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25 Apr

This week in public records: North Carolina – Montana – Alabama – Arizona

The North Carolina Sex Offender Registry has added email notification and mapping. Search by partial name, city, county, address or physical coordinates to retrieve a list of offenders. Select a profile, then click on the mapping symbol. Expand the view...
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20 Apr

Sacramento County California crime mapping now online

The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department crime mapping program plots crime incidents that have occurred over the previous 3 months. Search by type of crime, address, landmark and within a radius to get reported crimes plotted on a map. Label and print...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States Leave a comment

19 Apr

Coral Gables Police Department crash reports and event reports online

The Coral Gables Police Department has a searchable database of vehicle accident reports and incident reports. Search accident, arrest or incident events by location, name, report number or date. A sortable list is returned with date, type of contact, location...
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Criminal, Florida, Public Records, States Leave a comment

19 Apr

This week in public records: Pennsylvania, Texas, Nevada

Philadelphia will be the first region in Pennsylvania to implement an automated inmate release telephone notification. The service, which just covers local jails, will be available to anyone, not just crime victims, when it goes into operation in June 2007....
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Criminal, Litigation, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Public Records, Texas 1 Comment

10 Apr

Law enforcement agent’s arrest leads to removal of police reports from all court files

The Nevada County, California District Attorney has ordered the county to keep all police reports out of court case files available to the public. Police reports generally are found in criminal court case files although an agency is not required...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States 3 Comments

2 Apr

Silly laws: what to do with court records, sex offenders

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has instituted new rules that abolish fees for petitions to unseal cases. However, the rules require notification of the case parties by the person seeking to unseal the records. The court also ruled that financial...
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Criminal, Maryland, New Hampshire, Public Records, States Leave a comment

23 Mar

A taste of state legislation affecting private investigators

The abundance of state legislation restricting access to public records is depressing for open government advocates. But the head in the sand approach won’t preserve access, so here are some of the Bills under consideration by state legislatures. New Hampshire...
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Arizona, California, Criminal, Legislation, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Public Records, States 16 Comments

11 Mar

Orange County California Criminal index online

The Orange County California criminal and traffic index is now in a searchable database online. According to the press release, the criminal case “on-line application provides hearing dates, times and locations, and charges in criminal cases. Search for case information...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States 3 Comments

1 Mar

Shasta County California inmates online

The Shasta County California Sheriff inmates in custody database is now online. This list is only of inmates who are currently in the Shasta County jail. Select a name from the list to get more individual details, such as charges...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States 4 Comments

28 Feb

This week in public records – Texas – Arkansas – California – Minnesota

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an opinion that county clerks are required to remove social security numbers from documents before releasing them to the public. The outcry from county clerks, subsequently from legislators, has forced him to put a...
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Arkansas, California, Criminal, Minnesota, Personal Data, Public Records, Real Property, States, Texas 4 Comments