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Errors Discovered in New Bexar County Criminal Records Database
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 process of being expunged, Bexar County officials told reporters a few days ago The system went live Monday, June 3, and was taken down Wednesday to address the problems. Though that work is ongoing, the portal reopened Thursday evening. “This is a huge undertaking, taken on in order for us to get to the state-of-the-art, up-to-date [system] which will make it more user-friendly, make it more open, make it more transparent [and] make it so the media can have more meaningful access,” Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai said at a press conference the same day....
Database Collection of Death Information Not Public Record
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...
Military Court Records Might Go Public
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...
West Virginia Magistrate Court Records Now Online
April 09, 2024 - For the first time, Magistrate Court information is now available online in West Virginia. Chief Justice Tim Armstead made the annou...
USA Agency Lays Down the Law on Flawed Background Checks
April 01, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance to consumer reporting companies to address inaccurate background check report...
LA County Redacted Identifiers from Online Docket
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...
Federal judge rules Virginia’s restricted access to court records violates First Amendment
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...
BREAKING NEWS - Missouri governor Parson vetoes bill that would have limited access to public record
July 10, 2021 - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday vetoed a wide-ranging bill that would have limited public access to certain government records. ...
Michigan Supreme Court Ruling On Court Records Could Mean Doom To Background Checks
July 09, 2021 - Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders who are looking for work could be facing new challenges in their job hunt. Set to start in Jul...
Maine Newspapers Challenge Rule Concealing Electronic Court Records
February 16, 2021 - A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black an...
Lawsuit filed against The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) for inaccurate criminal record
February 03, 2021 - The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has asked a judge in Franklin County to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the cities of Dayton and Columbu...
Comanche County Courthouse to reopen Feb. 16
January 31, 2021 - The Comanche County Courthouse will reopen to the public Feb. 16, Central District Commissioner Johnny Owens said Friday. While offi...
Orange County, Calif. courts add online portal for easier access to traffic and criminal cases
January 20, 2021 - Orange County Superior Courtintroduced an online portal for those with traffic infractions and lower-level criminal cases, part of an ongoing effor...
Jasper County, Missouri launches new courts website
January 19, 2021 - A Southwest Missouri county is making it easier to connect with the county court online. Erik Theis, Jasper Co. Courts Admin, said,...
Allegheny County courts to provide public with remote access to criminal proceedings
January 18, 2021 - Less than a month after advocacy groups said they would sue Allegheny County if it did not provide electronic access to its criminal court proceedi...
'Disruption we needed’ can lead to better court services, says CCJ/COSCA
September 16, 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic has led to inconvenience, unprecedented case backlogs and issues that the nation’s state courts haven’t faced...
Bahamas Criminal Proceedings - What Happens Where
September 08, 2020 - Proceedings are instituted in the name of the Queen in the Supreme Court and in the name of the Commissioner of Police in the Magistrate's Cour...
Mexico's Justice System Explained in a Nutshell
September 04, 2020 - Similar to the U.S. system, criminal activity in Mexico falls under either federal or state jurisdiction, but the Mexican system classifies crimina...
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