July 21st, 2005

~ national sex offender registry - not quite online, or national ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

We have the beginnings of a government sponsored site that links to all the state sex offender registries. The activity level has been so great at http://www.nsopr.gov/ that the server has been down, making the site inaccessible. Remember the long lines at gas stations in the 1980’s? Just wait a minute and everything will settle down. The following states are currently participating. Hence, national is not really national.

Maryland
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
Arizona
Colorado
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana

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July 21st, 2005

~ new social security number validator ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

Robert Scott, of The Investigator’s Little Black Book, has tossed his hat into the ring of SSN validators, launching SSNValidator, still in beta mode. Like the several other online validator services, Scott offers a few searches for free, then you gotta pay. It used to be standard to get a confirmation on the validity and date of issuance of a SSN when running the number through an address header, but now it’s broken out as a separate fee service. More nickel and diming. I can’t get real excited about receiving less for more money.

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July 19th, 2005

~ sex offender reports ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

Discrepancies between county and state sex offender registries may be more pronounced than in other criminal indexes, as demonstrated in this example in Missouri. One private site that was plotting sex offender addresses on Google Maps ceased operating because 2/3 of the reported addresses were inaccurate.

And, for those of you who want to keep current on sex offender news stories, check out SexOffendersReport.

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July 19th, 2005

~ government telephone directories ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

The telephone numbers for Contra Costa County, California public agencies can be accessed here.

Links to Federal telephone directories and agency numbers are listed here and another list is compiled by FirstGov. An imperfect set of search returns for states’ government agency telephone directories are listed in these Google results . Each states’ information telephone number and the web address is neatly arranged on this page.

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July 18th, 2005

~ new york school district to charge for public records ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

The New York City schools will charge an additional fee for documents that require redaction of any information.

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July 18th, 2005

~ interview with texas attorney general on public records ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

The Texas Attorney General talks about public records and mentions that security tapes at public university are subject to the Public Records Act. Read the interview (free subscription)

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July 18th, 2005

~ new employer search pretriever ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

Search the SimplyHired site by employer and/or geographical region to see who’s hiring.

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July 17th, 2005

~ check local ordinances before dumpster diving ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

I wouldn’t cite anything that happens in Blacksburg, Virginia (population 39,000) as a trend, but their City Council is considering slapping fines on dumpster divers, if a complaint is lodged. This reminds those of us who are fond of other people’s trash to check local ordinances before engaging in this practice. It’s no surprise that the weak document destruction policies of financial institutions is fueling the current concern.

Blacksburg Town Council is considering an ordinance that would make scavenging in trash cans or Dumpsters a class 3 misdemeanor after WSLS Channel 10 reporter Denise Eck aired two stories in May about banks that threw out customers’ financial information without shredding it.

The article ends with the responsible conclusion that criminalizing curbside trash pickups probably wouldn’t stand up to a legal challenge, considering that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled long ago that garbage in a public space is not private. I previously did a long posting on this topic, Why Your Neighbor’s Garbage Is Yours, Or Not.

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July 14th, 2005

~ wisconsin court of appeals denies policeman’s request for records under the state public records law ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

Cop number 1 alleges that cop number 2 sexually harassed her. Cop number 2 requests the records generated related to the allegation, under the Public Records Act, but the police chief issues a denial. Cop sues to get records, looses, then appeals, looses. The state Supreme Court rules in the same vein. Hempel v. Baraboo

Chief Justice Shirley Abramson’s opinion, referred to in this news story, suggests a troubling outcome of denying access to public agency records.

“Faced with trying to craft a standard to cover this decidedly unexceptional case, the majority opinion ends up, despite its assertions, creating a rule that unfortunately can be applied in a broad array of cases to deny access to records,” she wrote.

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July 14th, 2005

~ ohio sunshine laws update ~

By Tamara Thompson Investigations

Ohio’s Attorney General has just released the 2005 Public Records Act and Open Meetings Act handbook, a 185 page pdf of the statutes and case law regarding the application of public records and open meetings law in Ohio.

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