The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), a government body I haven’t given much thought to, has a quick reference to states that have adopted various recommendations on changes to their laws to create uniformity across all...
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A state-by-state chart showing each states’ electronic surveillance laws, with links to the code sections, addresses both wiretapping and eavesdropping regulations, can be found at the National Conference of State Legislatures website. [Mentioned at Librarians’ Internet Index.] In an earlier...
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I may just be imagining this, since I don’t often use the Sacramento County, California online criminal court index, but the details provided on criminal index search results seems to have expanded. And the site has announced that something (unspecified)...
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I’m a big fan of Steve Morse’s advanced Social Security Death Index, one of the many search tools that he’s crafted and made available. Morse has added two new tweaks to other databases that increase their functionality. One he calls...
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Thurston County, Washington is about to launch a website with a searchable index of court cases, with case document images that can be printed. This is a convenient development but have you thought about the fate of hard copy records...
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Criminal defense investigators working cases for those charged with a capital crime search out mitigating factors in the defendant’s life: mental illness, parental maltreatment or substance abuse. Add cigarette smoking to the list. The link between in utero smoke exposure...
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Finding documentation on a private business may take a little more digging than uncovering background on a publicly traded company. One of the resources you may have overlooked is the Small Business Administration database of companies to which they’ve made...
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In my posting, Criminal Record Site Surveys, I mentioned that juvenile sex offender registrants can be found at some state sex offender websites. States are also considering whether to allow juvenile felony criminal trials to be public, which would place...
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A frustration of some court online index sites is that they don’t enable case name searches, only case docket numbers. After the court runner goes to the courthouse, looks up the party name in the onsite computer (which each person...
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The Michigan legislature has expanded the requirements for residential care facilities to conduct criminal background checks on all employees with access to facility residents or their personal information. The legislation requires Michigan’s almost 5,000 residential care facilities to conduct criminal...
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