One of the most frequent questions we get when presenting our live Internet Investigative Research MCLE seminars regards "comprehensive criminal background searches." Seminar attendees are almost always surprised, and disappointed, when we explain that, despite all of the ads on the Internet suggesting the contrary, there is no such thing ...
Criminal Records
Online Access to Massachussetts Sex Offender Databases Delayed by Court Ruling
Massachusetts officials had planned to post a searchable database, and photos of more than 300 Level 3 sex offenders on the Internet on May 15, 2003. On May 29, 2003, Superior Court Judge Thomas Billings issued an injunction against such access. With the implementation of the new database, users ...
Online Database ChoicePoint Online Expands its National Criminal Records Database
ChoicePoint Online has announced that it has expanded the number of individual criminal records contained in its Criminal Records Database. The database now contains 63 million records from all 50 states. This represents a nearly three-fold increase in documents, according to the company. Documents originate from a variety of sources, ...
Rapsheets.com Offers Searchable Database of State & County Criminal Records
Update, June 1, 2007: Since its purchase by ChoicePoint, Rapsheets can now be found at http://www.knowx.com/rapsheets/ Rapsheets.com offers registered users access to criminal records on over 20 million individuals in 30 states (and selected counties/buroughs in Florida, New York, Tennessee and Texas). In just two years, the database has grown ...
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