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Public Records In Florida Still Hard To Get
March 13, 2013 - News Reporters Get Mixed Response In Records Project By Cindy Swirko Gainesville Sun reporters had varying experiences with clerks in several counties as they participated with The Associated Press Sunshine project — some got the requested records immediately without redaction of any information, while others provided the files after several days. The Sun searched through court records available online to find cases for which the hard copies would be requested for viewing at courthouses in Alachua, Bradford and Gilchrist counties as part of the AP initiative. In Alachua County, the clerk told Sun intern Zack Peterson that the files he requested to view would not be available until the Tuesday following his Friday r...
Pennsylvania Judiciary Enhances their Website
March 01, 2013 - Pennsylvania’s judiciary has launched a new website with a dynamic change in appearance, navigation and overall design. The website addr...
Oklahoma Electronic Court Records System Moving Slowly
March 01, 2013 - Progress toward a statewide uniform electronic court records system continues to move at a leisurely pace, with officials estimating that a single...
E-Verify Opposed by Diverse Coalition
March 01, 2013 - Critics of the employment verification system known as E-Verify have expressed their concerns in a letter to Congress that the voluntary program wo...
E-Verify Misses Half of Illegal Workers
March 01, 2013 - The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half of the u...
Massachusetts Announces Public Access Program
March 01, 2013 - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court announced that publicly available Estate and Administration cases are now accessible via...
Calif Judge Reviewing Convictions Under Three Strikes
March 01, 2013 - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has started the process of reviewing cases of California inmates who are serving time under the three-strikes la...
Vinton County, OH Now Online
March 01, 2013 - Vinton County Clerk of Courts Lisa Gilliland announced that the records of the Vinton County Common Pleas Court are now available online. Accor...
Kentucky Courts Need To Update Their Records System
March 01, 2013 - Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John Minton is warning lawmakers that failure to update the state court system’s electronic filing syste...
Debt Kills Love Like A Criminal Record
February 03, 2013 - A recent survey by CreditCards.com found that women would sever a relationship with a lover who couldn't pay routine bills as quickly as she...
Lake County, IN Online
January 15, 2013 - What used to be one of the most populous, yet difficult, counties in the USA to find a researcher, Lake County, Indiana is online. Lake County...
5 Stories Of Background Checks Gone Awry
January 08, 2013 - By Erin Steiner Background checks are one of those things that have become so ubiquitous in our culture that we very rarely even think about th...
Pennsylvania Unyielding In Forgiving Past Crimes
January 01, 2013 - In five years, Melissa T. Benvegno of Allentown sees herself as a juvenile probation officer or even a federal border patrol agent. Not long ag...
California Scores #1 Judicial Hellhole Title
January 01, 2013 - Despite “occasional glimmers of hope,” the American Tort Reform Association has nonetheless placed West Virginia high on its list of an...
Mistaken Murder Arrest Still On Man's Record 37 years Later
January 01, 2013 - James White had forgotten about that night. It had been almost four decades after all. The night in 1975 when Commerce City Police pulled him over...
Free Driver License Status Checks
January 01, 2013 - Motor vehicle records (driving records, title, registration, accident reports, etc.) are not public when the records contain personal information....
Los Angeles Divorce Documents Now Downloadable
January 01, 2013 - The Los Angeles Superior court is now providing imaged Divorce Judgments online. The site offers the option of electronic certification of the...
FTC to Study Data Broker Industry's Collection and Use of Consumer Data
December 30, 2012 - The Federal Trade Commission issued orders requiring nine data brokerage companies to provide the agency with information about how they collect...
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