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LA County Redacted Identifiers from Online Docket
There's a lot of talk about LA County redacting identifiers from court records.
We only need to go back a liitle bit in time to.... the early days of pre employment screening.. for example... one of the world's largest courts,Cook County, Illinois, had public access terminals where you could at the court house look up names for matches.
That's as far as the dockets went. No DOBS. NOTHING. Only a name and a case number. If you had a match you would have to order the file or files and you came back the 2nd day (their rules) to look through the files you ordered for identifiers.
It was so draconian that the court only allowed to order for viewing (my memory fades on this) 15 files per name per day. A common name could have more than 125+ files. You do the math. It would take a while. Yet, we did it. We did the work. DAC. Stirling, Choice Point, USIS, so many of us - we all did it.
So don't be silent about this. Write the courts. Call your Association. Support their efforts.
Yes, of course, we will adapt and survive regardless of the situation. But it doesn't have to always be like this. Perhaps from this something better might even arise.
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