The Los Angeles County Assessor has a very friendly real property search retrieval system. Look up a parcel by street address (city name is not required), get a property description and street map showing the location, and then set a...
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Law Technology News has published my recent article on database services and search caveats, Cut to the Chase. (Free registration required.) I hesitate to say this but if you can’t get it online send me an email request. Even though...
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Wisconsin’s director of the state courts has assembled a committee to review their policies related to the posting of court index data at the court website. Wisconsin is one of the few states (Washington, I believe, being the other one)...
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SearchSystems Free Public Records Directory: Still the best and most comprehensive set of direct links to search pages of government public records. The only site of its type with a searchable database. It just instituted an annoying delay page between...
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Two useful trends for investigators to know emerged from a study by Easily.co.uk of Internet searching habits. Furthermore the different usage of the Web compared to women was evident in a man’s choice of what information to display on web...
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Too much intrusion of junk mail of the nasty kind has lead Michigan to get more aggressive in blocking unwanted emails. Michigan and Utah have until Friday to create and operate registries of e-mail addresses similar to “do-not-call” lists. Businesses...
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Kids do the darndest things. Such as talking about their personal lives, in detail, in blog...
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Idaho is now requiring personal identification in order to view public records. Ostensibly, this is to deter….what? Misuse of the information? In California, government agencies sometimes hold a driver license in exchange for microfiche but they don’t photocopy the identification....
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Link to each states’ legal resources online. This list is divided by state and categories: Legislative bills, Codes, Regulations, Attorney General Opinions, Newspapers and Law...
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The Iowa Gazette Online has an extensive series on the flaws in the State’s Sex Offender Registry. The addresses of nearly one in four high-risk sex offenders on the list police and the public use to track them in Iowa...
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