The Intelligence Report and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires the Attorney General to recommend ways of standardizing criminal record information. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse submitted its comments to the AG and posted it at their website. They cogently point...
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South Carolina index of deaths from 1915-1949 is searchable at this genealogy site, or you can snag the plugin at the state website and perform the search there. The genealogy site only provides a limited amount of free information. If...
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San Bernardino County seems to have dedicated itself to the policy of restricting the dissemination of public records to the full extent allowable by law. The 1998 change to the California Public Records Act, specifying the government employees whose addresses...
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When you’re doing asset research have you considered checking the horse ownership databases? This may only be a consideration if your subject is in a rural area and you have reason to think that he or she owns a purebred...
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A list of funeral homes organized by state, then city, returns funeral home name, address and telephone...
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An Illinois statewide index of deaths from 1916-1950 is available at the website of the Secretary of...
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On the theme of parsing the private from the public in records held by a government agency, a federal district judge determined that appointment calendars at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were not public records. The basis of the decision...
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Chandler, Arizona has been added to the short list of police agencies that sell accident reports online. They distribute the reports through a private company, which lists the other municipalities, all in the Midwest or eastern...
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I just love these old city directories. They listed a person’s name and their work title, reminding us of the days when people stayed in one job their whole lives, or had a job! Only a small sampling of geographical...
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If you’re in the Williamsburg, Virginia area October 20th and 21st, 2005 attend the Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records, at William and Mary Law...
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