April 22, 2024 - Requests for Individual Records Not Affected A statewide database of dead Ohioans with the names and addresses associated with the causes of death is not available to the public via a public records request because it contains “protected health information,” the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today. In a 5-2 decision, the Supreme Court rejected the claim of former Columbus Dispatch Reporter Randy Ludlow, who sought the cause-of-death information from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The department provided Ludlow with requested spreadsheets with vital information from death certificates, including sex, age, and cause of death, but not the names and addresses of thos...
April 21, 2024 - A federal judge ruled in March that ProPublica’s lawsuit against the secretary of defense should move forward, as the news organization seeks...
April 09, 2024 - For the first time, Magistrate Court information is now available online in West Virginia. Chief Justice Tim Armstead made the annou...
April 01, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance to consumer reporting companies to address inaccurate background check report...
March 01, 2024 - There's a lot of talk about LA County redacting identifiers from court records. We only need to go back a liitle bit in time to.... th...
January 19, 2022 - A district court judge in Virginia on Friday found Virginia’s online civil court system violated First Amendment rights of the press an...
July 10, 2021 - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday vetoed a wide-ranging bill that would have limited public access to certain government records. ...
July 09, 2021 - Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders who are looking for work could be facing new challenges in their job hunt. Set to start in Jul...
February 16, 2021 - A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black an...
February 03, 2021 - The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has asked a judge in Franklin County to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the cities of Dayton and Columbu...
January 31, 2021 - The Comanche County Courthouse will reopen to the public Feb. 16, Central District Commissioner Johnny Owens said Friday. While offi...
January 20, 2021 - Orange County Superior Courtintroduced an online portal for those with traffic infractions and lower-level criminal cases, part of an ongoing effor...
January 19, 2021 - A Southwest Missouri county is making it easier to connect with the county court online. Erik Theis, Jasper Co. Courts Admin, said,...
January 18, 2021 - Less than a month after advocacy groups said they would sue Allegheny County if it did not provide electronic access to its criminal court proceedi...
September 16, 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic has led to inconvenience, unprecedented case backlogs and issues that the nation’s state courts haven’t faced...
September 08, 2020 - Proceedings are instituted in the name of the Queen in the Supreme Court and in the name of the Commissioner of Police in the Magistrate's Cour...
September 04, 2020 - Similar to the U.S. system, criminal activity in Mexico falls under either federal or state jurisdiction, but the Mexican system classifies crimina...
September 01, 2020 - By: Michael Gaul Ordinarily when we talk about a product or service, we focus on what it is. Features, benefits, advantages. We speak to what i...
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