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• FBI database can cause you big headaches

  February 25, 2015 - If you've ever been arrested, you were fingerprinted and photographed. Perhaps charges were never filed. Or maybe you paid a fine. Or perhaps police decided they had the wrong person and released you.   You move on with your life — except the arrest might cause you problems later.   Search your name online and you see your mug shot because websites collect them, post them and then charge people as much as $1,000 to remove them. Pay up and the photo may or may not be taken down.   A few weeks ago, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to charge residents to remove their mug shots from websites — a practice that amounts to extortion.   Bu...

• Lawmakers stall plan to raise teacher background check fee

  February 24, 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...

• 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.  ...

• 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...

• Nevada Senate upholds governor's gun background check veto

  February 16, 2015 - CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Senate has upheld Gov. Brian Sandoval's 2013 veto of a bill that would have expanded background check...

• Yakima County may alter rules regarding background checks of job seekers

  February 16, 2015 - Yakima County commissioners are reviewing whether to change county policies regarding background checks of job applicants following the arrest of a...

• New background check policy in effect in Pennsylvania

  February 13, 2015 - In October of 2014, the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives and State Senate approved House Bill 435 to strengthen background checks on fac...

• New NC rule on police body camera videos coming

  February 12, 2015 - A new state body camera video rule, spurred in part by conflict over Asheville police taping public events, is on its way.   Whether t...

• Lawmaker pushes for background checks on high school referees

  February 12, 2015 - Sports referees who officiate games in Massachusetts high schools would be subject to criminal background checks under proposed legislation on Beac...

• Juvenile cases create complicated issues

  February 11, 2015 - The public story of youth crime in Texas is an incomplete one, in part because juvenile records are sealed by law.   Lorenzo Martinez,...

• FBI Confirms Lack of Criminal Background Checks for Airport Employees

  February 11, 2015 - US airports do not check the criminal history of their employees, the FBI's Deputy Assistant Director of Counterterrorism Gary Perdue confirmed...

• Effort to reduce background check wait times fails

  February 10, 2015 - Colorado Senate Republicans on Thursday shot down an attempt to reduce wait times on background checks related to concealed-carry permits. &nbs...