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9 Jan

California Closing Criminal Records

SB-731 Automatically Sealing of Conviction and Arrest Records A social justice bill that implements a system to prospectively and retroactively seal conviction and arrest records. 1. The automated sealing of all arrest records that do not result in conviction; and...
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California, Criminal, Public Records California, Criminal

5 Jul

Some California Counties have removed the DOB

From Baxter Research: A number of California Counties have removed the DOB from their public index. This abrupt change is the result of a legal decision against the Riverside Superior Court where a judge ruled that displaying a DOB on...
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California, Criminal, Public Records

21 Oct

Why Does This County Website Link To a Non-Government Site?

Why would a county government website link to a limited-value non-government directory with only three links to that county’s records? There’s so much that’s wrong with the site that calls itself “open public records.” The first line in the introductory...
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4 Oct

Alameda County New FBN Search

The Alameda County, California Fictitious Business Names (FBN) online database has expanded functionality to include a searchable field for owner name. The FBN index can be searched by registrant name or partial name. Formerly, the only name field was the...
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California, Public Records Alameda County, FBN 2 Comments

16 Jan

Illinois State Tax Lien Searches

From BRB Publications: New Procedure in Illinois There is a new Illinois law affecting recording and searches of state tax liens. Effective Jan 1, 2018, all state lax liens are no longer recorded at the county level by the county...
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10 Jun

California Notary Public Database

Each year, the California Secretary of State publishes a list of notaries public who hold active notary public commissions. These can be downloaded as a .zip file and opened in a text editor. Save it to your computer drive and...
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26 May

California Professional License Search

What are you neglecting when you search a commercial or government database of California professional licenses? The California Department of Consumer Affairs license lookup enables simultaneous search of a handful of disciplines. It’s limited and you can’t tell which...
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California, Databases, Public Records Leave a comment

7 May

California County Coroner Reports

Records of deaths reported in California are in various public records, which may supplement each other with, names of family, place and circumstances of death, physical description of the decedent, residence and their employment. Death certificates and obituaries are familiar...
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California, Public Records, Vital Records Leave a comment

1 Aug

Find A Hawaii Birth

We’re spoiled in California. We have a public birth index that lists records into the 1990’s. I also have a supplemental index that goes to 2009 and a microfiche index that has names of adoptees (and their birth name) and...
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Adoption, Hawaii, Vital Records Leave a comment

3 Feb

Online Court Indexes Are Unreliable

Search an online court index. It functions well (some do) and it returns an index record of cases filed for the subject’s name. But you don’t know if “no record found” is a false negative, do you? This is a...
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California, Public Records 3 Comments

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