Searching for the location of a county but don’t know the state? Or maybe you want a list of all the states with a particular county name. Here’s where you go.

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Searchable database by name of decedent covers 70 percent of Utah’s graveyards.

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It had to be. Probably the only benefit to the low cost ID theft insurance is the compensation for wages lost due to time away from work repairing damaged credit.

The trial courts in New Hampshire are awaiting a decision by the State Supreme Court before any criminal index information or documents are posted to the Internet. Meanwhile the NH District Federal Court is making all recently filed criminal documents available from the convenience of your computer. Read the article

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Make a request online.

Joe Navarro has a friendly enough face that you could enjoy listening to him for two and a half hours at the upcoming California Association for Licensed Investigators conference, in Reno, June 22-24. Oh, he’s also an FBI expert in counterintelligence and counterterrorism, and teaches behavioral analysis and nonverbal communications to law enforcement. His topic for the conference is, The Psycho Pathology of a Terrorist. You know you want to hear this, even if Mr. Navarro’s hair is too short.
Navarro has been quoted in news and blogs, where he questioned the abusive interrogation tactics used on some detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Joe Navarro, a former FBI (news - web sites) interrogator who has taught questioning methods and is familiar with Guantanamo, said treating prisoners poorly makes them more stubborn and unwilling to talk.
“The military has been cavalier in their attitudes toward these individuals to the point that it has been detrimental to the overall mission,” Navarro told AP.

He’s also a featured writer of many articles in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.

Public Record Update reports that US Certs joins VitalChek Network as a government authorized provider of birth, death and marriage certificates.

The challenges of storing and transmitting personal data are reflected in the recently highlighted spate of data thefts and penetration of computer systems. Data is also being pilfered by bank employees and then, as in this case, being sold to individuals who, in my mind, have a legitimate business need for this information, which is illegal to obtain by pretext.

This fellow, Lembo, posed as a collection agency and got high level bank employees to sell him bank account information at $10 per name.

“Based on forensic examination of Lembo’s computers, it was determined that he had employed upper-level bank employees to access and identify individual accounts in their respective banks,” the police statement said. “That information was then sold to his clients, which included more than 40 law firms and collection agencies.”

Debt collection agencies and, attorneys executing judgments and litigating cases in which a parties’ finances are relevant, should be able to independently verify an account holder’s assets. But right now that is illegal. The court may award your client a Judgment but the federal government has taken away some of your authority to collect on the debt.

And attorneys can’t insulate themselves from prosecution by hiring someone else to secure financial information by pretext. So, don’t even ask! It is yet to be seen if New Jersey follows through on this threat but Hackensack PD Captain Lomia is floating it in the press.

Lomia said the law firms that allegedly sought Lembo’s services are part of “phase two” of the investigation.

There are a few well informed posts on this topic at Schneier on Security.

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The Post-Gazette ran a five-part series on the challenges of obtaining public records in Pennsylvania. I previously posted the first article.

Public Access: Government offices wrongly giving public less access than press

Public Access: Clerks often shut doors to records due to lack of procedures

Public Access: Police logs public in Pa. but many agencies won’t provide them

Public Access: District courts follow variety of redaction policies

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Searchable database of information on and reports of adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals.