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U.S. Prison Population Declined For Third Consecutive Year
September 12, 2013 - U.S. Prison Population Declined For Third Consecutive Year During 2012 The U.S. prison population declined 1.7 percent from 2011 to 2012, falling to an estimated 1,571,013 prisoners, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. It was the third consecutive year of a decline in the number of state prisoners. Nine states had a decrease of more than 1,000 prisoners in 2012: California, Texas, North Carolina, Colorado, Arkansas, New York, Florida, Virginia and Maryland....
Small Town Takes Unique Approach To Fighting Shoplifting
September 11, 2013 - Police in Rosenberg, Texas, are taking an unusual approach to addressing the recent increase in shoplifting in the town. Part of that approach...
BRB Public Record News
September 10, 2013 - There is a lot of misinformation around about public record searching. How many of the following six statements about public record searching do yo...
New Michigan Law Makes Shoplifting A Crime That Results In Prison Time
September 09, 2013 - In Michigan, the newly passed Organized Retail Crime Act, sponsored by Genesee County State Rep. Joseph Graves, has moved shoplifting from being co...
Rockdale, GA Goes Online
September 06, 2013 - The Rockdale County Superior Clerk’s Office recently unveiled an online system that permits attorneys to access court records and calendar...
New Redaction Law - Illinois Civil Case Documents
September 05, 2013 - Effective July 1, 2013, personal identify information became not allowed in documents or exhibits filed for proceedings in Illinois civil court cas...
Erie County, OH Online
September 04, 2013 - About two weeks ago, Erie County clerk of courts Luvada Wilson unveiled more than 1 million pages of court documents online. It means anyone &...
Saline, AR Goes Online
September 03, 2013 - Carrie Marrow of Garland County spends a lot of time online. She isn’t freshening her Facebook page; she is searching out the history of real...
Do you know who to trust with your applicants' personal information?
August 29, 2013 - By Robin Watkins Have you ever googled "health tips"? If not, I can tell you that the search identifies over 759,000,000 sites....
Sales Clerk Fired for Sharing a Picture of His Paycheck on Instagram
August 28, 2013 - Social media have opened all sorts of avenues for getting in trouble at work, from oversharing workplace gossip on Twitter to old Facebook photos s...
Woman Arrested For Forgery After Criminal Background Check Altered
August 27, 2013 - The Newton County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office has arrested a woman and charged her with forgery after she allegedly forged a criminal backgrou...
U.S. Prison Population Declined For Third Consecutive Year During 2012
August 22, 2013 - The U.S. prison population declined 1.7 percent from 2011 to 2012, falling to an estimated 1,571,013 prisoners, according to the U.S. Bureau of Jus...
Nose Spray Narcan Reverses Overdoses In Mass. Town At High Rate
August 21, 2013 - The police department in Quincy, Mass., is requiring officers to carry a nasal spray that reverses overdoses from opioids, which are heroin and pai...
BRB Public Record News
August 21, 2013 - Governor Brown Backs Down According to news stories released today (June 20, 2013) by the Los Angeles Times, Governor Jerry Brown reversed his...
Les Rosen's Corner
August 20, 2013 - In a Memorandum Opinion issued in the case of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. Freeman, Judge Roger Titus of the U.S. District Cou...
Swift being sued for not disclosing it used background checks in hiring
August 12, 2013 - Swift Transportation has been sued in a federal court for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by not disclosing to applicants that it...
Potential pet adopters face criminal background checks
August 08, 2013 - Animal shelters would be required to do criminal background checks on people wishing to adopt animals to ensure they haven’t been convicted o...
States Take On Feds As EEOC Oversteps Boundaries
August 01, 2013 - Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced that West Virginia, together with attorneys general in eight other states, sent a letter to the U.S. Eq...
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