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The Cultivated Approach To a Political Appointment
The hospital notified law enforcement authorities and is working with National ID Recovery, a company that monitors for signs of identity theft. The service will be free to patients.
Dyson said he has introduced legislation because there is no statute that requires businesses such as the hospital to reveal incidents such as the laptop theft. Dyson's bill would mandate that businesses take steps to protect personal information.
  Earl F. "Buddy" Hance was named deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Agriculture. (By James A. Parcell -- The Washington Post) |
It would apply to the compilation of the information as well as to the destruction and disposal of old files, requiring adequate security practices in both cases.
The proposal also would require businesses to notify individuals when there has been a breach of security that could result in personal information being acquired by someone not authorized to have it.
On Campus
State Del. John L. Bohanan (D-St. Mary's) has introduced a bill aimed at alleviating the chronic shortage of election judges -- the people who oversee voting at polling places every election day.
In a statement announcing his proposal, Bohanan said it was an outgrowth of a suggestion made by Zach Messitte, a professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. The idea, Bohanan said, is to make serving as an election judge easier for students and staff at the state's college campuses.
Bohanan's bill would increase scheduling flexibility by:
? Allowing local election boards to appoint election judges to serve for all or part of an election day.
? Enabling the boards to apportion the compensation of election judges on the basis of each day or part of day worked.
Other provisions in the bill, Bohanan said, are intended to encourage students and faculty members at institutions of higher education to vote. To that end, the state's public campuses would have to close normal academic activities on the day of a general election.
Each election board also would have to establish a polling place at every public or private institution of higher education in its county.
Black Women's History
Black History Month activities continue throughout Southern Maryland, including a program depicting the lives of black women through history to be presented Saturday at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Maxine Maxwell, teacher and actor, will perform "Echoes of the Past" at 8 p.m. in St. Mary's Hall on the college's campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The program shows the lives of five African American women, allowing the audience to see what it has been like to be a black woman over the past 150 years.
Women spotlighted in this production include Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells and Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine.
Maxwell is from St. Louis, where she graduated from Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts. She has taught theater workshops and worked as a producer in the New York area.
