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4 May

Alabama removes social security numbers from public records

Alabama Governor Riley finalized legislation that will redact social security numbers from some newly filed public records. Read the press release. Under the new law, if a person does not give consent to reveal their Social Security number on a...
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4 May

Oklahoma marriage licenses retain social security numbers

The Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts issued an advisory on its Web site that marriage licenses are still required to list the parties social security number. In light of recent legislation and questions about the need to collect social...
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3 May

Louisiana legislature proposes altering police reports

The Louisiana legislature is considering SB 731, Prohibits the release of certain criminal information to the general public, which would remove the narrative portion of police reports from public access. This is the substance of the report, which describes the...
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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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28 Apr

Data on political and corporate financial links

The financial dealings and corporate connections of politicians are accessible through a recently launched Web site operated by the Center for Public Integrity. The news release describes the tool features and data sources. This aggregation of data on money influences...
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27 Apr

Colorado data brokers –more than one bad rap

A Colorado newspaper has revisited a couple of sore subjects for private investigators: the closure of that states’ public records, which I detailed last month [read RCFP’s update]; the information broker whose high profile antics set in motion the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...
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23 Apr

Connecticut Supreme Court votes in favor of records closure

A Connecticut Supreme Court decision upheld a lower court’s determination that certain court case files are not public records. The lopsided ruling is expected to draw fire from some legislators who vow to consider this loophole in the public records...
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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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23 Apr

Navajo Nation to create sex offender registry

The Navajo Nation has approved a measure that will require those convicted of sex related offenses who work or live on Navajo land to register with the Chief of Police. Read the AP story Legislation No. 0875-05: An Act Relating...
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Arizona, Criminal, States Leave a comment

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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