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Vital Record Fee Increases in CA and IA
March 10, 2014 - Vital Record Fee Increases in CA and IA California Effective January 1, 2014, the fee for obtaining a certified copy of a birth certificate increased from $20 to $25, for a death certification from $16 to $21, for a fetal death certificate from $13 to $18, and for a marriage certificate from $14 to $15. The price increase is in place for documents ordered at either the county level or state level. Iowa Effective January 1, 2014, the fee for obtaining a certified copy of a vital record (birth, marriage, divorce) increased from $15 per record to $20 per record. The Iowa Bureau of Vital Records does keep a divorce index, but no record copies are available. Divor...
Court News: Pima County, AZ
March 06, 2014 - Court News: Pima County, AZ The Pima County Consolidated Justice Court in Ariz...
Background check company vanishes, leaves job-seekers in limbo
February 27, 2014 - Many employers require criminal background checks and fingerprints before considering a job applicant, but the WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team discovered th...
Changes Coming To Information Provided By New York OCA
February 25, 2014 - Court administrators on April 1 plan to stop disclosing 10-year-old misdemeanors to screening companies seeking background information about indivi...
Unauthorized Criminal Background Check Spurs Scrutiny
February 21, 2014 - Direct access to the criminal justice database has been cut off for two police officers assigned to a St. Louis County official security detail whi...
Latest on CDL/CLP Holders and Medical Examiner's Certificate
February 21, 2014 - Latest on CDL/CLP Holders and Medical Examiner's Certificate The following article i...
University Of Florida Under Fire For Background Checks
February 20, 2014 - UF uses a background-checking service whose parent company’s government screening unit is being sued by the U.S. government. The federal...
Peoria County, IL Courts And Jail Go Online
February 19, 2014 - A vast array of Peoria County court and jail records have become available to the public online since the county switched to a new $7 million compu...
Background Check Firm's Slipup Could Cost It
February 18, 2014 - A company that provides background checks must face claims from a man whom it allegedly incorrectly described as a sex offender, costing him work,...
For Every Lawsuit There's A Lawyer Willing To Gamble His Time For A Big Pay Out
February 14, 2014 - A putative class action lawsuit has been filled against a Fresno, Calif.-based Whole Foods Market Inc. unit, charging that its online form seeking...
Humboldt County, CA Ponders Court Record Fees
February 12, 2014 - Be prepared to pony up for court records. One court employee warned, somewhat admonishingly, that asking for a criminal case file without a case nu...
St. Louis Courthouse Becomes Test Site For Facial Recognition Security Program
February 12, 2014 - St. Louis Courthouse Becomes Test Site For Facial Recognition Security Program It took three minutes for James Palmer to make it from the entra...
Report says security background check company received $16 million in awards
February 11, 2014 - The company that performs many of the federal government’s security background checks received $16 million in incentive awards even as it too...
More Virginia Court Records Go Online
February 10, 2014 - After years of resistance, Chesterfield County’s Circuit Court clerk plans to put all criminal court information on the state’s searcha...
Florida Law Firm Discusses Legality of Websites Hosting Mugshots
February 06, 2014 - One of the most significant statutes upholding the rights of the people in the United States is the principle that in a court of law those charged...
Why Criminal DNA Records Should Be Public
February 05, 2014 - New technologies in law enforcement are often mismanaged, with the result being waves of collective fear. The FBI released a report in January abou...
RAM Scrapers at Heart of Massive Retail Credit Data Breaches
February 03, 2014 - Attackers most likely used a random access memory scraper to compromise point of sale terminals at Target and Neiman Marcus, and then steal credit...
Potential Employers are Scaling Back Social Media Screening
January 31, 2014 - Your social media accounts may finally be safe from the prying eyes of potential employers. Background checks that include social media searches ar...
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