April 22, 2025 - The FTC staff looked at a company selling background reports that include information fro...
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...
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...
February 23, 2025 - The USA has "misdemeanors" which are comparable to less serious offences in the English system. It's important to unde...
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...
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...
December 12, 2024 - Sterling Infosystems, a consumer reporting agency that sells background checks, falsely reported to a prospective employer that a job candid...
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...
August 08, 2024 - Access to Michigan public records, specifically criminal records, is useful tool for looking up someone's criminal past. MichiganCriminalRecord...
July 27, 2024 - New York City’s law requiring employers to audit and notify candidates about the use of automated employment decision tools will be enforced...
June 14, 2024 - When it comes to civil lawsuits, most states use two levels of court: a limited jurisdiction court that manages lower amounts in controversy and a...
June 09, 2024 - In the first days after its launch, a new publicly searchable criminal records database accidentally showed records that were incorrect or in the p...
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 de...
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...
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