I’m sniffing around for a trend. Will those who are found guilty of crimes be able to seal their records? Well, perhaps Illinois is leading the way. A new law goes into effect in June that will do just this....
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I hope those private investigators who are planning on attending the State of California’s ID Theft Summit, Tuesday, March 1, will talk some sense with the attendees who have spoken negatively about private investigators. I’m thinking particularly of Mari Frank....
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All 50 states have business related public records online, to varying degrees. Kathy Biehl at LLRX provides an updated summary of the source and types of records the county and state governments make available. She includes links organized by state....
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Health inspection reports are a public record but this Spring San Francisco County will post them online. Contra Costa County is also considering a similar move, primarily to pressure restaurants to improve their sanitary conditions. There’s demonstrable evidence to support...
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There’s an increasing trend toward offering public records indexes and documents, for free on the internet. Paradoxically, there’s a parallel thrust to close or curtail access to some or all of the content in court, real property, voter registration, motor...
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The Government Accountability Office report entitled, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS – Governments Could Do More to Reduce Display in Public Records and on Identity Cards, was presented to Subcommittee on Social Security, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, in...
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The Federal government database of currently available contracts and the archive of documents related to contracting with the government are...
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The Utah Judicial Council is recommending that electronic court records continue to be stripped of personal identifiers such as names and address. A a local newspaper sees the recommendations as being more severe. Read the article. In reading the report,...
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I know this comes as a shock. So hold on to your hairpiece. A different set of rules apply to the rich and powerful than to the majority population. And it’s not good. A more searing lens should be spotted...
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Have you ever had a clerk at a public agency tell you that they could read you the information on their computer screen but they couldn’t print it? I don’t mean that the agency didn’t have the capability of printing...
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