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...
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...
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...
She struggled to reclaim her Indigenous name
For as long as she can remember, Danita Bilozaze knew that the name on her birth certificate, "Danita Loth," didn't reflect her Indigenous identity. From the stories her mother recounted to her, she...
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...
Data Protection Commission seeks answers on destruction of mother and baby homes recordings
The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has written to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission over the destruction of recordings of witness testimony. A total of 550 people provided personal accounts...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Military hospitals destroyed thousands of medical records, says veteran (US)
Nanaimo resident Kenneth Young says he was shocked to learn that not only were his medical records from a now-closed military hospital destroyed four years ago, but so were 27,381 boxes of veterans'...
Capps introduces bill to help war veterans without records
Last Wednesday, Capps — who represents more than 50,000 veterans in her 24th District — introduced a bill called the Veterans’ Record Reconstruction Act that would streamline the process by which...
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...
Abusers may be at large, says church (AUS)
Some child sex abusers might still be among Uniting Church clergy because of poor record keeping and failure to investigate cases, the church conceded on Monday. The Victorian inquiry...
Records of civil service pension payments ‘unacceptable’ admit officials
Inadequate records of civil service pension payments are "unacceptable", the government has said after a spending watchdog raised concerns. The National Audit Office qualified the accounts of the...
AM calls for urgent talks on child protection in Port Talbot (WALES)
ABERAVON AM David Rees has called for an urgent meeting with Neath Port Talbot Council leader Ali Thomas and chief executive Steve Phillips following the publication of a highly critical report on...
How Did Scores of Military Units Lose Combat Records in the War on Terror?
Extracts from questions answered by Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Peter Sleeth on the revelation that field reports have been lost or are missing for many Army units deployed in Iraq and...
Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
A strange thing happened when Christopher DeLara filed for disability benefits after his tour in Iraq: The U.S. Army said it had no records showing he had ever been overseas. PubNotes: Over the last...
The Shaw Report – 5 years on
An independent review of the systems in place to protect children and keep them safe in residential care between 1950-1995. This report is the direct outcome of a debate in the Scottish Parliament...
B of A sends woman to collections after she already paid off her credit card (US)
Bank of America’s foreclosure processes have been a wreck during the mortgage crisis — the bank has foreclosed on homes that no longer exist, used fraudulent procedures to speed through documents,...
Report blasts Victorian recordkeeping quagmire
The inability of former wards of the state of Victoria to access their historical records has resulted in an official report to parliament from the state Ombudsman criticising the record-keeping...
Voter rolls are rife with inaccuracies, report finds
WASHINGTON — The nation’s voter registration rolls are in disarray, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States. The problems have the potential to affect the outcomes of...
Schools lose records; English learners pay (US)
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...
Royal family’s confidential medical records found on roadside
Confidential medical records relating to the Queen and other senior members of the Royal family were discovered dumped by the side of the road. Whoever was supposed to destroy the information...
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