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• Cedar Rapids offering tenant background checks for landlords

  September 20, 2013 - The Cedar Rapids Police Department is now offering $8 background checks for Cedar Rapids landlords. The program is called Secure and Friendly Environment for Cedar Rapids, or SAFE-CR, and will be managed by the police department. The program officially kicks off on Oct. 1, but the police department is offering the service early. City code requires that Landlord Business Permit Holders perform background checks on all adults who newly occupy a rental unit. At a minimum, the background checks require reports of activity from Iowa Courts Online, the Iowa Sex Offender Registry and the National Sex Offender Registry. The SAFE-CR check will also include Cedar Rapids arrest information not included in the Iowa Courts Online...

• New Report on Effects of Prison Education

  September 17, 2013 - A research report sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) finds that, on average, inmates who participated in correctional education pr...

• Wisconsin Online System Questioned

  September 16, 2013 - The latest attempt to restrict public access to a popular online court records database is once again attracting opposition from media groups, l...

• 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, falli...

• 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...