Giving underprivileged children a head start in life is more difficult now than ever before. Broken homes, urban violence, poorly-funded school districts, inadequate access to health care and constant increases in the cost of living are making life more and more challenging for these kids every day. That’s why, for the disadvantaged youngsters in Los Angeles County, the Head Start-State Preschool program is so vital to their well-being and future success.

Created in 1965, Head Start is the most successful national school readiness program in the United States. It provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. All told, nearly 25 million preschool-aged children have benefited from the program nationwide.
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Even with a well-thought-out security policy, it can be difficult to remember exactly what rights a user or group has to a particular entry in Laserfiche–especially when you take inheritance and group membership into account. Laserfiche provides a tool for quickly viewing the effective rights that a particular trustee has to a folder or document, which you can use to verify that the correct rights have been set, to check whether a user has access to something, or to troubleshoot security problems.

To view a user’s effective rights, select the document or folder you want to check, right-click and select “Access Rights.” Go to the “Effective Rights” tab. By default, the dialog will display the effective rights for the trustee you are logged in as; to view the rights for another trustee, click “Choose” and then pick the trustee from the list. If a right has a check in the “Granted” box, the user has that right; if it is cleared, they do not have that right.

This dialog takes into account all entry access rights that affect this trustee and this folder. That means that entry access rights inherited from group membership will be reflected here, as will entry access rights inherited from farther up the folder tree. Note, however, that it does not take into account other types of rights. For example, if a user has the “Bypass Browse” privilege, they will be able to browse the contents of a folder even if they do not have the “Browse” right displayed; if a user does not have the “Delete” feature right, they will not be able to delete documents even if they have the “Delete Entry” access right.

• Important: You must have the “Read Entry Security” entry access right to view this dialog.

We’ve all seen them: the young man suffering from his first bout of bipolar mania—paranoid, delusional and unable to sleep; the 40-year-old veteran, injured in Iraq, addicted to painkillers and living on the streets; the single mother with schizophrenia—abused, uneducated and unconvinced that antipsychotic drugs will ease her pain.

For the people who struggle with these issues in southeast Texas, Spindletop Mental Health Mental Retardation (MHMR) Services has the resources to support their recovery and relieve their distress. But with over 8,000 patients every year and upwards of 400 employees, Spindletop’s ability to respond promptly to records requests—and, by extension, to patients—was being compromised.
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