Colorado legislature aims to close divorce and marriage records
March 4th, 2006 | Author: Tamara Thompson
The Colorado legislature is on the verge of sealing files in divorce records and marriage applications from the public. There are no exceptions for genealogists or other legal uses of these documents in the marriage applications bill. Financial records in divorce files may be available to debt collectors. Is this privacy fever run amuck? Surely, absolute closure isn’t the course the privacy advocates are seeking.
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“This is not necessary. People who want to use information for bad purposes will always find a way to do it.” — at least not in an easy way.
[...] Colorado data brokers –more than one bad rap By Tamara Thompson A Colorado newspaper has revisited a couple of sore subjects for private investigators: the closure of that states’ public records, which I detailed last month; the information broker whose high profile antics set in motion the Gramm-Leach-Bliley legislation. [...]
This is not necessary. People who want to use information for bad purposes will always find a way to do it.