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  • NW Ohio Courts Doing Their Job

    April 20, 2018 - The Governor of Ohio, John Kasich,  proposed a crackdown on courts that fail to timely report criminal convictions for inclusion in the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.   While some Ohio courts remain backlogged in getting the information to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which uses the information to update databases for background checks, a review of quarterly BCI reports listing noncompliant courts shows that courts in northwest Ohio are, by and large, doing their job.   “Homeland security alone is a good reason why we do it,” said Lucas County Clerk of Courts J. Bernie Quilter, whose office was not cited for violations on any of the reports since BCI b...

  • Everyone In the Cook County Criminal Court System Too Busy Pointing Fingers To Fix Its Antiquated Re

    April 18, 2018 - from the carbon-paper?--seriously? dept   When you write regularly about lawsuits, you learn very quickly that not all court systems a...

  • FCRA Class Action Lawsuits Will Continue to Target Employers Performing Background Checks

    April 16, 2018 - by Thomas Ahern     On May 16, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins that plaintiffs must prove “con...

  • D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information is Not a Computer Crime

    April 15, 2018 - Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information: A district court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that using automated tools to...

  • Crime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Fare Much Better Than Untrained Humans

    April 13, 2018 - The American criminal justice system couldn’t get much less fair. Across the country, some 1.5 million people are locked up in state and fede...

  • When modernization gets in the way

    February 13, 2018 - I sent a researcher a request that I wanted help with. I thought it would be a good idea.   ----Me: Hello, Steven Brownstein here....

  • Crim-checker IT System Update Fail Has Cost UK Taxpayer

    February 06, 2018 -   MPs have slammed the IT overhaul behind the UK government's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which is running three years late resu...

  • About NCIC

    February 02, 2018 - About NCIC     The Files: The NCIC database currently consists of 21 files. There are seven property files containing records of...

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