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Category Archives: Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction
Where Are the Missing War Records? (US)
The top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs are demanding more information from defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about lost Army field records from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the subject of a ProPublica investigation last … Continue reading
Posted in Holes in history, Inadequate Systems, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records, Operational Failures, Systemic failure
Tagged Defence, Defense, Veterans Affairs
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Missing records from predecessor mean $300K in federal reimbursement on hold (US)
Alleged missing or disorganized records at the Athens County Engineer’s Office have led to a sheriff’s investigation into possible destruction of records and questions about how much the department will be reimbursed for nearly $350,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency … Continue reading
Posted in Financial loss, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records
Tagged Emergency Services
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Finra Fines ING Groep Units $1.2 Million on Alleged Record-Keeping Violations
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined five affiliates of ING Groep NV (ING, INGA.AE) $1.2 million amid findings that the units of the Netherlands-based banking giant failed to retain or review millions of emails for various periods between 2004 and … Continue reading
Posted in Inadequate Systems, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Uncategorized
Tagged Banking & Finance, FINRA, ING
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Inquiry call over missing NHS records
More than 100 health records – almost half of them in NHS Grampian – went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included personal details of children and sensitive health information, according to details in a Freedom of Information … Continue reading
Spain’s four-decade baby-snatching nightmare
Nobody knows exactly how many Spanish women were victims of the baby-snatching industry. Because it seemed to operate with the willful ignorance — at the very least — of the state, and with the collusion of the Catholic Church, the … Continue reading
PM’s mail room may have shredded historical documents (CAN)
OTTAWA – The prime minister’s mail room has lost some historical documents on sports, music and politics — and the material appears to have been accidentally shredded. The package of six documents arrived in the busy mail facility last May … Continue reading
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Tagged Prime Minister
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Police cop a blast for illegally destroying surveillance tape (AUS)
NSW POLICE broke the law when they destroyed CCTV footage crucial to a workplace safety investigation into an officer’s exposure to an unknown substance in a drug safe. NSW State Records received complaints in October and November 2010 about the … Continue reading
Did PCSO improperly destroy public records?
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is accused of deleting thousands of emails and other electronic information, prompting an outside review of possible destruction of public records, according to documents obtained by the ABC15 Investigators. Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall’s office … Continue reading
MoD tells Gulf War veteran his army medical records have been lost (UK)
A GULF War veteran seeking a war pension after suffering from a catalogue of illnesses since serving in the first conflict in Iraq has told how his army medical records have mysteriously gone missing. Read more: The Sunday Mercury, March … Continue reading
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Tagged Defence, Defense, Veterans Affairs
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Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again
The link between recordkeeping and the loss of knowledge – a historical perpective. Read more: io9.com, February 2, 2012
P Says Halliburton Destroyed Evidence in Gulf Spill Case (US)
BP Plc accused a unit of Halliburton Co. of intentionally destroying evidence that could be used to prove the oilfield services firm shares blame for the blowout that caused the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Halliburton Energy Services (HAL) … Continue reading
Mystery surrounds loss of records, art in World Trade Center towers (US)
Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center. Besides ending … Continue reading
Ex-PG&E manager says key records possibly trashed (US)
A former Pacific Gas and Electric Co. record-keeping manager told federal investigators that a top PG&E official recently acknowledged to him that the utility had likely tossed some of its missing pipeline records, according to a transcript of his interview … Continue reading
Council planning records destroyed (UK)
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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Tagged Housing & Land, Local Government
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Politicians, elections and missing records (US)
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
Almost 30 years of Jacksonville City Council files destroyed (US)
Legislative files recording nearly 30 years of Jacksonville City Council decisions were destroyed as surplus paperwork and some are lost forever, city officials have concluded. Although some file contents were preserved on microfilm, gaps in that archiving leave no way … Continue reading
Fair slice of the salami (AUS)
How do Australian courts deal with the duty of corporate record-keeping in practice? David McGrath finds that “it depends”, as two recent cases showed very different outcomes. The first of those matters was the successful prosecution by the NSW Food … Continue reading
Judges to weigh mortgage document destruction (US)
Federal bankruptcy judges in Delaware are due to hold separate hearings Monday on requests by two defunct subprime mortgage lenders to destroy thousands of boxes or(f) original loan documents. The requests, by trustees liquidating Mortgage Lenders Network USA and American … Continue reading
CBC destroyed notes on openness (CAN)
OTTAWA – CBC’s commitment to openness and transparency met with a shredding machine or recycling bin in late November. CBC executives were sending memos back and forth on how to best answer claims that they were not being fully open … Continue reading
Games files ‘destroyed’ (India)
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials had destroyed some “incriminating” documents before the CBI last month started its investigation into alleged corruption, sources in the agency said. “A probe revealed that some files, containing information on budgetary allocation and the names … Continue reading
