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Hack of PACER Court Records System Terrible But Not Surprising
August 11, 2025 - Four years ago, Free Law Project founder Mike Lissner wrote a post on his site titled, “PACER and CM/ECF are a Threat to National Security and Must be Urgently Overhauled.” That missive came a few months after the U.S. Courts admitted its case management and public records systems (CM/ECF and PACER, respectively) were hacked as part of the Solar Winds breach of 2020. The response? Having documents categorized as “highly sensitive court documents,” or HSDs, filed in paper form or via thumb drive and not uploaded to CM/ECF. (Not awful from a transparency perspective since, per the U.S Courts, “sealed records” — some of which the hackers are thought to have accessed &md...
New Orleans City Workers Search Landfill For Mistakenly Discarded Court Records
August 07, 2025 - New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to salvage court records that the city er...
UK Crime Declines
July 30, 2025 - Number of crime offences in England and Wales 2002-2025 by D. Clark There were approximately 6.59 million crimes recor...
The History of Court Record Research - 1980's
July 24, 2025 - The History of Court Record Research - 1980's The United States often prides itself on the principle of open courts, where judicial proceedin...
CRA's "The New Age" - Before anything else, confirm identity.
July 23, 2025 - CRA's "The New Age" - Before anything else, confirm identity. Digital identity verification has become an increasingly integral com...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Walmart
July 07, 2025 - A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday against Walmart for firing Black workers with criminal records. Former workers, attorneys...
Always Do This First When Using A Public Access Computer for a Record Check
June 25, 2025 - Court Record Searches - Do this first before you begin: When a court record provider manually searches for criminal records via a public...
The Cost To Access Court Records In Utah Is About To Go Up
June 16, 2025 - Utahns might want to look up online court records to track a case they’re involved in, background a date or check into a neighbor’s his...
Willful Violations Of the Fair Credit Reporting Act
June 14, 2025 - Is An Employer’s Inclusion Of A Liability Waiver In A Background Check Disclosure Still A Willful Violation Of the Fair Credit Reporting Act...
Tribal courts enforce their own tribal laws, many of which you will find linked below.
May 25, 2025 - Extensive information on tribal courts is readily available online for research, with a particular emphasis on providing direct links to tribal jus...
The FTC Warns - Use Adverse Social Media Searches Carefully
April 22, 2025 - The FTC staff looked at a company selling background reports that include information fro...
Cleveland Municipal Court Still Offline
March 12, 2025 - Cleveland Municipal Court is set to reopen Wednesday, Jan. 12th, following a cyberattack, but the court’s website will remain down for...
WVPASS online circuit court records system launches in W.Va.
March 11, 2025 - A new online court records system is live in West Virginia. On Monday, Jan. 10th, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia laun...
What is the British term for USA's Misdemeanors?
February 23, 2025 - The USA has "misdemeanors" which are comparable to less serious offences in the English system. It's important to unde...
Social Media Search Leads to Lawsuit
January 20, 2025 - On September 11, 2024, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that there is no publication to a third party — and therefore no Article III...
Problems Continue For Palm Beach, FL Court Computer System
December 14, 2024 - The computer problems plaguing the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts continue Saturday, although there are some signs that a fix may be near. What...
A Host of Procedural Errors Lands Sterling in Hot Water
December 12, 2024 - Sterling Infosystems, a consumer reporting agency that sells background checks, falsely reported to a prospective employer that a job candid...
CRA'S Get Sued For Screening Out Candidates by Criminal Record
August 28, 2024 - Third-party employee screening companies are finding themselves more in the litigation fray in California for blocking job seekers with criminal re...
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