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30 Jul

Insurance companies, fraud and consumer resources

The International Association of Insurance Fraud Agencies links to state government insurance agencies, insurance fraud associations and international organizations. In the U.S., the same government agency can be responsible for investigating individuals who defraud insurance companies as well as dishonest...
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Databases, Insurance, International, Maryland, Public Records, States 1 Comment

29 Jul

Public records: Missouri – Tennessee – New York – North Carolina

Missouri consumer complaints; Tennessee Sexual Offender Registry; New York removes Social Security numbers; North Carolina adoption confidential intermediary. The Missouri Attorney General has unveiled a database of filed consumer complaints that can be searched by company name or partial name.The...
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24 Jul

Yuba County Sheriff puts sex offender mapping and email notification online

The Yuba County, California Sheriff has added a Sex Offender Registry which allows a search by address, name – or partial first or last name – returning a list of all registered Yuba County sex offenders. Then get an email...
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24 Jul

This week in public records: Pennsylvania – Massachusetts – Arkansas

A law firm that accessed and viewed archived Web pages of an adversary through Archive.org did not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act , even though those Web pages were not supposed to...
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18 Jul

California Divorce Index, 1966-1984 Now Online

The limited statewide California Divorce Index, produced by the Department of Vital Records for a mere 18 years, has been added to the Ancestry.com product line. Divorces that occurred from 1966 to 1984 are searchable by name or partial name,...
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11 Jul

Criminal background screening methods challenged

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is pressing the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into employer compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) restrictions on employment background checks of criminal records. The CDT, Teamsters Union and...
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11 Jul

Database of the day: Mining the Madam’s records for telephone numbers

If you conduct reputation research on the politically connected consider downloading the telephone records of the D.C. escort business operated by Deborah Jeane Palfrey. This Web site has 40% of the records in a searchable database, with more to be...
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7 Jul

Sacramento County, California voter registration

The Sacramento County, California, Voter Registration and Elections site has a “Lookup Polling Place” feature that enables you to confirm that someone is registered to vote at a particular address. The search requires you to input street number, zip code...
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7 Jul

New sources, More activity on state employee salaries

Salaries of Delaware state employees who are paid with non public funds are not public records, according to an opinion issued this year by the Delaware Attorney General. Delaware State University solicited the opinion in response to a Freedom of...
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4 Jul

Database of the day: Funeral homes and directors disciplinary actions

Search the online records of disciplinary actions from 2000 to 2007 for funeral homes and funeral practitioners at the Maine Board of Funeral Service. Use this advanced search query at the Google search engine. In this example, I’ve searched the...
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