Groups want details on license plate readersSacramento BeeA Sheriff's Department PowerPoint presentation, which was provided in response to the public records request, seems to indicate that individuals searching their database for a specific license plate can also link over and search the servers of more …
View full post on public records search – Google News
State budget proposal would charge 'search fee' for court documentsSacramento BeeDecades of providing free access to court public records would end under Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed state budget. Courts would be authorized to charge a $10 "search fee" for clerks to retrieve files for journalists, businesses and members of the …
View full post on public [...]
10News
Proposal would charge $10 to search court recordsSacramento BeeIn a move that is raising concern about limiting access to public documents, California courts could charge $10 for each record search under a proposal included in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget. The governor included the search fee as one of the ways the …California courts to charge [...]
Bill would make public records easier to searchSacramento BeeCalifornia could become the first state in the nation to require that public agencies provide their records in searchable formats, such as Excel or Word. A bill making its way through the Legislature would establish an open data standard, requiring …and more »
View full post on public records [...]
State proposes new public records regulationsSacramento BeeJUNEAU, Alaska — The state has proposed new regulations pertaining to public interest fee waivers or reduction in costs for public records. The proposal would allow for a fee waiver or reduction if the requestor establishes, and an agency finds, the …
View full post on public records search – [...]
Findmypast.ie Announces 1.2 Million Irish Petty Session Records Now Searchable …Sacramento BeeThe original Petty Sessions records are held at the National Archives of Ireland were scanned by Family Search and have now been transcribed and made fully searchable by findmypast.ie. They cover all types of cases, from allowing trespass of cattle to …and more »
View full [...]
Sacramento Redistricting Plan Spurs SuitCourthouse News ServiceEye on Sacramento says the city refused its August 2011 request for several records under the "deliberative process exemption" of the California Public Records Act. It is joined by the First Amendment Coalition in the lawsuit.
View full post on public records search – Google News
Government Technology
Sacramento, Calif.'s Online Records Span the Distant PastGovernment TechnologyThe system delivers search returns in an average of 40 seconds per query. IT staff are continually making more documents accessible to the public. Klock-Johnson said that she either finds something during a public records request that needs to be …
View full post on public records [...]
Is your phone snitching?Sacramento News & ReviewLye wrote an eight-page information request invoking California's Public Records Act, which asks about law enforcement's use of video surveillance, facial-recognition technology and license-plate detectors. But the ACLU's primary concern is that …
View full post on public records search – Google News
Los Angeles Times
Witnesses describe fatal police fight with CA manSacramento BeeThe video was obtained through a public records request by the blog Friends for Fullerton's Future. Officers confronted Thomas on July 5 while investigating reports of a man burglarizing cars near a bus depot. Police say he became violent as two …Witnesses describe fatal police [...]
Search Public Arrest Records |
