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Category Archives: Public Records

23 Dec

Building your subject’s resume through alumni directories and Facebook

School alumni directories verify place of attendance, but so much more. They can launch your search to find where someone works, for example. And you know that’s a challenge with a common name. The alumni sites are designed for use...
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18 Dec

New Hampshire Civil Unions, Marriages, Births and Deaths Online

Too many government agencies have their public records buried in their websites, obscurely titled and often vital records aren’t indexed online at all. Last year, I wrote about Connecticut towns that included civil unions among their online records indexes. New...
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New Hampshire, Public Records, States 2 Comments

11 Oct

California professionals’ certifications – Are they a public record?

Now they are, but then they weren’t. The law hadn’t changed. I made a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request for an electronic record of the names and license numbers for all certified nurse assistants and home health aides, maintained...
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25 Sep

Find Housing Authority Records

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds “Section 8” housing, — locally administered, publicly owned housing — usually multi-unit buildings that residents can apply to live in who meet certain income, age or disability criteria. HUD-funded multi-unit...
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FOIA, Public Records, Real Property, Regulation 1 Comment

19 Aug

California Bell tolls, but not much

The proposed California Senate Bill 501, “Local government: compensation disclosure”, isn’t an earth-shattering transparency measure. Particularly in light of the Bell city government pay debacle. The measure would require officers and designated employees to annually file a compensation disclosure form...
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29 May

Private Investigator Research Links – April 3 – May 4

Acronyms and Abbreviations and Texting Lingo "The Acronym Finder allows users to decipher acronyms from a database of over 600,000 entries covering computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military." Netvibes – Realtime information gathering Custom keywords monitored on the web. A...
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28 Feb

Online court indexes are incomplete

Public records researchers know that the online court case index for any one county may not be as reliable as the one maintained at the courthouse. BRBPub reports that as much as 15 percent of counties have inaccuracies. Some of...
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Public Records "online court index" 2 Comments

16 Feb

Private Investigator Research Links – Week of February 12

KnowEm Username Check "Search over 350 popular social media networks to instantly secure your\nbrand across the social web." CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TELEPHONE LIST CloudMade Maps Proposed Model Jury Instructions The Use of Electronic Technology to Conduct Research on...
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4 Jan

California and Nationwide Traffic Citation Records

Even if you don’t need to identify traffic citations for your subject, a citation database places your subject in a region on a specific date. Monterey County, California has a traffic citation database separate from the court case traffic index...
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19 Nov

State and Federal Case Law Now On Google

Google Scholar is indexing the case law in all 50 states – Court of Appeals and Supreme Court – and the federal courts. As with the other Google search engines, Google Scholar makes use of its own advanced search operators....
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Government, Legal, Public Records, States case law, federal courts, google scholar, state courts Leave a comment

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