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  • NY courts put attorney discipline records online for public

    February 24, 2015 - The New York court system has added records showing whether an attorney has been disciplined to its publicly available online database.   Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman says that's in addition to other information like an attorney's current registration status and year of admission.   While the database includes public disciplines going back decades, he says the Unified Court System's website, through its attorney directory, links readers to disciplinary orders issued since 2003.   Lippman says the public has a right to know, "however uncomfortable or inconvenient the facts may be."...

  • Handheld background checks for NSW police

    February 23, 2015 - A trial of new smart phones for about 500 NSW police officers means they'll be able to look up the backgrounds, bail conditions and sometimes p...

  • Lawmakers stall plan to raise teacher background check fee

    February 20, 2015 - A proposal to increase how much Idaho teachers pay for background checks may be dead, despite a $55,000 deficit looming in the state education depa...

  • New Pennsylvania state law requires school volunteers to obtain background checks

    February 20, 2015 - New state regulations requiring volunteers in both public and private schools to get criminal and child abuse background clearances could lead to a...

  • Lawsuit filed against new gun background check law

    February 19, 2015 - OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Opponents of a new expanded gun background check measure in Washington state are asking a federal judge to block parts of the...

  • Pennsylvania weighs open records access fee

    February 18, 2015 - Allegheny County receives about 750 open records requests a year.   About 200 are from prison inmates and 150 from commercial entities...

  • FBI redacts Public Records requests

    February 17, 2015 - Everyone knows how the NSA can intercept our personal information, from account numbers and Internet history to phone passwords.   But...

  • Walsh administration slow to release public records

    February 17, 2015 - The administration of Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who vowed to increase transparency at City Hall, took more than two months to respond to a request for...


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