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12 Feb

Facebook, Criminal Records and People Finders

A new feature has been introduced at the most popular social networking site, Facebook — which it’s calling Truescoop –, a name search that identifies people by their state of residence and date of birth and, for some, criminal record...
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Criminal, Databases, Personal Data, Public Records 3 Comments

6 Feb

This week in public records: California

A California appellate court has settled a public records case — the right of access to a Santa Clara County GIS parcel mapping database — in favor of the plaintiffs, the California First Amendment Coalition. The county alternately demanded an...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, Real Property, States Leave a comment

11 Jan

Do Public Records Belong To the Public?

The Iowa legislature is chewing over the notion that open government records may be responsible for identity theft and should be restricted. The Identity Theft Prevention Study Committee met last month and developed a collection of recommendations, including redacting certain...
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Arizona, Criminal, Iowa, Personal Data, Public Records, States 4 Comments

1 Dec

Think Twice Before Going Undercover

Who would have thought that creating a fake profile on MySpace (a violation of their user agreement) could lead to a criminal conviction? The recent verdict in the case of Lori Drew concluded that she was guilty of computer fraud...
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Criminal, Web tools 57 Comments

1 Oct

Ohio Drunk Driver Database

A database of convicted drunk drivers is slated to go online by the end of 2008, hosted by the Ohio Department of Public Safety. Ohio’s SB 17 mandates the creation of an Internet registry listing personal information on repeat offenders....
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Criminal, Databases, Ohio, Public Records, States 2 Comments

27 Sep

Database of the Day: Homicide In Chicago 1870-1930

Northwestern University hosts this searchable database of homicides in Chicago that occurred between 1870 and 1930. The mandatory search field is street name, but many other criteria can be added. Read the description of this massive project, transferring handwritten records...
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Criminal, Databases, Illinois, Public Records, States 3 Comments

31 Aug

University Campus Crime Maps

[UPDATED 2014] If you subscribe to PI buzz Alert you may have seen the link I included to UCrime, a crime information mapping site of recent crime incidents at universities. Search by address or date (2008 only) to see reported...
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Criminal, Public Records, Web tools 1 Comment

29 Jul

CriminalSearches – A free criminal records resource

Is it a tool, or will you be fooled? That all depends on how familiar you are with searching criminal records. Read my review of this criminal records search guide if you’d like to learn more about how criminal records...
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Criminal, Databases, Public Records 8 Comments

12 Jul

This week in public records: Jurors, Courts and Sex Offenders

Juror names and jury questionnaires are public records and subject to disclosure even if a trial judge has made promises to the contrary. At least in North Dakota. A ruling by that state’s Supreme Court, cited by the Associated Press,...
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Alaska, California, Criminal, Databases, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Public Records, Tennessee 2 Comments

7 Jul

How To Find the New Web Page

I don’t regularly check the currency of the links in prior postings, but you may have realized that many links on the Internet are good one day and dead the next. One way to find the new page is to...
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Criminal, Public Records, Web tools 2 Comments