Monthly Archives: April 2011

Defence failing to control explosive stock (Australia)

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Synercon

Defence is failing to maintain proper records of its bullets and bombs, the national audit office says. …Now the audit office is calling for a large revamp of the way Defence keeps records. Sydney Morning Herald April 19 2011

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PG&E faces new probe (US)

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Synercon

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. faces the start on Monday of another state probe into its record-keeping, one which could be far more serious as regulators examine whether the utility’s record-keeping practices contributed to the deadly pipeline blast in San … Continue reading →

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Council planning records destroyed (UK)

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Synercon

Warrington Borough Council wrongly destroyed records that formed part of the statutory planning register, so that it had no records of plans and applications approved before 1996. The Ombudsman said she had grave concern that this represented a significant and … Continue reading →

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VA contracting officers may face penalty for poor recordkeeping (US)

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Synercon

A senior Veterans Affairs Department official plans to propose a penalty for contracting officers if they don’t file contracting information into VA’s departmentwide database, the official said April 13. Under a new proposal, contracting officers could be docked on their … Continue reading →

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Schools lose records; English learners pay (US)

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Synercon

Poor recordkeeping keeps California schools from getting all of the funding that they have coming, a failing that especially hurts English learners, according to research from the University of California, Davis, School of Education.

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Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety (US)

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Conni

This article in California Watch delivers background to an emerging story set to cause a huge public outcry. Major feature: sloppy incomplete recordkeeping. State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children … Continue reading →

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Overwhelmed by Data Breaches

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Synercon

With Lest We Forget we look for incidents where records management has significantly to operational or system failure. And while most data protection and privacy breaches meet our selection criteria, the number of breaches is now so great that to record them … Continue reading →

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Politicians, elections and missing records (US)

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Synercon

How Huckabee destroyed hard drives in data purge just before his 2008 presidential bid. In an controversy re-ignited today by Mother Jones magazine, it has been revealed that the computer hard drives containing records from Huckabee’s tenure as Arkansas governor … Continue reading →

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Data breach is the Exxon Valdez of privacy

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Synercon

Last week’s Epsilon data breach is the Exxon Valdez of privacy. It is a wake-up call that it is time to reform our privacy infrastructure from the ground up, much as the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 should have … Continue reading →

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