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10 Dec

California Public Salaries

California This is a directory of links to state, county and municipal government salary and employee name databases. These searchable databases of government salaries, pay, overtime and compensation of government workers are compiled by news organizations, consumer watchdog organizations, open...
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A taste of state legislation affecting private investigators

The abundance of state legislation restricting access to public records is depressing for open government advocates. But the head in the sand approach won’t preserve access, so here are some of the Bills under consideration by state legislatures. New Hampshire...
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21 Mar

California UCC filings Web site shut down

A few weeks ago I wrote that the California State Controller ordered the removal of social security numbers from state tax liens. Now, Debra Bowen, the new California Secretary of State, has shut down the online UCC filings database in...
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7 Sep

Internal HP food toss stirs pretexting and phone records pot

The news is awash with the corporate in-fighting at Hewlett-Packard, raised to the level of mass appeal because the HP Board apparently initiated an investigation in which Directors’ telephone subscriber records were obtained by pretexting the telephone company. The Daily...
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1 Sep

This week in public records – California – Washington – Mississippi

The California legislation, SB1666, hard fought by CALI, PICA and a dozen (only!) other organizations, slunk to defeat when the legislative session closed Thursday night, after the bill was moved to inactive status by one of the sponsors. SB1666 would...
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2 Jul

So goes the country: outlawing investigative deception in California

The significant, far-reaching SB 1666, Personal Information: Obtaining Information, California legislation sponsored by Sen. Bowen, aims to make pretexting and subterfuge illegal, eliminating a research tool that can protect the privacy of the very people the bill claims to champion....
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4 Apr

California phone pretexting legislation advances

As I surmised, California SB 1666 has sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on its way to the full Senate. Reported in California...
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16 Mar

California AG and legislature advance on pretexters

If the California politicos have their way, all personal information gathering without the individual’s permission, drawn from business sources by deception, will be a violation of civil law. The California Legislature has just assigned SB 1666, obfuscatory in its title:An...
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