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Social Media Search Leads to Lawsuit
January 20, 2025 - On September 11, 2024, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that there is no publication to a third party — and therefore no Article III standing under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) — where the recipient of a consumer report did not read, understand, or otherwise consider allegedly inaccurate information appearing in the report. In Fernandez v. RentGrow, Inc., No. 22-1619, 2024 WL 4138658 (4th Cir. Sept. 11, 2024), Marco Fernandez alleged that his consumer report, provided to a prospective landlord by RentGrow, Inc. (“RentGrow”), contained inaccurate information indicating a “possible match” to a name on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Cont...
Problems Continue For Palm Beach, FL Court Computer System
December 14, 2024 - The computer problems plaguing the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts continue Saturday, although there are some signs that a fix may be near. What...
A Host of Procedural Errors Lands Sterling in Hot Water
December 12, 2024 - Sterling Infosystems, a consumer reporting agency that sells background checks, falsely reported to a prospective employer that a job candid...
CRA'S Get Sued For Screening Out Candidates by Criminal Record
August 28, 2024 - Third-party employee screening companies are finding themselves more in the litigation fray in California for blocking job seekers with criminal re...
New Michigan Criminal Record Lookup Platform Available to the Public
August 08, 2024 - Access to Michigan public records, specifically criminal records, is useful tool for looking up someone's criminal past. MichiganCriminalRecord...
NYC Starts Enforcing Restrictions On AI In Hiring
July 27, 2024 - New York City’s law requiring employers to audit and notify candidates about the use of automated employment decision tools will be enforced...
Nine States Change Civil Jurisdiction Thresholds
June 14, 2024 - When it comes to civil lawsuits, most states use two levels of court: a limited jurisdiction court that manages lower amounts in controversy and a...
Errors Discovered in New Bexar County Criminal Records Database
June 09, 2024 - In the first days after its launch, a new publicly searchable criminal records database accidentally showed records that were incorrect or in the p...
Database Collection of Death Information Not Public Record
April 22, 2024 - Requests for Individual Records Not Affected A statewide database of dead Ohioans with the names and addresses associated with the causes of de...
Military Court Records Might Go Public
April 21, 2024 - A federal judge ruled in March that ProPublica’s lawsuit against the secretary of defense should move forward, as the news organization seeks...
West Virginia Magistrate Court Records Now Online
April 09, 2024 - For the first time, Magistrate Court information is now available online in West Virginia. Chief Justice Tim Armstead made the annou...
USA Agency Lays Down the Law on Flawed Background Checks
April 01, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance to consumer reporting companies to address inaccurate background check report...
LA County Redacted Identifiers from Online Docket
March 01, 2024 - 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.... th...
Federal judge rules Virginia’s restricted access to court records violates First Amendment
January 19, 2022 - A district court judge in Virginia on Friday found Virginia’s online civil court system violated First Amendment rights of the press an...
BREAKING NEWS - Missouri governor Parson vetoes bill that would have limited access to public record
July 10, 2021 - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday vetoed a wide-ranging bill that would have limited public access to certain government records. ...
Michigan Supreme Court Ruling On Court Records Could Mean Doom To Background Checks
July 09, 2021 - Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders who are looking for work could be facing new challenges in their job hunt. Set to start in Jul...
Maine Newspapers Challenge Rule Concealing Electronic Court Records
February 16, 2021 - A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black an...
Lawsuit filed against The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) for inaccurate criminal record
February 03, 2021 - The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has asked a judge in Franklin County to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the cities of Dayton and Columbu...
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