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Everyone In the Cook County Criminal Court System Too Busy Pointing Fingers To Fix Its Antiquated Re
April 18, 2018 - from the carbon-paper?--seriously? dept When you write regularly about lawsuits, you learn very quickly that not all court systems are equal when it comes to allowing modern access to public filings and records. The country is a veritable panoply of an access spectrum, with some districts offering modern e-filing systems and websites to review documents, while other districts are far more antiquated and restrictive. That said, it's hard to imagine a county court system more backwards than that of Chicago's Cook County. Every workday, attorneys enter criminal courtrooms across Cook County, put away their smartphones and operate in a world that their grandparents would have recognized: accordion-style...
FCRA Class Action Lawsuits Will Continue to Target Employers Performing Background Checks
April 16, 2018 - by Thomas Ahern On May 16, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins that plaintiffs must prove “con...
D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information is Not a Computer Crime
April 15, 2018 - Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information: A district court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that using automated tools to...
Crime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Fare Much Better Than Untrained Humans
April 13, 2018 - The American criminal justice system couldn’t get much less fair. Across the country, some 1.5 million people are locked up in state and fede...
When modernization gets in the way
February 13, 2018 - I sent a researcher a request that I wanted help with. I thought it would be a good idea. ----Me: Hello, Steven Brownstein here....
Crim-checker IT System Update Fail Has Cost UK Taxpayer
February 06, 2018 - MPs have slammed the IT overhaul behind the UK government's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which is running three years late resu...
About NCIC
February 02, 2018 - About NCIC The Files: The NCIC database currently consists of 21 files. There are seven property files containing records of...
What Is Illinois 1410/710 Probation?
January 31, 2018 - The Illinois Cannabis Control Act and the Controlled Substances Act were enacted in 1971. They specify two special types of pr...
Clean Criminal Record Necessary To Work In Jordan, U
January 24, 2018 - by Nawal Sayed Migrant workers wishing to work in Jordan and the UAE must have clean criminal records from their country...
A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People
January 18, 2018 - In February 2013, Eric Loomis was found driving a car that had been used in a shooting. He was arrested, and pleaded guilty to eluding an officer....
Kane County, IL Added DOB's To Search Results
December 28, 2017 - Kane County's newly launched Odyssey Case Management System is helping the county's entire judicial process — from the start o...
Straightline International # 1 Supplier of Puerto Rico Criminal Records
December 26, 2017 - When it comes to Puerto Rico criminal record searches no one .. that's right.. No one knows better than Straightline International. San Jua...
Data Breach Protection and Information Security Will Be Critical Issues
December 22, 2017 - Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 7, 2017, nationwide credit reporting agency Equifax announced that a mass...
Uber fined $8.9M. What's \Wrong With Them?
December 08, 2017 - Uber fined $8.9M in Colorado for bad background checks Nearly 60 drivers had either criminal or motor vehicle offenses, according to...
Employment Screening Resources (ESR) Creates Infographic For California Ban the Box Law
December 07, 2017 - by Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) has created a California Ban the Box Law Infographic to help emplo...
Considerations for Employers as Medical Marijuana Approaches
November 28, 2017 - by Joseph A. McNelis III Gov. Tom Wolf signed the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act in April 2016. What...
Straightline International Country Price for Criminal Records
November 21, 2017 - Straightline International Country Price www.straightlineinternational,com/contact-us Canada 12 Mexico 36 Mexico City 11.99 American Samoa 32...
5 Questions with AmericanChecked CEO Julie Hakman
November 20, 2017 - by Adam Daigle Julie Hakman is president and CEO of AmericanChecked. The Native American-owned business, which specializes in pre-em...
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