Find a private or public school, college or library at the National Center for Education Statistics, searching by name of school, city or zip code. Add a radius range of 1 to 50 miles to get other area... Read more »
The Beaufort County criminal and civil case index is online, searchable by personal or business name. Criminal cases return date of birth and defendant... Read more »
The Maryland Judiciary Rules Committee will consider a proposal to deny public access to electronic or paper files that have personal identifiers. The proposal, if accepted will amend the Maryland Rules of Procedure pertaining to court records access, specifically Rule... Read more »
The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) discovered that Superior Court Chief Judge Rufus King ordered the removal of dates of birth from the criminal index. No formal order has been issued. Yesterday, the Superior Court, District of Columbia,... Read more »
The criminal and civil court index for Hendricks County, Indiana is online. Searchable by name or case number, it covers cases filed from September 1992 to the present, and for criminal cases returns the defendant’s address, offense date and disposition.... Read more »
States are on a course of assigning a value to particular crimes by segmenting them into boutique registries of sex offenders, methamphetamine manufacturers, domestic violence perpetrators and now a proposed registry for those convicted of violent non-sexual offenses against youth.... Read more »
The Rhode Island Senate has passed a bill that will give law enforcement special access to telephone company records for subscribers without first obtaining a warrant. This should be of special interest to criminal defense investigators who could face prosecutors... Read more »
The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice research organization, concludes in its recent report, Methamphetamine; The Next Big Thing?, that the public perceptions and media exaggerations of a meth epidemic have affected drug policy and sentencing of offenders. The report summary... Read more »
Before there was any electronic access to personal information databases for finding people, private investigators trudged down to our local or state government offices to look up all public records. Once I located someone through a county dog license application.... Read more »