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Is The USA Recording All Telephone Calls?
May 14, 2013 - The United States government may be playing Big Brother to the hilt - by recording your phone calls and getting access to them anytime it wants. At least this was the claim of Tim Clemente, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation counterterrorism agent, in an interview on CNN. "(W)elcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not," he said, according to a report on UK's The Guardian. He indicated this could be the case of Katherine Russell, 24, the American widow of deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Anonymous government officials had been quoted in earlier reports as saying they are zeroing in on phone calls between Russell and...
First Time Look Inside A Tribal Court
May 13, 2013 - The Hoopa Valley Tribal Court is a model for other tribes in the region, as they develop their own laws and court systems. Chief Judge Richard...
Cook County, IL Records Go Mobile
May 10, 2013 - People with legal matters in Cook County courts now have access to countless court records in their pockets, thanks to a new mobile application....
Justice Dept.: Citizens Have Right to Record Police in Public
May 09, 2013 - The Justice Department has written two letters to the U.S District Court in Maryland supporting the Constitutional rights of citizens arrested for...
Prison Guards Low Pay No Excuse For Taking Bribes
May 07, 2013 - A shocking indictment of 13 Baltimore prison guards is an extreme example of what happens when people on the "lowest rung" of the crimina...
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges Against Marketers of Criminal Background Screening Reports
May 06, 2013 - The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Filiquarian Publishing LLC, Choice Level LLC, and their CEO, Joshua L...
Man Tricks Charity Into Paying For Fake Background Checks
May 03, 2013 - A serial fraudster who tricked a disabled children's charity into paying £14,000 for fake criminal record checks has today walked free fr...
Denver police increasingly rely on video surveillance to solve crime
May 02, 2013 - Almost as soon as a gunman fired shots into a crowd during Saturday's massive marijuana smoke-out in Civic Center park, Denver police were on a...
Lawmaker Introduces Background Checks To Regulate Who Owns "Aggressive" Dogs
May 01, 2013 - A criminal background check, state license, and completed education course: is that really necessary to own a dog? A North Carolina lawmaker says &...
Supreme Court Vote May Have Smashed Record Checking Business
April 30, 2013 - Americans do not have a right to obtain public records from states other than their own, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, dealing a setback to busin...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
April 29, 2013 - Spain arrests woman with cocaine breast Spanish police arrested a Panamanian woman who land...
Strangest Traffic Stop, Ever: Police Find 56 King Cobras in Vehicle
April 29, 2013 - What’s worse than police officers pulling over a car full of gun-toting criminals? Probab...
EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance
April 29, 2013 - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued an updated Enforcement Guidance on employer use of arrest and conviction records in...
Old enough to be a criminal?
April 25, 2013 - Children below a certain age are too young to be held responsible for breaking the law. That concept is spelled out in the Convention on the Rights...
Why Missouri may be giving a French conglomerate access to your personal information
April 25, 2013 - Some Missouri state senators say the Department of Revenue is failing to protect your personal information when you renew your driver's license...
Americans with Access to Classified Information Nears 5 Million
April 24, 2013 - Based on the latest data published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the number of individuals cleared for access to c...
LexisNexis Pays $13.5M To Settle Suit
April 19, 2013 - LexisNexis Risk & Analytics Group Inc. will pay $13.5 million and overhaul its Accurint background search product to settle a national class ac...
Cost Of Records Keeps Going Up
April 11, 2013 - Jan Jarman, a Wichita attorney, wanted to find out why her daughter was denied placement at a local high school. The school district told her it...
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