Sex Offender – Megan’s Law Database report: The San Francisco Examiner revisits the new online California sex offender registry, noting, in this two-part report, that the gradations of criminal offense are absent, unlike in the prior database. Presumably, the Sheriff...
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~ Are You Searching Blogs? ~ The Pew Internet Project just released a short summary study of blogs, and the people who blog them. Factoids: 8 million people are blogging or have a personal diary on the web; 12 percent...
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~ Household Products Databases ~ U.S. National Library of Medicine operates this FREE online database on the hazards of consumer products. Links to all the online sources for Materials Safety Data Sheets (chemical, physical and toxic properties, and safety and...
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~ Criminal Statistics ~ Find the crime where they do the time, and where they don’t… Prosecutors’ offices, searchable by state and city, returns data on numbers of cases handled and case results. Felony Sentences in the U.S., 2002. Presented...
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~ Meta Job Databank Search Engine ~ Indeed.com is a meta search engine, in the beta phase, that boasts an inventory of 1.7 million job postings, in the past 30 days. Wanna identify an employer seeking hires, and in which...
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Who’s A Rat claims to be the largest online database of police informants. But then, what’s the competition? The entries, based on submissions, are drawn from public records. Photographs are also posted at this FREE...
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We’re dissed from here to there and often have to correct the record. Usually we’re getting hammered by ever more restrictive State and Federal laws, NOT the attorneys who depend on our expertise! The unnamed blogger at an oft sited...
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I admit, this is a bit outside the circle of our daily work, but sometime you may need to know the researchers who are contributing to the human genome knowledge base. Through this search tool you can identify the names...
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The British Columbia, Canada, Court Services Online provides “Provincial and Supreme Court civil files from 1989 onwards for most court locations across the province.” The index search is $6 per name. B.C. Provincial Judgments index is a FREE search, spanning...
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The Center for Public Integrity, Harmful Error project details the state of prosecutorial misconduct through scholarly analysis and case studies. They’ve compiled a FREE national searchable database, drawn from appellate court decisions, in which the defense alleged prosecutorial misconduct. A...
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