While gun ownership can be controversial, the role of recordkeeping in gun control is not. Below are examples of where flawed recordkeeping put institutions and individuals at risk. Shoddy...
Gun control undermined by flawed recordkeeping
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The injustice of shoddy recordkeeping
Prosecuting or defending a case is a vital democratic right, but one that's easily undermined by poor recordkeeping. Mother and Baby Home Commission destroys witness testimony Tusla's...
Families kept apart by poor recordkeeping
It's not just blood that keeps families together – recordkeeping has a role to play too. Below is a collection of recordkeeping failures that have kept families separated and left people...
Recordkeeping failures putting children at risk
Failure to meet recordkeeping obligations isn't just a business risk – it can impact human rights, especially for society's most vulnerable cohorts. The following is a collection of documented...
Serious breach of protocols in Home Affairs
A Department of Home Affairs (DHA) contractor suspected of illegally sending classified documents to an unsecured location was allowed to continue working in the public service. The man is alleged...
Setting the record straight on Indigenous justice
Gaps in the historical record have kept Indigenous people disconnected from their families, cultures, homes, and identities. The records that do remain have a pivotal role to play in the fight for...
More than 90,000 SA public servants involved in payroll data breach
South Australia's Treasurer says 13,088 current and former public servants more than previously thought had their personal information stolen in a 2021 cyber attack. Treasurer Stephen Mullighan told...
Ireland fines Meta for bad record-keeping
In 2018, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) was alarmed when Facebook notified the commission, between June and December, of 12 separate data breaches that affected up to 30 million...
Judge to oversee the financial recovery of ‘failed’ Makana Municipality
The Eastern Cape government of Premier Oscar Mabuyane will have to report to a judge every three months on progress in implementing a financial recovery plan for the Makana Municipality. This is...
McKesson to pay $1m to resolve recordkeeping violations
McKesson Corporation (MCK) has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to resolve alleged recordkeeping violations, the Department of Justice announced on Monday. The agreement between DoJ...
JP Morgan admits to widespread recordkeeping failures
The Securities and Exchange Commission (today) announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMS), a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for widespread and longstanding...
Eskom bosses in hot water over poor recordkeeping
Cape Town - Eskom's leaders found themselves in hot water yesterday when it emerged that they had failed to provide adequate documents in the auditing of their finances for the 2020-21 financial...
Missing: Curtin’s wartime correspondence with Churchill
He grew up in a tiny South Australian town famous for its rodeo, but historian Robin Prior has made his career roping in the myths proliferating around Australia’s war efforts. His huge new...
Future public inquiries at risk by ‘poor’ information management practices
Future public inquiries such as the recent Alex Salmond affair at Holyrood could be jeopardised by poor information management practices, a government internal review has found. The way that the...
AFP cops a blast for poor records managment
"A report into the use of statutory powers by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has given these a pass mark but uncovered serious deficiencies in the AFP’s record-keeping practices and processes....
Mining death inquest finds deficient recordkeeping led to suffocation
A coronial inquest into the death of a central Queensland miner who suffocated on lethal gas has found operator Anglo American's record keeping was "grossly deficient" and his death could have been...
Cuomo denies alleged cover-up in crisis surrounding nursing home deaths
After insisting his administration had done nothing wrong last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo, on Monday, did not directly apologize for a lack of transparency surrounding the record-keeping of COVID...
California grapples with uneven COVID-19 vaccination rollout
(CN) — California’s foray into mass vaccination against Covid-19 has been marred by poor data management that has given an inaccurate snapshot on how many people have received their inoculation...
NSW Premier’s Office broke state recordkeeping laws in ‘reckless’ destruction of documents
The NSW premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws by shredding documents related to a pork-barrelling scheme, a watchdog has found. ... An adviser to the premier in October told a...
Gaps in records of Trump’s presidency
There’s growing concern among historians and political analysts that missing documents will leave a hole in the record of President Donald Trump’s term, one of America’s most tumultuous...
Freedom of Information coverup clerk stung for £2k after deleting council audio recording
ICO notches up first successful FoI prosecution A town clerk in the English county of Shropshire has been the subject of the first ever successful Freedom of Information prosecution after lying to a...
Homeowners near Wellington complain council lost their paperwork
Homeowners near Wellington are reporting their local council losing the paperwork for their houses. Sue Mortimer can't sell her sunny home on a bush-clad hillside with a glimpse of Plimmerton Beach...
PG&E falsified gas pipeline safety records, regulators say
Utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric is being accused of falsifying gas pipeline safety records by California regulators in the aftermath of a pipeline explosion that killed eight people in 2010....
Former chief of staff gets four months in jail for wiping hard drives
David Livingston was convicted of unauthorised use of a computer system for arranging a password that enabled a private contractor to clear hard drives in the Premier’s office before Kathleen Wynne...
Poor recordkeeping stymies probe into Interior actions
The Department of the Interior’s internal watchdog office has concluded that it cannot determine whether an unusual and controversial reassignment of dozens of senior employees ran afoul of federal...
Waiting for TRIM and training, concerns as child protection files get lost in transit
It's often seen as one of the government's thankless achievements, despite helping build civilisations. Records management, the tool helping drive so many services for the community, has taken...
Man told to take citizenship test despite living entire life in UK
A man born in London to German parents has been told he cannot get a British passport unless he takes a UK citizenship test because he cannot prove his mother was legally in the country when she...
Pennsylvania fracking water contamination much higher than reported
The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no...
Disclosure: TSA cannot verify employees’ criminal histories
Government oversight officials informed Congress on Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration continues to operate in disarray, failing to record basic security details for thousands...
Recordkeeping woes revealed in CBA compo claims
The Commonwealth Bank does not currently have advice files for more than one in 10 of the cases registered for its compensation scheme for victims of dodgy financial advice. A CBA update on Tuesday...
PG&E can’t find original records for South Bay gas lines
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has lost 12 years of gas-line repair records for part of the Bay Area — the largest such gap to emerge since the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion was blamed on...
Records risk for NZ public sector
New Zealand government agencies have been given a rap on the knuckles for poor record-keeping practices in the 2014-205 annual report from Archives New Zealand, which found that that important...
Sheriff’s Office gets training, writing policies, hiring to improve public records retention
raining of roughly 200 supervisors at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in the handling of public records as well as other steps to improve a broken and possibly illegal system of not keeping emails...
PG&E management allegedly ordered papers destroyed after blast (US)
A former Pacific Gas and Electric Co. official hired after the San Bruno gas-pipeline explosion to clean up the company’s records said management ordered her to destroy documents and that she found...
Trade Union Royal Commission: CFMEU attempted to cover up document destruction, inquiry hears (AUS)
The head of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in Queensland ordered the covering up of the destruction of tonnes of documents demanded by the royal commission into trade...
Investigators: Phila. VA needs change, accountability
After a nine-month probe, the VA's Office of Inspector General made 35 recommendations to address shoddy record-keeping, bungled claims, inadequate security, and poor working conditions at the...
Audit Office criticises Health Department’s handling of $15b pharmacy deal
The federal health department has been criticised by the Australian National Audit Office for its administration of a $15 billion agreement with pharmacists. The audit office identified several...
What’s driving chaotic dismantling of Canada’s science libraries?
Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual...
Did poor recordkeeping allow a murderer to walk free?
Poor recordkeeping by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) relating to the On the Runs (OTRs) scheme for fugitive IRA members may have allowed a murderer to walk free. The NIO ran a scheme formulated...
Met police still failing on child protection policies, report finds
The police are failing to record more than 800,000 offences, including a quarter of all sexual crimes, reported to them by the public each year, according to a damning official inquiry. Her...
Thousands lose pensions in firms’ ‘Fawlty Towers’ bungles (UK)
Firms have lost "whole box loads of paperwork" recording pension contributions and entitlements, meaning thousands could be deprived of their retirement income. Hundreds of thousands of people may...
More than 10,500 water meters purchased by the city are “unaccounted for
Atlanta’s auditor released a damning investigation of the Department of Watershed Management on Tuesday, reporting that security problems are so bad that it’s impossible to know how much equipment...
Walsh calls Boston Redevelopment Authority a mess (US)
Shoddy record-keeping and weak management inside the Boston Redevelopment Authority have cost Boston’s powerful development agency millions of dollars in unpaid fees and lease payments, an outside...
More scandals with lost emails are ahead if Congress doesn’t enforce the record-keeping laws on the books (US)
Melanie Sloan and Anne Weismann -- executive director and chief counsel, respectively, of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington -- made two important points in yesterday's edition of...
State mine fire report uncovers a litany of shocking Defence Force failures (AUS)
AN investigation into a live-firing drill that sparked one of the biggest-ever bushfires in NSW has uncovered a litany of shocking Defence Force failures, including poor record keeping of anti-tank...
Government records in a mess in Botswana
The Directorate of Public service management (DPSM) has long been besieged by reports and complaints of maladministration and general malpractice in the running of the civil service. Recent Public...
Falsified recordkeeping claims major scalp, but what was the cost to veterans needing medical attention? (USA)
Barack Obama has announced the resignation of his veterans chief amid a mushrooming scandal over appointment delays, falsified-record keeping and other problems plaguing the strained healthcare...
Quincy city clerk responds to records scandal with training sessions, ‘shred days’ (USA)
Following two recent scandals involving public records, the Quincy city clerk says Quincy’s department heads will be required to undergo records-management training. In March, the city’s public...
Missing high school records stop former students from succeeding (USA)
When Ortiz went to pick up a copy of his high school transcript, he couldn’t believe what he was told. “There was no record of transcripts,” explained Ortiz. “No records of anything. No records of...
NHS Trust fined £200,000 over death of a diabetic patient who was not given insulin due to poor recordkeeping (UK)
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust has been fined £200,000 for the 'avoidable' death of a 66-year-old diabetic who was not given insulin due to poor record-keeping. ... She was assessed on...
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