International News

• UK Using Big Data To Wirite Minority Reports

  Police in the United Kingdom are partnering with credit reporting agencies to predict whether criminals will reoffend, a report from UK civil liberties group, Big Brother Watch, has uncov...

• Does ClearStar Inc’s (LON:CLSU) -47.31% Earnings

  by Ray Foley   When ClearStar Inc (AIM:CLSU) announced its most recent earnings (30 June 2017), I compared it against two factor: its historical earnings track record, and th...

• Abu Dhabi Goes Online

  Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM Courts) has announced the launch of the ADGM Courts ePortal.   The eCourts platform, according to ADGM, revolutionises the delivery of ci...

• What Is A Magistrate?

  Magistrates are volunteers who hear cases in courts in their community.   They can hear cases in the criminal court, the family court, or both.   Each case is us...

• Devon County Complains About Court Closures

  A body representing rural interests has warned that the closure of magistrates' courts across Devon is putting a strain on police budgets and threatening to undermine access to the ju...

• RCMP Raising Concerns About Changes To Criminal Ba

  The RCMP is taking issue with changes the Liberal government made to criminal background checks and the pardons system, pointing to cases of people with "disturbing" records app...

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National News

• Changes to Massachusetts Regulations on Criminal H

  by Littler Mendelson PC - Allen P. Lohse, Rod M. Fliegel and Jennifer L. Mora   Employers operating in Massachusetts are already aware of the Commonwealth’s Criminal Of...

• Background Check Company Makes False Claims

  A background check company will pay nearly $500,000 to settle allegations that it misled customers about its background check system.   The state attorney general's offic...

• Florida Could Start A Criminal Justice Data Revolu

  There's no such thing as the US criminal justice system. There are, instead, thousands of counties across the country, each with their own systems, made up of a diffuse network of she...

• Getting Driver’s License Puts Arizonans Into ‘

  If you have a driver’s license in Arizona, your face now lives in a government database that uses facial recognition technology to see if you’re really who you say you are, or...

• New York's Criminal Database Will Now Have Access

    Congress closed a gaping loophole in sex offender laws.     Daycares, summer camps and other youth organizations once restricted to New York’s Criminal Data...

• Nevada Arrest Records Go Dark

  by Alexander Cohen   A database of Nevada arrest records that was open to public inspection for decades has been made secret by a new state law.   The Nevada Dep...

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