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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 businesses and researchers who gather data across the nation. The unanimous decision upheld laws in Virginia and a handful of other states that release some public records only to their own citizens. "This is disappointing. We have a national information economy now, and all sorts of activities depend on data from all 50 states," said Washington attorney Deepak Gupta, who represented two men who had challenged the "citizens only" provision of Virginia's public records law. Despite the ruling, Gupta said the trend has been for states to open their public records o...
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...
Retailers Track Employee Thefts in Vast Databases
April 07, 2013 - Facing a wave of employee theft, retailers across the country have helped amass vast databases of workers accused of stealing and are using that in...
Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business
April 07, 2013 - Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off. The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer...
Do Criminal Record Disclosures Breach Our Human Rights?
April 05, 2013 - JURIST Guest Columnist Serge Diaz, University of Edinburgh School of Law Class of 2015, discusses the effects of a recent ruling by the UK Court of...
Denver police increasingly rely on video surveillance to solve crime
April 03, 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...
Public Safety Technology in the News
April 02, 2013 - High-Tech NYPD Unit Tracks Criminals Through Facebook and Instagram Photos DNAInfo.com, (03/25/2013), Murray Weiss The New York Police Depart...
Mike Brownstein's Super Screening Blog
April 01, 2013 - State makes online background checks easier Want to know if your babysitter got busted for child abuse? If police pinched a would-be employee f...
Les Rosen's Corner
April 01, 2013 - USCIS Publishes New Form I-9 for Employment Eligibility Verification On March 8, 2013, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) p...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
April 01, 2013 - Here Come The Judge He may be known as the "shirtless judge," but there's now concern about Wayne County Circuit Judge Wad...
Lake County, IL Going Online
April 01, 2013 - Court information will no longer be accessible just during business hours Monday through Friday. The Circuit Court will launch remote public ac...
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