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Category Archives: California

13 Aug

Lake County California Recorder index is now online

The Lake County, California Recorder index is searchable at the county Web site. A search by name or date range returns filing parties, date of filing and document number. No document images are available. The database appears to cover records...
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23 Jul

Legislative research reports: shortcuts to topical summaries of state laws

State legislative research offices answer legislators’ questions and provide bill analysis, generating topical reports. These reports can include summaries of state laws that otherwise would take a researcher hours to compile. In June 2006, the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research...
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18 Jul

California Supreme Court slams out of state telephone recordings

The California Supreme Court has sided with plaintiffs in their complaint against a bank that recorded telephone conversations that originated in Georgia but terminated in California. Georgia allows one-party consent to audio recording of telephone calls but California requires the...
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19 May

Berkeley California crime log plotted on Google maps

Many innovative folks, some who have too much spare time, have found their calling applying the technology behind Google Maps to their own area of interest. One useful application is plotting crime reports on a map. Perhaps the most well-known...
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12 May

California divorce records bill is pulled

Good news for public records advocates: California SB 1015, which would close the financial portion of a marriage dissolution court case and redact all personal identifiers has been withdrawn. The bill met with strong opposition. Women’s rights groups lobbied against...
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10 May

Calaveras County Zoning Maps

Calaveras County California has added Zoning Plan Maps to its online site. Select an area on a countywide map to retrieve the pdf of the specific plan...
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3 May

FTC seeks permanent injunctions in federal court against phone subscriber data brokers

The Federal Trade Commission, with assistance from the major cell phone carriers, has filed civil suits in 5 federal jurisdictions against resellers of telephone call records, seeking to bar them from this activity and to press them to deliver, to...
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23 Apr

California legislature revises divorce records closure bill

The California legislation that can’t be reworked enough times is back in a barely revised form. Assembly bill 1015, which would remove financial information from a divorce record at the request of either party, is opposed by First Amendment advocates,...
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4 Apr

California phone pretexting legislation advances

As I surmised, California SB 1666 has sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on its way to the full Senate. Reported in California...
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19 Mar

Napa County California Recorder Index

The Napa County Recorder index is online and, as in most jurisdictions, returns limited information: document type and number. One curious addition would seem to violate two tenets of the Public Records Act: equal access and reasonable fees for direct...
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