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22 Mar

Customers of telephone subscriber brokers face inquiry

Just in case I haven’t sufficiently played out this theme, let me remind you that the federal government and the state Attorneys General are actively pursuing anyone they can identify who obtains or sells telephone subscriber information. [Just search PI...
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Legislation, Litigation, Telco 1 Comment

19 Mar

Napa County California Recorder Index

The Napa County Recorder index is online and, as in most jurisdictions, returns limited information: document type and number. One curious addition would seem to violate two tenets of the Public Records Act: equal access and reasonable fees for direct...
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18 Mar

Free real property search by owner

This is more of an Internet research tip than a pointer to a specific site. Many of the County Assessor website’s real property searches don’t return property owner names or enable a search by property owner. The Recorder sites are...
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California, Research Methods, States 2 Comments

18 Mar

Find a government website by keyword

I’ve been exploring the newly configured search portal, Firstgov.gov, a government operated site that searches state and federal websites. Your keyword searches can be restricted to a specific url or a single state. I was looking for different information databases...
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17 Mar

Wisconsin Recorder filings ban use of social security numbers

Wisconsin’s governor signed into law Assembly Bill 536, Prohibiting a register of deeds from recording certain instruments that contain more than a partial social security number and providing a penalty, which will make a filer of a recorded document subject...
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17 Mar

Wisconsin legislators itching to relieve sting of criminal history

Wisconsin has been recognized among a small collection of states that have their state court criminal indexes linked and online. You know, an election year brings out a particular kind of generosity in our elected rulers. A measure that would...
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17 Mar

FCC releases telephone provider directory

A newly updated Telecommunications Provider Locator has been compiled by the FCC. The directory lists over 5,000 companies and can be searched at the site or downloaded. It includes company names, addresses, types of services offered, whether they’re still active,...
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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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California, Personal Data, States 1 Comment

15 Mar

Alabama opens court files

The Alabama Supreme Court has ordered a circuit court to cease the expunging criminal cases and to open files formerly removed from public view. AP covers the story via The First Amendment...
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15 Mar

Florida legislation will alter court files

Florida Senate bill 2366, An act relating to public records, will remove social security numbers from court filed judgments, replacing them with the person’s date of birth. Removes the social security number of each person against whom a final judgment...
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