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15 Feb

California Civil Court proprietary databases become less useful

Those of you who have been following my musings over the past year on my prior blog, PI News Link, know the pitfalls of the California court indexes maintained by the data brokers. My posting, Court Records Site Surveys-Part Four,...
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Data Brokers, Public Records 7 Comments

10 Feb

Utah legislature restricts public records

The Utah House...
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21 Jan

California Circuit court keeps divorce files open

The Second Circuit, Court of Appeal for California (Los Angeles) has published an opinion upholding last year’s ruling by the Superior Court that divorce proceedings cannot be closed to the public. I previously wrote about the case in which Ronald...
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Divorce, Public Records 2 Comments

19 Jan

Massachusetts court rules harvard u police reports are not public records

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that the police reports of the Harvard University Police Department are not public records. The Court also rejected The Crimson’s claims that private entities, once endowed with certain state powers, become public entities. Instead,...
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18 Jan

Congress proposes bill to criminalize unauthorized access to telephone account information

The Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006 was introduced by Senator Charles Schumer as pressure bears down on Congress to reign in Internet data brokers selling telephone call logs. Schumer leads his press release with rally-the-troops language. SCHUMER UNVEILS...
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Criminal, Regulation, Telco Leave a comment

13 Jan

San Francisco conference on criminal defense investigations

Anytime of the year is a good time to be in San Francisco. April is really lovely. An added bonus, if you’re a criminal defense investigator, lawyer, mental health expert, jury consultant, journalist or anyone else concerned with the rights...
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11 Jan

South Carolina judge prevents journalist from viewing a divorce record

One of my pet peeves about newspaper websites is their myopic identity. If there are any newspaper publishers out there, listen up. I landed on the Aiken Standard page looking for the story of a judge who closed a public...
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Public Records, South Carolina, States 2 Comments

9 Jan

Colorado judge closes court records

The chief judge of Jefferson County, Colorado has closed divorce and probate files to the public because he doesn’t have the staff to institute the Supreme Court directive to remove personal information from the case files. Other states are redacting...
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14 Dec

Court records site surveys – part four

I want to alert you to a potential data glitch between the court records index at the court site (if they even have a site) and the data they send to the commercial providers. I conducted a name search on...
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Data Brokers, Public Records 1 Comment

30 Oct

Criminal records site surveys – part three

There are free sites and there are many fee sites to research names in criminal records indexes. When you need to use a fee site you want one that is most specific to your needs but is comprehensive. Keep in...
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