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Category Archives: Maine

4 Jul

Database of the day: Funeral homes and directors disciplinary actions

Search the online records of disciplinary actions from 2000 to 2007 for funeral homes and funeral practitioners at the Maine Board of Funeral Service. Use this advanced search query at the Google search engine. In this example, I’ve searched the...
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4 Jul

This week in public records: Alabama – California – Maine – Virginia

The well established may disappear overnight in the realm of online government records. Visitors to the Jefferson County, Alabama Probate Court online records search – the site for images of land records, personal property and probate recordings – were recently...
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Alabama, California, Databases, Maine, Personal Data, Probate, Public Records, Real Property, States, Virginia Leave a comment

23 Mar

A taste of state legislation affecting private investigators

The abundance of state legislation restricting access to public records is depressing for open government advocates. But the head in the sand approach won’t preserve access, so here are some of the Bills under consideration by state legislatures. New Hampshire...
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Arizona, California, Criminal, Legislation, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Public Records, States 16 Comments

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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Arizona, California, Data Brokers, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Oklahoma, States, Telco, Washington Leave a comment

19 May

Maine cell phone customer records covered by new privacy legislation

Last week, the governor of Maine signed into law LD 2038, An Act To Protect the Privacy of Cellular Telephone Customers. The law specifically bans the unauthorized acquisition and sale of subscriber cell phone records. Read the press...
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16 Apr

Maine yanks sex offender registry

Considering the number of sex offender registrants who are listed on government Web sites the recent two killings in Maine seem to be an anomaly. Perhaps the Maine State Police got nervous, fearing a trend…or, what? They pulled the plug...
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