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• Ottawa,OH Clerk of Courts website down, records unavailable

  December 03, 2013 - The Ottawa County Clerk of Courts website has been down for more than a week because of computer issues, and while the Ottawa County Common Pleas Court website is up, its online docket listings and the record search capabilities are down. Ottawa County Commissioners Jim Sass first learned about the issue Thursday. “We probably ought to look at it and see what’s going on,” he said. Ottawa County Clerk of Courts Gary Kohli said he first thought there was a problem with the software package his office uses to keep records, including felony court cases, civil actions and domestic relations cases. “Apparently there’s a problem with the hard drive,” Kohli said. The computer problems mean...

• Unemployment Makes Women More Likely to Be Victims of Crime

  November 26, 2013 - Crime and unemployment are linked, but not always in the ways we think they are. Thanks to the work of three UK researchers, it's now clear...

• Texas Sues EEOC over Guidance for Criminal Background Checks

  November 22, 2013 - The State of Texas has filed suit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over Guidance for use of criminal records of job...

• They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets

  November 20, 2013 - At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session...

• Weak Global Economy Contributed To $112 Billion Loss From Retail Theft

  November 20, 2013 - According to the Global Retail Theft Barometer released on Nov. 12, the retail industry lost more than $112 billion worldwide last year due in part...

• Personal Devices Pose Biggest Threat To Corporate Security

  November 19, 2013 - Security software provider, Check Point, has found that 93 percent of US and UK companies use mobile devices to connect to corporate networks, whil...

• 7 Surprising Things That Could Make You A Sex Offender

  November 12, 2013 - It's hard to imagine that a sex offender registry — a public database run by states — would include anybody who wasn't an adult...

• Viewpoint: Tax maps and public records (Ohio)

  November 11, 2013 - County engineers don’t often get much attention, but they perform some vital functions. In Scioto County, one of those functions – the...

• Bad idea for Target not to ask for criminal history

  November 07, 2013 - An article on the Huffington Post published on Oct. 29 stated Target was planning to dismiss criminal background questions in job applications....

• Hair testing and Drug Use

  November 06, 2013 - Men pay to make it grow. Women spend lavishly to dye, cut and coordinate it with their wardrobe. But these days, hair isn't just a key acce...

• KPMG Report: Despite Regulatory Scrutiny, Companies Often Miss Risks Posed By Individuals And Busine

  November 05, 2013 - Five years after the global financial crisis, businesses are struggling to manage the mounting risks posed by ever increasing regulatory requiremen...

• Asheville, Buncombe NC crime databases offer access to public records

  November 04, 2013 - Two relatively new online databases, from the Asheville Police Department and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office, offer extensive access to cri...

• Georgia Senators hear hard stories of criminal records problem

  November 01, 2013 - Sarah Hamilton’s January arrest based on a mistaken identity has kept the whole family in turmoil even after police dropped the charges again...

• Utah Hooks into FBI Cybercrime Data

  November 01, 2013 - Utah is the first state to participate in an FBI pilot program to allow law enforcement agencies to search its central Internet-crime database....

• How criminal records worsen the jobs gap

  October 31, 2013 - The Twin Cities region has one of the country's widest racial gaps in employment, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The advocacy grou...

• NAPBS Wants Name Check Searches Not Fingerprint ID Checks

  October 31, 2013 - This is an NAPBS Red Alert H.R. 2083 The House of Representatives passed H.R. 2083, Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators A...

• Virginia creates resident database from DMV records

  October 30, 2013 - The state government has been quietly collecting driver data from the Department of Motor Vehicles to create a database of residents, according to...

• Ohio Habitual OVI Offense Database Error-Ridden

  October 30, 2013 - Ernest Kirk, of Ross County, doesn’t appear on a database created so the public can track habitually drunken drivers, despite facing his 11th...