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Category Archives: Florida

17 Oct

This week in public records – Maryland – Wisconsin – Florida

A committee of the Maryland Judiciary has reconfirmed that juror personal information is a public record, although access varies from nil to extensive, depending on the court. Once again, it takes the determination of a media outlet to enforce or...
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7 Oct

This week in public records – Florida –

Open records advocates need to be constantly vigilant to challenge the closure of public records. The Indian River County, Florida Sheriff has shut down their online inmate search database because they didn’t have a cost effective means to filter out...
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4 Oct

California AG indicts executives and data brokers for identity theft

The legitimate corporate governance issues that prompted the leak investigation by Hewlett-Packard has fallen from the front pages, now covered with the long expected indictments by the California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, who is a current candidate for State Treasurer....
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3 Oct

California law bans unauthorized access to telephone call logs

It is little surprise that Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 202, Privacy: telephone calling pattern record or list, making the acquisition of a telephone subscriber’s phone call records a crime.[Read more at Computerworld] Any person who purchases, sells, offers to purchase...
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18 Sep

HP pretexting debacle and reality journalism

The methods that HP contractors used to secure telephone call logs, “the pretext story”, repeated ad infinitum, has reporters looking for new approaches to this story. The San Jose Mercury News has posted the transcript of a call to Verizon...
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11 Sep

This week in public records – Florida – Military

A committee appointed by Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Lewis is recommending public hearings before a judge can seal a court file. Rules drafted by the Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers would require judges to hold a...
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5 Jul

Florida moves to next phase of implementing electronic court records

The Florida Supreme Court has issued an order in response to Report of the Committee on Privacy & Court Records, designating Manatee County for its pilot project assessing Internet access to court records. The court has also issued standards for...
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2 Jul

Can expunged records be reported in background screening?

It’s little surprise that Florida, which has had one of the most open and accessible public records of all the states, –long available to private data agreggators– has drawn fire for the appearance of expunged criminal records in commercial databases....
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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

Florida legislature nixes unauthorized access to telephone records

The Florida legislature has added its imprint to the mounting stack of bills that state governments have passed which outlaw acquiring or selling telephone customer account information. House bill 871: Relating to Telephone Calling Records is summarized: Telephone Calling Records;...
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