
partner at Kirby & Schultz. "Because the court is a paper jam."



Bergen Record 12/27/00
Financial organizing for the inevitable
http://www.bergen.com/biz/heirskl200012273.htm

by Kathleen Lynn
When Albert F. Chestone's first wife, Marcie, died of cancer in 1980, he
struggled with his family's grief, and in the middle of his loss, faced the
additional difficulty of sorting out his wife's financial records.
"I found myself almost helpless, as far as where anything was, any kind of
records," said Chestone, a retired FBI agent who has since remarried. "I had
to go through a lot of inconvenience convincing the bank who I was in order
to close her account. I decided I was going to put down in writing what might
benefit other people."



E&P Online 12/28/00
Music companies target journalists for leaks
Digital watermarks track illegal files
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/122800n4.htm

by Tamara Conniff
The Hollywood Reporter
First, the major label groups attempted to thwart online music piracy by
going after such file-swapping companies as Napster and Scour. Now, they've
turned their attention to what they believe is one source for leaking their
products - journalists.
Universal Music Group's Universal Records and Warner Music Group's Reprise
Records are experimenting with digital watermarking technology to track
pre-release albums sent months before their commercial street dates to
thousands of music journalists and radio stations for review purposes.



New York Times 12/29/00
The Fountainhead and Father of the Woolworth Building
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/arts/29CASS.html

by Grace Glueck
Cass Gilbert made skyscraper history when he designed the 1913 Woolworth
Building in Lower Manhattan. The world's tallest high-rise until it was aced
out by the Chrysler Building in 1930, the 55-story neo-Gothic "cathedral of
commerce" became a model for the towers that jazzed up New York's skyline
after World War I and became a global symbol of the city's dazzling presence.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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