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After two months of public hearings by the state panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre, one thing has emerged most clearly: The state's system of dealing with the mentally ill is in almost desperate need of repair.
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Members of a Senate panel today told Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker that they had doubts about the progress they had reported in testimony yesterday.
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Confusion over privacy laws blocks the sharing of information about troubled college students on many university campuses, according to a report released Wednesday on the Virginia Tech shooting.
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University CIOs at Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World conference said they are under scrutiny to find ways to better communicate in disasters in the aftermath of the shootings at Virginia Tech in April.
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A component of state transportation legislation that would shift responsibility for planning and building secondary roads to Northern Virginia localities is a nonstarter, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday.  Kaine made his comments after meeting with regional leaders.
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In this illustration released by the APVA Preservation Virginia, tools for the surgeon&#39;s chest, taken from John Woodall&#39;s &#39;The Surgeon&#39;s Mate,&#39; published in 1617, are shown.
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 13--Virginia's political hierarchy is on the last leg of a relay race to create an overdue fix of the state's transportation system.
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Election officials watched Monday as a technician repeated a repair he had made to a vote tallying computer, then announced they had found no evidence of any sort of tampering, despite a congressman's request for an FBI probe.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 24--After the mass murder in April of 32 people at Virginia Tech University and the disclosure that the gunman suffered from mental illness, Faisal Ahmed wanted to provide Mid-Missourians access to information about mental health.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hasn't finished implementing most of the IT security improvements recommended by federal auditors after a laptop containing sensitive data was stolen from an employee's home in May 2006.
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(InfoWorld) - The cybersecurity provisions in a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) bill approved by Congress late last week are in some ways too narrow and in others too broad, a cybersecurity group says. The Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act, largely focused on veterans' health-care programs, includes a section on information security requiring the VA to report data breaches of any "sensitive" personal information, potentially including breaches where only veterans' names were exposed, said Liz Gasster, general counsel for the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), a trade group representing cybersecurity vendors. The bill, passed by Congress late last week, requires the VA to report breaches of sensitive personal information to Congress and requires VA Secretary R. James Nicholson to create plans for notifying affected veterans, as well as offering credit monitoring and identity theft insurance to affected veterans. If the VA ends up notifying veterans every time a document with just names on it is lost, veterans may become numb to breach notifications that contain real dangers, Gasster said. Thirty-four enacted state data breach notification bills require that a name be coupled with other data, such as an unencrypted Social Security number, drivers' license number or financial account number. "Essentially, the loss of a list of names on a piece of paper constitutes a data breach under the law, which seems far too broad," she said. "Clearly, your name is not sensitive personal information." The VA announced in mid-May that a laptop and hard drive containing the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and their spousesÂ had been stolen from an employee's home about two weeks earlier. Police later recovered the hardware, and VA officials said the personal information had not been compromised, but the breach set off a firestorm of criticism from Congress. In addition to its potentially broad definition of sensitive personal data, the bill does not exempt the VA from reporting data breaches if the information was encrypted, Gasster said. In supporting a national data breach notification bill, CSIA and other groups have called on Congress to exempt encrypted data from notification rules, saying the exemption would encourage companies and government agencies to encrypt more data. The lack of an exemption "seems like it deprives the benefit of encryption from the VA," Gasster said. Although the bill's language on personal sensitive information and encrypted data is too broad, in some ways the bill doesn't do enough to protect consumers, Gasster added. The bill only addresses VA data breaches, not breaches at other government agencies or private companies. CSIA and some consumer groups have pushed for a national data breach notification bill after a rash of breaches in early 2005, but Congress failed to pass a notification law. While the VA's large breach generated significant attention from Congress, other agencies have lost dozens of laptops containing personal information in recent years, and private businesses continue to have breaches, Gasster said. CSIA wants a bill that would require agencies and companies to take reasonable security measures to protect data, Gasster added. A spokesman for Senator Larry Craig, the Idaho Republican who sponsored the veterans bill, didn't return messages seeking comment on the CSIA's concerns.
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Dave Leitao's rebuilding job at Virginia is progressing nicely. The second-year coach asked his team for a progress report against No. 8 Duke, and he had to love their answer.
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 25--Local governments violate Virginia's Freedom of Information Act with impunity, ordinarily protected from penalty by compliant local judges and by the unwillingness of people to sue city leaders to force them to follow the law.
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By Mike Lee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 27--FORT WORTH -- High-ranking city officials tried to hush up nearly $2 million in cost overruns in the city's information technology department, according to a lawsuit by a former manager in the department.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- A panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre obtained university mental health records of the student gunman after weeks of negotiation with his family, officials said Thursday.
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By Michael Sluss and Mason Adams The Roanoke Times mike.sluss@roanoke.com (804) 697-1585 mason.adams@roanoke.com (804) 697-1584  RICHMOND -- A white-hot debate over transportation funding may have  sucked much of the oxygen from the 2007 General Assembly session.
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In one week, much has changed for Virginia and Virginia Tech. The latest proof comes as the Cavaliers top the Hokies, 65-60.