Public Record Research System

Learn first hand how to use "Insider Information" for searching for public records at thousands of government public record agencies and web pages. This resource provides the tips and practical knwoledge to guide you to the right source and help you become an ultra-efficient searcher. Field Guide to Court Record Databases, How to Evaluate Public Record Vendors, How to Evaluate Record Search Sites, Why and When All Criminal Records are Not Created Equal, Expanded Coverage of Government Watch Lists, Sanction Lists, and Enforcement Actions, Know the Location Anomalies that Affect Searching Liens and Assets. Book jacket.

A practical reference for accurate examination of approximately 20,000 federal, state, county, and in some cases city and town government agencies that hold public record information useful for background searching and investigation, pre-employment verification and tenant background checking, legal research, and locating people and assets. The public record primer tells how to search and where categories of records can be found. The individual state chapters give agency facts (office hours, time zone, web sites), record access (methods of access, restrictions, indexing, search requirements and hints), fees and methods of payment, and miscellaneous information such as how to purchase databases.

For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person’s interactions with just about everyone else. The Eternal Criminal Record makes transparent a pervasive system of police databases and identity screening that has become a routine feature of American life. The United States is unique in making criminal information easy to obtain by employers, landlords, neighbors, even cyberstalkers. Its nationally integrated rap-sheet system is second to none as an effective law enforcement tool, but it has also facilitated the transfer of ever more sensitive information into the public domain. While there are good reasons for a person’s criminal past to be public knowledge, records of arrests that fail to result in convictions are of questionable benefit. Simply by placing someone under arrest, a police officer has the power to tag a person with a legal history that effectively incriminates him or her for life. In James Jacobs’s view, law-abiding citizens have a right to know when individuals in their community or workplace represent a potential threat. But convicted persons have rights, too. Jacobs closely examines the problems created by erroneous record keeping, critiques the way the records of individuals who go years without a new conviction are expunged, and proposes strategies for eliminating discrimination based on criminal history, such as certifying the records of those who have demonstrated their rehabilitation.

This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

This book reviews and explains the principal public records statutes applicable to records held by North Carolina local governments and examines the public's right of access to those records. It expands the coverage of the first edition and its cumulative supplement and also includes developments in the law since 2004. Although the book focuses on records held by local governments, state government officials also will find it useful.

Shares strategies for using the Internet to conduct research and access online resources, in a guide that provides the public records available for each state, along with advice on evaluating online data for reliability.

"This book is THE MASTER GUIDE to the world of on-line public records."--Sue Rugge, Principal - The Information Professionals Institute. The first & only publication to profile in one book all the major elements of the public record search industry in the U.S. Extensive profiles & indices lead the reader to: The latest in on-line systems & vendors; The hottest CD-ROM products containing public record data; The leading national & regional search firms & gateways; Private, proprietary databases available for searching; Where to go for background screening of individuals & companies. In addition, the publication includes a 32 page reference guide to privacy & public record retrieval. This is the latest title in the Public Record Research Library Series(TM) (PRRL), published by BRB Publications. The PRRL is the only series of books & disks totally dedicated to the understanding of public records for public & law libraries, human resource professionals, genealogists, professional screening or search firms, paralegals, government agencies, private investigators, & investigative reporters. To order contact: BRB Publications, Inc., 4653 S. Lakeshore Drive, #3, Tempe, AZ 85282. Phone: (602) 838-8909 or (800) 929-3811.

Shares strategies for using the Internet to conduct research and access online resources, in a guide that provides the public records available for each state, along with advice on evaluating online data for reliability.

This is the master guide to the world of online public records.