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21 Apr

Database of the Day: Pardons and Commutations

The Department of Justice lists clemency recipients from 1989 to 2001. Name, type of relief, year sentenced and offense are included, and for some years, the federal district in which the charges were filed. The Alabama Board of Pardons and...
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Databases, Government, Public Records, States 1 Comment

21 Apr

SSNs removed from online federal contracting database

A complaint about Social Security numbers exposed on a federal government contract and grants awards online database has lead to their removal from the Census database and from FedSpending.org, OMB Watch, which operates the database of financial awards, has removed...
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Business, Databases, Government, Public Records 1 Comment

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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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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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

15 Apr

This week in Internet Search: RootsWeb, SearchSystems, LawQuest, Voompeople

Here are some new, merely worthy of a mention and updated search portals, search engines and databases. Genealogy RootsWeb – Newspaper Indexes Search for the appearance of personal names in some historical newspapers. Public Records Portals SearchSystems – New Web...
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13 Apr

Personal information: business background and more legislation

Private investigators may discover new research sources and approaches reading, Gathering Competitive Intelligence for Litigators and Business Lawyers (April 2007, Wisconsin Lawyer), Tony Chan’s roundup of online personal information databases and Web sites for the legal field. Much of the...
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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

10 Apr

Database of the Day: Texas Athlete Agent

The Texas Secretary of State Athlete Agent search has been added to the other business activity registration database searches at the Texas SOS Web site. The other types of entities that can be searched by name or business name are:...
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6 Apr

Database of the day: Pennsylvania Lobbyists

Search the Pennsylvania Department of State Registration database of lobbyists and lobbying firms, and the organizations they represent. A full or partial name or firm name returns a detail of the lobbying disclosure form, required for those who lobby elected...
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