International News

• The Background Investigator Goes To Puerto Rico Fo

  by Fred Frankel   In a continuing series, The Background Investigator sends its attorneys and staff researchers to various countries around the world to explore the justice s...

• Jamaican Expungements Increase

  Since the start of the year, a total of 570 criminal records have been expunged, 245 of which were done during the April to June 2017 period, according to the Ministry of Justice. &nb...

• Canada's National Database Of Criminal Records Wil

  The RCMP says it will now need until 2020 to finish uploading nearly half-a-million backlogged files to a nationwide criminal-record database, despite previously saying the job would be d...

• The Most Criminal Name In Australia Has Been Revea

  The Most Criminal Name In Australia Has Been Revealed. And it’s not Ivan   If you had to have a stab at the most criminal first names what would they be? Bonnie may...

• Cayman Court Records Dispute Enters International

  The domestic dispute over the Cayman Islands court system’s new restrictions on photocopying public records has ballooned into a potential international incident. The publisher of a...

• Malaysia ID Card Lost Can Create A Criminal Record

  The individuals, who lodged false police report on their lost identity card (IC) to avoid being fined by the National Registration Department (NRD), would bear a life-long criminal record...

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National News

• How Many People Are Really Killed By Police In The

  by Kate Wheeling   How many people are killed by police every year in the United States? It depends on whom you ask.   The federal government tries to track this...

• Decentralization of Small Claims In CT

  by BRB   Effective Monday, October 16, 2017, the Centralized Small Claims Office located at 80 Washington Street, Hartford, CT 06106 will be closed. Any new small claims...

• Judge Rules That Colorado' Sex Offender Registry L

  Judge Rules That Colorado' Sex Offender Registry Law Is Unconstitutional posted on BRB Blog     On August 31, 2017, the U.S. District Court in Colorado ruled tha...

• BRB Publications Launches Free Online Portal for S

  BRB Publications Launches Free Online Portal for Searching Public Records     BRB Publications, the nation's premier publisher of references and websites used for lo...

• Taiwan Toughens Background Check Requirements

  On July 27, Huang Yueh-li, director of the Ministry of Education’s Department of Lifelong Education, announced a number of measures after the Supplementary Education Act was amended...

• Maine’s Court Records Will Soon Be Online

  The general public could soon be blocked from accessing nearly all state court files online.   The change is part of a proposal by the group charged with figuring out how to...

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