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4 Aug

Sell Internet research services to your clients

Facebook, MySpace, Linked In and even Yahoo! Groups are part of the booming social networking sites on the Internet that are a hot source of untapped background material. You probably check public records and personal information databases for background screening...
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4 Aug

This week in public records – Texas – Arizona

Public reaction to inmate data posted by a Texas county has lead the agency to remove it. Less than three weeks after information about Tarrant County Jail inmates became available online, county officials agreed Tuesday to cut back on the...
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1 Aug

Local search makes it to crime mapping

The National Institute of Justice maintains a frequently updated list of links to cities and counties nationwide that have online crime mapping. Some sites, such as the one operated by Oakland, California, are searchable by date, zip code, police beat...
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30 Jul

This week in public records – Pennsylvania – North Dakota – Arizona

Pennsylvania district judges were upbraided by the administrator for the state courts for redacting court files without any legal authority. The North Dakota Attorney General ruled against a county Sheriff for rejecting a public records request without citing any legal...
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28 Jul

MySpace wins the Web site popularity contest

MySpace, the social networking site, has been recognized as the most frequently accessed Web site, more popular than Google or Yahoo. That gives you some idea how important social networking sites are for background research. Apparently employers are using these...
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24 Jul

Free real property valuations integrated with census data

The Yahoo! Real Estate search tool locates addresses, streets or areas by zip code, providing integrated results with a map, real property valuations and census data. While the estimated property values and comparables may not be a sufficiently reliable figure...
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23 Jul

Legislative research reports: shortcuts to topical summaries of state laws

State legislative research offices answer legislators’ questions and provide bill analysis, generating topical reports. These reports can include summaries of state laws that otherwise would take a researcher hours to compile. In June 2006, the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research...
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18 Jul

California Supreme Court slams out of state telephone recordings

The California Supreme Court has sided with plaintiffs in their complaint against a bank that recorded telephone conversations that originated in Georgia but terminated in California. Georgia allows one-party consent to audio recording of telephone calls but California requires the...
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18 Jul

ChoicePoint ever shifting also delivers some free online tools

There are many tasks that computers can do better than the mere shoe leather on the road. Today’s New York Times reports on research suggesting that computers make more accurate choices in decision making than company managers or human intuition....
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17 Jul

Financial background investigations

The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA), a “free national search site to reunite you with your unclaimed property maintained by the state officials who are safeguarding it” links to state, federal, private and Canadian agencies to which personal...
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