PG&E's poor record keeping practices lead to the San Bruno gas-line explosion that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes in California, United States. Below is a collection of news article...
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Gun control undermined by flawed recordkeeping
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...
Two years since veterans home Covid disaster, Murphy’s promise of ‘full accounting’ has gone nowhere
A barrage of questions fills Regina Discenza's head every time she thinks about what her parents, Charles and Madeline Costantino, suffered through two years ago as COVID-19 swept through the 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Carmel home explosion blamed on faulty pipeline records (USA)
Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s faulty pipeline records, which the utility promised to fix after the deadly San Bruno disaster more than three years ago, are being blamed in a natural-gas explosion...
Government audit finds astoundingly bad recordkeeping by Social Security (US)
Much of the Social Security Administration’s information on who’s dead and who isn’t is “inaccurate, incomplete or untimely” and could “lead to improper payments,” according to a government audit....
The ObamaCare website failure was inevitable
Federal information systems are rife with dysfunction, costing taxpayers billions. [Commentary] Dysfunctional information systems are endemic in the federal government. Officials' incessant talk...
Top PUC official wants PG&E fined $17m for San Carlos pipeline record-keeping blunders
SAN CARLOS -- In a strongly worded rebuke of PG&E and its senior management, a top official with the state Public Utilities Commission on Monday recommended that the utility be fined more than...
Weak administration could undermine the future of pensions (UK)
Regulator’s report exposes data gaps in millions of pension scheme records - the watchdog should not be afraid to bare its teeth If the success of pensions depends on robust administration then the...
Rolls-Royce accused of hiding engine defects
The British engine maker denies claims by two former employees that it concealed records of defects in a "secret set of books". Two former Rolls-Royce employees have alleged the engine maker "cut...
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...
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...
State Audit finds careless record keeping could cost Missouri taxpayers millions (US)
Could careless record keeping cost Missouri taxpayers millions of dollars? It's a possibility as the feds try to recoup millions in questionable welfare payouts. Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich...
CMC Inquiry hears how “huge mistakes” were made
Recordkeeping practices at Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) remain in the spotlight at the ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into the release of sensitive documents from the Fitzgerald...
Audit finds little record keeping at B.C. company involved in fatal bus crash
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia-based tour operator involved in a fatal bus crash in Oregon failed to monitor how long its drivers were at the wheel and kept poor records on the maintenance of its...
House says $1B wasted on veterans’ medical e-records
WASHINGTON — The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have wasted about $1 billion in a failed effort to streamline medical record-keeping, the chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs...
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...
Police failure to act on information re Carl Williams murder
FORMER Victoria Police chief Simon Overland is at the centre of an extraordinary failure by the force to act on crucial information about the murder in custody of gangland boss Carl Williams....
Police courier system used as a DNA crime roadblock
LAWYERS are using a landmark police courier system to argue for evidence to be thrown out of criminal trials.... Lawyers are arguing that lax record keeping from the time DNA samples leave police...
The Pentagon has trouble tracking billions of dollars WRT initiatives to counter IEDs (US)
The Pentagon has pumped billions of dollars into programs to counter the dangers of improvised explosive devices over the last decade but still lacks a way to track whether its initiatives are...
Judge upset by RCMP records backlog
KITCHENER — The federal government is talking about law and order, but it needs to get its own house in order, says a Kitchener judge upset at the huge backlog in the RCMP’s criminal records...
The consultants report on recordkeeping within PG&E (US)
The testimony of Paul Duller and Alison North wrt to the San Bruno Gas disaster is now available on the California Public Utilities Commission website. Read the full report. Records Management...
PG&E faces new probe (US)
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...
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...
PG&E agrees to $3m fine over safety records (US)
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. agreed Thursday to pay an unusual gas-safety-related fine of $3 million for what state regulators called "willful non-compliance" with orders to provide key documents...
Lehman derivatives records a mess: Barclays’ exec
Barclays had no idea how big Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's futures-and-options trading business was when it considered taking over the defunct bank's derivatives trades at exchanges in 2008, a...
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