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What Happened to the Los Angeles County Municipal Courts — and Where They Are Now
January 26, 2026 - What Happened to the Los Angeles County Municipal Courts — and Where They Are Now By Steven Brownstein | The Background Investigator A Brief History: The Rise of Municipal Courts in Los Angeles County For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles County had two tiers of trial courts: Superior Courts and Municipal Courts... The Unification Movement: Prop 220 and the Birth of a One-Tier Trial Court By the late 1990s, California’s court system faced a challenge: inefficiency, duplication, and uneven resource distribution... Where Are They Now? The Former Municipal Courthouses Still Serve — Under a New Name Though the municipal courts as separate entities are gone, their physical courthouses re...
Ethics, Risks, and Liability of the The Record Retriever
December 29, 2025 - If your record provider is giving you "compliance advice" on what you should or shouldn't report, you aren't just getting a tip&m...
Schedule III Marijuana: The DOT and Federal Testing Dilemma
December 23, 2025 - Schedule III Marijuana: The DOT and Federal Testing Dilemma On December 18, 2025, an Executive Order directed the DOJ to expedite the reschedul...
AI Audits & The FTC: The New Era of Algorithmic Accountability
December 22, 2025 - AI Audits & The FTC: The New Era of Algorithmic Accountability The "Wild West" of AI-driven background screening met its match in...
The Puerto Rico Trap: Why a "Certificate" is Not a Search
December 21, 2025 - The Puerto Rico Trap: Why a "Certificate" is Not a Search For years, the "gold standard" for a low-cost Puerto R...
OnlyFans To Require Criminal Background Checks
December 16, 2025 - Creators who want to upload on OnlyFans must already provide multiple forms of personal identification to be able to post on the site, including a...
Kansas launches new court records search system with enhanced features
November 28, 2025 - Searching for Kansas court records just got easier and more comprehensive. The Kansas judi...
Calcasieu Clerk of Court Conceals Violent Crime Records from Public, Defying State Open Records Laws
October 20, 2025 - The policy maintained by the Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court’s Office that requires a signed order from a judge to release viole...
Tulsa City Court Limits Public Access to Court Records
October 02, 2025 - Court documents are supposed to be easily accessible to the public under Oklahoma’s open records law, but Tulsa Municipal Court has removed c...
Nearly Two-thirds of Americans Express Trust in State Courts, Says New Poll
August 18, 2025 - More Americans are expressing trust and confidence in state courts, according to the National Center for State Courts' annual State of the Stat...
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 an...
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...
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