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• N.C. Court Orders Man To Show Clients His Criminal Record

  March 17, 2013 - A Morehead City man was convicted in Craven County Superior Court Friday for obtaining property by false pretenses after not honoring a contract to build a dock for a couple’s retirement home. Charles Robin Webb, 53, received a suspended 8 to 10 month sentence, and was placed on supervised probation for three years. As a special condition of probation, he was ordered to present to any future customers a printed copy of his criminal record, so that they would know of his prior convictions for fraudulent conduct before they choose to give him any money. He was also ordered to pay the victims of this crime $6,000 in restitution. According to an indictment filed in November, 2012, and information presented in open court, Webb e...

• Facial Recognition System Leads To Thousands Of Fraud Arrests

  March 17, 2013 -  After kicking off facial recognition technology, the NY Department of Motor Vehicle says the state was arresting people by the thousands for...

• Bill to Increase Felony Theft Threshold in Maine to $5,000 Upsets Retailers

  March 13, 2013 - A Maine legislator recently introduced a bill that would raise the felony theft threshold from $1,000 to $5,000, a move that retailers say could in...

• 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 seve...

• 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...