The Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that data on school district computers may not be a public record, which would have to be determined on a case by case basis. Evan Brown discusses this case and...
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The days of slipping unnoticed into a school to interview a teacher or student may become a distant memory if personal identification technology expands beyond this Florida district. The Collier County Public School District has selected GVI Security to provide...
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Amazon has a new angle on mapping and spacial imaging, available at A9.com. Unlike the aerial satellite photographs available through Google, A9 is collecting street level views, from the human perspective. A handful of cities, and those are only partially...
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Search for trucking companies by company name, location or owner/operator to get address, telephone number, email or owner names within a specific...
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This Florida county is the first in the state to apply a computer software program to redact personal identifiers from newly filed documents, in preparation for possible reposting on the Internet. County websites no longer display court records, pending a...
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A new law in Missouri requires any government agency posting personal information on the Internet to first obtain permission from elected and appointed officials before making their addresses available. But when this public information is available on everyone else, it’s...
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California SB 506 will add an additional group of public officials to the roster of those whose personal data is confidential. Keep this idea filed in the back of your hat. When subject to a potential threat, various government employees...
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is seeking comments on several questions that have been submitted for opinions regarding access to public records. One query, from Assembly Member Jay La Suer (R-La Mesa), implies that some politicians view journalists as lower...
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I do a fair amount of genealogical research related to tracing principals in long defunct companies or building family trees for real state quite title matters. Surname spellings vary quite a bit, especially in old or handwritten records. Then there’s...
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The Florida Supreme Court Committee on Privacy and Court Records just released its complete report on recommendations for balancing the requirements of open records with the more recent demand for greater privacy of personal information. Read the full report or...
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