The National Center for State Courts has released Future Trends in State Courts 2005, a 147 page document that anyone who interacts with a state court will want to read. Forecasts are floated on the volatile issue of access to...
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The cover of identity theft and the proliferation of rogue Internet vendors cavalierly selling personal information, including motor vehicle and driver license records, has prompted the Minnesota Attorney General to request that the Department of Public Safety cease its sale...
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Criminal trials must be open to the public “where the child is accused of conduct which, if committed by an adult, would be considered a Class A or B felony”, according to a recent ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court....
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One of my faithful tipsters, who sends me her Internet finds (probably even more frequently than she reads mine) recommends this state by state listing of Workers’ Compensation government sites. The directory includes links to each states various regulatory and...
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The Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct will now add dismissed complaints and minor sanctions against judges to their online site after March 2006. Serious sanctions were considered a public record prior to the new guidelines issued by the Arizona Supreme...
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New Hampshire news organizations were successful in their challenge to a 2004 state law that would have made financial information in divorce files confidential. The state Supreme Court overturned a lower court that placed the primacy of individual privacy above...
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The Maine Attorney General found that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)violated the state’s public records act in refusing to release documents from meetings with the Rumford Paper Company. The agency entered into an agreement with Rumford in which the...
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In my daily tour of the Internet I’ve been noticing a consolidation of public records search sites, which seem to be getting gobbled up by the database aggregator Intelius. This company’s primary business targets the consumer who makes the infrequent...
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, responding to the recommendation of a state task force, has created a Meth Offender Registry Database. Search by name or by all offenders within a county. Results return the name, offense and date of conviction....
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The various free news providers that draw from many original sources –Google News or Yahoo! News– enable searches by keywords appearing at a specific url, and by keywords in news within a geographical region. The unique advantage offered by these...
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