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22 Apr

New York Chills Employment Investigations

The phrase “personal information” and “identity theft” have become so intertwined that legislatures have rushed to implement laws which have detrimental outcomes for investigations. Recently codified New York law would subject employers to a $500 penalty for disclosing “personal identifying...
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Legislation, New York, Personal Data, States employment, Legislation, New York, personal information 1 Comment

22 Mar

Mexico Court Record Index Online

Wouldn’t it be convenient and a boon to cross-border investigations to be able to search an online index of Mexico court records? An Internet search for a source for these directs you to Westlaw, a collection of legal research and...
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Criminal, International, Mexico, Public Records civil, court records, Criminal, Mexico, searchsystems 4 Comments

19 Mar

Connecticut Civil Union Index Online

In Connecticut, a civil union license is issued by the registrar of vital statistics for the town in which the ceremony takes place or where the partners live, and recorded with the town clerk. Some town clerks have begun adding...
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17 Mar

Sunshine Week: Is Government Transparency Possible Without Newspapers?

The shuttering of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer print version during Sunshine Week is a sad reminder of the trend in big city papers. Increasingly, they can’t afford to operate in paper form, and maybe won’t be able to in online-only versions...
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15 Mar

Sunshine Week 2009 – State Reports

California lags, but Texas shines at the top of the rating of online access to government records — essential to a democratic system of governance and a core tool of the private investigator. Sunshine Week 2009 launched today with the...
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14 Mar

Sunshine Week 2009 Survey of State Government Information

The newspapers are getting a running start on Sunshine Week –the Sunday kickoff to a week focused on efforts by the media and government to cast a light on government operations– reporting the good and the bad on the state...
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10 Mar

Keeping Up With Crime

Surprisingly, I wrote about crime mapping only once in 2008. That was about the efforts to track and map crime incidents at universities and included some tips for finding online crime map sites. CrimeReports, which I wrote about in 2007,...
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12 Feb

Facebook, Criminal Records and People Finders

A new feature has been introduced at the most popular social networking site, Facebook — which it’s calling Truescoop –, a name search that identifies people by their state of residence and date of birth and, for some, criminal record...
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Criminal, Databases, Personal Data, Public Records 3 Comments

12 Feb

Government Spending Transparency Databases

The governor of Alabama signed an executive order that creates an online database of all state government spending and legislators’ relationships with lobbyists. This will go online later this year, but many other states have already made available government spending,...
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Alabama, Colorado, Databases, Georgia, Government, Illinois, Kentucky, Public Records, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, States 1 Comment

6 Feb

This week in public records: California

A California appellate court has settled a public records case — the right of access to a Santa Clara County GIS parcel mapping database — in favor of the plaintiffs, the California First Amendment Coalition. The county alternately demanded an...
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