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• Senate clears rollback of background-check rule for president's signature

  February 22, 2017 - The Senate voted Wednesday to overturn a rule barring gun ownership for some who have been deemed mentally impaired, clearing the measure for President Trump's signature.   The Obama-era rule required the Social Security Administration to send records of some beneficiaries to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System after they’ve been deemed incapable of managing their financial affairs because of a disabling mental disorder, ranging from anxiety to schizophrenia. The Senate voted 57—43 to rescind the rule, following House passage largely along party lines on Feb. 2.   The move is the new Congress' first effort to roll back gun regulations. The Senate needed only 51 votes for pas...

• Indiana Trial Court Documents Free And Online Through Odyssey

  February 21, 2017 - A wide range of Indiana trial court documents will soon be available online for free through the state's case management system, Odyssey, at my...

• States, Counties, Cities, Your Government Sells Off Public Access To Private Contractors

  February 17, 2017 -   Tom MacWright, a software engineer who cycles to work in Washington, D.C., would be breezing along 14th Street NW when he suddenly would fin...

• Kane County, IL Adding DOB's To Search Results

  February 14, 2017 -   Kane County's newly launched Odyssey Case Management System is helping the county's entire judicial process — from the start o...

• Hopkinsville Joins ‘Ban The Box’ Effort for Criminal Records on Applications

  February 14, 2017 - The City of Hopkinsville is following Governor Matt Bevin's lead removing questions about criminal convictions from job applications. ...

• Shelby Court To Get New Justice Information System

  February 09, 2017 -   Shelby County, Tenn., plans a major change to the computer system that tracks information about criminal cases.     ...

• Texas Court Clerks Wary Of Single, Statewide Access To Records

  February 09, 2017 -   Texas clerks of court are at odds with the state over its plan to implement a statewide online access system for court records, to be run by...

• Colorado education department asks thousands of educators for new criminal background checks

  February 08, 2017 - About 3,000 Colorado school district employees have been or will be told they must get new criminal background checks after a routine FBI audit fou...

• Lawmakers eye background check expansion for teachers

  February 06, 2017 - Indiana lawmakers are proposing a significant expansion of background checks on school employees during this year's legislative session. &n...

• The Background Bar Is Rising

  February 03, 2017 - One of the toughest things in HR is only getting tougher. Changing rules and growing risks mean employers must work harder to keep up with rising s...

• Civil Rights Group Concerned Amazon Policy on Background Checks May Harm Minority Drivers

  February 02, 2017 - The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice has sent a letter to Amazon that expresses “profound concern” over r...

• Ohio Paying Nearly $11 Million to Replace Criminal Background Check System

  February 01, 2017 - The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has awarded a $10.8 million contract using money allocated by lawmakers in the state capital budget...

• OK Co. Court Clerk To Preserve First Official Criminal Records

  January 27, 2017 - The Oklahoma County court clerk is working to preserve the county’s early indictment records from more than a hundred years ago. The effo...

• Background Check Proposal To Prevent Sex Crimes In Schools

  January 23, 2017 - As Indiana lawmakers consider measures to strengthen the state’s background check laws, the Indiana Department of Education is investigating...

• Gun background checks in Fla. top one million for first time

  January 20, 2017 - For the first time, the state's Department of Law Enforcement conducted more than one million background checks on people seeking to buy a gun....

• Massachusetts Had Lowest Death By Gun Rate In The Country In 2015

  January 18, 2017 - Massachusetts had the lowest gun death rate of any state in the country in 2015, the Violence Policy Center reported Tuesday, citing federal gun de...

• New law would require background checks for masseuses

  January 17, 2017 - Massage therapists may soon need to submit their fingerprints and get a criminal background check to get a license in Idaho.   Massage...

• Study finds one fifth of gun owners obtain firearms without background check

  January 16, 2017 - Twenty-two percent of gun owners who reported obtaining their most recent gun in the last two years did so without a criminal history background ch...