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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Historians fear Australian stories could be lost forever
Historians fear untold Australian stories could be lost without a substantial funding increase for the National Archives to prevent the disintegration of records dating back to the mid-19th century....
Brewarrina Mission connects past and present to Indigenous culture and heritage
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia's largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. ... The separation...
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...
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...
‘Council failings are putting children at risk of harm’
A shocking report has revealed that vulnerable children are being put at risk due to failings in Wakefield Council's services... Recording of social work was deemed to be "poor" in some cases....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Shambolic recordkeeping by the NHS wastes money and endangers patients (UK)
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State criticises Monticello recordkeeping (US)
MONTICELLO — The Village of Monticello is suffering cash-flow problems and its financial operations are rife with shoddy record keeping and at risk of fraud, the state Comptroller's Office said in a...
A burden of proof for Norfolk
A report released last month by the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offered scathing criticism of the city's handling of money intended to help low and...
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....
Review of the parole system in Victoria (AUS)
Following the murder of Jill Meagher , the Victorian government asked retired High Court judge Ian Callinan to review the parole board. In his findings, Justice Callinan portrayed a board that was...
Court fines Boehringer $1m for ‘gross inadequacy’ of recordkeeping
The shift to digital documents has solved some record keeping difficulties, but also created a whole new set of opportunities for accidental or malicious errors. Boehringer ...
Auditor General’s report: Feds failing on rail oversight
OTTAWA Transport Minister Lisa Raitt has issued an edict to top bureaucrats to improve rail safety after a new report uncovered "significant weaknesses" in Ottawa's oversight of the country's...
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...
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...
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...
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