Ohio’s Attorney General has just released the 2005 Public Records Act and Open Meetings Act handbook, a 185 page pdf of the statutes and case law regarding the application of public records and open meetings law in...
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Searchsystems.net, a free online searchable database of public records links has updated the following page. Inmates Nebraska thru...
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Sneak in to the California State Archive in Sacramento to view the indexes of these records of births, deaths, marriages wills and probates. Here are just a few of the vital record resources you’ll find. ALAMEDA COUNTY – Marriage, 1854-1955...
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Here’s a list of the potential damage proposed by the Washington State...
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Subscribers to the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) are periodically sent emails with answers by their lawyers to questions about public records access. A recent query concerned government employee job applications. Are employment applications of current or past employees of...
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If a 411 directory of wireless telephone numbers is every produced it’ll have to be before Senate bill 1350 goes into effect. A provider of commercial mobile services, or any direct or indirect affiliate or agent of such a provider,...
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The Attorney General of Texas was forced to file a petition for writ of mandamus to compel a County Sheriff to release public records that the AG had previously ordered the Sheriff to turn over. The Sheriff not only failed...
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No matter your occupation, if you care about access to information and you can be in Washington D.C. this Thursday, July 14, you are needed to help the National Council of Investigation and Security Services lobby Congress in order to...
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Difficult challenge: must find acronym. Or more likely, you’ll be scratching your head to decipher an acronym. This handy site will help you with this deep seated problem. One of the search results returned for “CALI” was, “Chromophore-Assisted Laser Inactivation”....
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Professional private investigators have long been dismayed by the rampant sale of personal information on the Internet to anyone who will buy it. EPIC’s recent complaint to the Federal Trade Commission lays out the violations of the law implied in...
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