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PRNewswire 03/07/01
Student records easily retrieved and shared with ImageTag's Paper to Digital
Filing System
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-07-2

001/0001442406&EDATE=

CHANDLER, Ariz., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- North Olmsted City Schools, a
5,000-student Kindergarten through 12th grade school district in Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, has solved its problem of paper overload with a unique paper
management system called KwikTag. KwikTag is a patented system that
transforms paper into digital files. Using KwikTag's client/server solution,
existing office equipment and easy-to-use Post-it(R) products, the school's
staff now easily stores, accesses and shares student information, eliminating
the need for storage boxes and filing cabinets.



Freedomforum.org 03/06/01
Supreme Court: Federal official's can't shield tribal documents
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13303

by Tony Mauro
Special to freedomforum.org
The Supreme Court reaffirmed the vitality of the Freedom of Information Act
yesterday, ruling unanimously in favor of public disclosure of correspondence
between Indian tribes and the Interior Department.
The tribes and the government had urged the high court to regard the
correspondence as "intra-agency memorandums" of the type that can be withheld
from public view under Exemption 5 of the FOIA. In this context, the
government said, the tribe was like a government consultant whose
communications could be kept confidential.




Sacramento Bee 03/06/01
High court says tribes must give farmers records: Document dispute over
irrigation plan originated in 1996
http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert04_20010306.html

by Michael Doyle
Bee Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed Sacramento
attorneys and Northern California farmers a victory in a long-running freedom
of information case.
The court's 9-0 ruling grants farmers around Tule Lake, near the Oregon
border, a peek at previously confidential tribal documents. More broadly, the
ruling could boost other people's efforts to obtain tribal information now
held by the federal government.




Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 03/06/01
Frick archives may be split between city and New York
 http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010306frick3.asp

by Patricia Lowry
Under an agreement reached by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office and
the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, portions of the Frick Family Archives could
remain in Pittsburgh.
The agreement, which must be approved by the Orphan's Court Division of
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, calls for Henry Clay Frick's business
papers and other items of local interest to be housed in the University of
Pittsburgh's Archives Service Center in Point Breeze, where Frick's
Pittsburgh home, Clayton, is located.
Materials that relate to the Frick family, including photographs and motion
pictures, will be transferred to the Frick Collection's Frick Art Reference
Library in New York.




The California Aggie 03/05/01
Judge hands UC-Davis decisive victory over police records
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010305/university-121

by S.F. Zook
(U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- A Sacramento Superior Court judged ruled Feb. 26
against The Sacramento Bee's petition to mandate the release of 14 University
of California-Davis Police Department reports.
The police records, filed between August 1996 and January 2000, spanned
incidents that took place at the UC Davis Medical Center. They include
information about 13 possible sexual assaults and one suicide.
The Bee maintains that by denying them the police reports, UCD violated the
California Public Records Act and the California Education Code.




Washington Post 03/07/01
Missing information noted in Jackson's tax records
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32209-2001Mar6.html

by William Claiborne
CHICAGO, March 6 -- More than 100 pages of tax records and auditors' reports
have been released by Jesse L. Jackson as questions mount about the finances
of his organizations. But they make no mention of the woman with whom he
fathered a child during an extramarital affair even though federal tax law
required that she be listed on one form because of the amount of money she
earned.




Arkansas Democrat Gazette 03/07/01
Rogers: Employers learn to sort real, fake ID certificates
http://www.ardemgaz.com/Wed/biz/D1bnwimmigration7.html

by Cristal Cody
ROGERS -- Altered identification cards. Stolen Social Security numbers.
Counterfeit U.S. naturalization certificates.
Arkansas employers are finding it harder and harder to know if a person
applying for a job legitimately matches the work documents.
High-tech and savvy counterfeiters can readily roll out fake identifications
to a growing customer base. One counterfeiter apprehended last year by the
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that he made more than
700,000 work documents in less than a year, the agency reported.




Technology Review 03/2001 (Thanks to Curtis Welch for the tip)
Beyond the Bar Code
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/schmidt.asp

Within a few years, unobtrusive tags on retail products will send radio
signals to their manufacturers, collecting a wealth of information about
consumer habits-and also raising privacy concerns.
It's 2010, and an ordinary day on an assembly line. A bottle of root beer
gets stamped with an innocuous little tag that immediately begins sending
messages into cyberspace. The tag radios the soda company's Web site to
report the bottle's whereabouts, allowing computers to track the bottle as it
moves from the factory, through warehouses and distribution centers, and into
a refrigerator at a corner drugstore. When the bottle is sold, the
manufacturer is alerted and makes a new one to take its place. Finally,
facing reincarnation at a recycling plant, the bottle radios its "last words"
to a robotic separator that lifts it from a pile of plastic and newspaper and
tosses it into a container of broken glass.




Atlanta Journal-Constitution 03/07/01
Atlanta to host exhibition of American treasures
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/wednesday/news_a35a8

e5e53e811b40014.html

by Samantha Sommer
Washington --- A national tour of priceless historical documents will bring
the Emancipation Proclamation to the Southeast for the first time in more
than 50 years.
The National Archives and Record Administration's exhibit, "American
Originals: V," will begin in Washington next week and stop at the Jimmy
Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta during the fall of 2002. Atlanta, one
of seven cities on the tour, is the only scheduled stop in the South.




Yahoo 03/07/01
Tobacco Documents Archive Revealed
http://biz.yahoo.com/law/010306/88353-6.html

by Michael Ravnitzky
The National Law Journal
A little-known archive of potentially damaging tobacco industry papers is a
"treasure without a treasure map," according to one of the few lawyers
familiar with it.
And if attorneys representing the industry have their way, the papers on Big
Tobacco stashed in that treasure trove may stay concealed in a growing
mountain of document boxes.




Akron Beacon Journal 03/07/01
Supreme Court dismisses Hamilton County's appeal in public records case
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/019476.htm

Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed Hamilton
County's appeal of an order to release documents about cost overruns during
construction of the Cincinnati Bengals football stadium.
The dismissal leaves intact a ruling by the 1st Ohio District Court of
Appeals that the documents are public record and must be given to The
Cincinnati Enquirer because they involve a large public expense.




Los Angeles Times 03/07/01
The Warbler between the States
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/calendar/20010307/t000020222.html

by Mark Chalon Smith
Special to The Times
His father, not long before he died, handed Robert Trentham a bundle of
papers that took the classically trained singer on a path through his family
history and one of the country's profoundest eras.
The documents came from his grandmother, Mattie, and chronicled the Trenthams
who lived in Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee during the Civil War. By
poring over the letters, photos and official papers, Trentham discovered that
more than 30 of his distant relatives had fought, some as Union soldiers,
others as Confederates.



News & Observer 03/07/01
Gov. Bush, lawmakers want to keep autopsy photos private
http://www.newsobserver.com/ncwire/sports/Story/403102p-402402c.html

Brent Kallestad
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A bill sought by NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt's
widow that would exempt autopsy photographs and videos from Florida's public
records law was filed Wednesday with Gov. Jeb Bush's support.
"The possibility of graphic and sensitive photos being leaked and exploited
is a major public policy concern," said Republican Senate Majority Leader Jim
King of Jacksonville, who filed the bill. He was flanked at an afternoon news
conference by co-sponsor Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, Bush and two House members
who have filed a similar measure.






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

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