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1 Mar

Shasta County California inmates online

The Shasta County California Sheriff inmates in custody database is now online. This list is only of inmates who are currently in the Shasta County jail. Select a name from the list to get more individual details, such as charges...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States 4 Comments

28 Feb

This week in public records – Texas – Arkansas – California – Minnesota

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an opinion that county clerks are required to remove social security numbers from documents before releasing them to the public. The outcry from county clerks, subsequently from legislators, has forced him to put a...
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Arkansas, California, Criminal, Minnesota, Personal Data, Public Records, Real Property, States, Texas 4 Comments

28 Feb

California Supreme Court ruling on misrepresentation and invasion of privacy

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a county trial court must determine whether a psychologist used subterfuge to obtain an interview with the foster mother of a woman who had claimed as an adult a repressed memory of childhood...
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California, Litigation, Personal Data, Privacy, States 1 Comment

21 Feb

Find employees through restaurant inspection reports

A faithful reader clued me into the usefulness of restaurant inspection reports for finding names of employees at a business. Search the Sacramento County, California Food Facility Restaurant Inspection Reports database by partial street name or facility name. The reports...
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California, Public Records, States, Virginia, Washington 2 Comments

16 Feb

This week in public records – Florida – North Dakota

The Florida Sexual Offenders and Predators database is now available en Español. The public’s right to access public records supersedes laws relieving government agencies from compiling new records, according to a recent North Dakota Attorney General Opinion. The Department of...
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15 Feb

Texas marriage license applications and divorce index files

The Texas Department of State Health Services has downloadable files of marriage license application and divorce indexes, organized by year. These are records that are available through other sources, usually for a fee, but if you want to work directly...
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Databases, Public Records, States, Texas 1 Comment

10 Feb

This week in public records – California – Arizona – Indiana – Florida

Madera County, California real property parcel maps can be searched by address and viewed online. The Sacramento County, California probate court is adding online document images to its Web site. Only cases filed after February 5, 2007 are currently included....
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Arizona, California, Criminal, Florida, Government, Indiana, Litigation, Probate, Public Records, Real Property, States Leave a comment

7 Feb

Minnesota & Tennessee meth makers registry

The Minnesota Methamphetamine Offenders Registry was approved last July but has just come online this year. A search can be done with an exact match on the last name, or select a county to identify all records. Other states have...
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Criminal, Minnesota, Public Records, States, Tennessee meth offenders, registry 1 Comment

6 Feb

Missouri Bill Seeks Licensing, Regulation of Private Investigators

The Missouri News is reporting the latest news on a bill introduced by Sen. Harry Kennedy, (D) of St. Louis. Missouri is only one of 6 remaining states that does not regulate private investigators. This bill would also include continuing...
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Missouri, PIs In the News, Public Records 9 Comments

3 Feb

Why the judgments and liens databases will become obsolete

You may have noticed that there’s a trend toward eliminating personal identifiers – social security numbers, dates of birth and addresses – from all public records. Any publicly filed documents containing social security numbers are subject to being altered, removing...
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Government, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Personal Data, Public Records, Recorder, Vermont, Virginia 4 Comments