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Pennsylvania Sets Copy Fee Range For Public Records

Posted on December 10, 2008
The newly created Office of Open Records has mandated that as of January 1, 2009 Pennsylvania government entities must charge between $.10 and $.25 for copies of public record documents, except in the case of oversized documents. The Courts, the...

Electronically Accessed Missouri Motor Vehicle Records Now Less Than $.04 Each

Posted on December 09, 2008
Effective December 1, 2009, the fee for driving records accessed electronically was lowered from $1.25 to $.0382 per record. This fee decrease is the result of a huge legal mess that started with an agreement the Department of Revenue had...

North Dakota Adopts Privacy Protection Measures for Court Records

Posted on December 08, 2008
Amendments to North Dakota's Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Court, and Supreme Court Administrative Rules and Orders were adopted on December 3, 2008. On March 1, 2009, significant changes to electronic...

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Posted on December 03, 2008
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks and federally chartered branches and agencies of foreign banks that are not members of the...

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Wyoming Courts

Posted on November 24, 2008
Each county has a District Court of ?higher jurisdiction? and a Circuit Court of limited jurisdiction. Effective January 1, 2003 all Justice Courts became Circuit Courts and follow Circuit Court rules. Circuit Courts handle civil claims up to $7,000 and...

Airplane Registration Numbers

Posted on November 18, 2008
The International Civil Aviation Organization (www.icao.int) maintains aircraft registration standards for participating countries. Each aircraft (over a certain weight) must be registered with a national aviation registration mark and number. This registration is shown on the plane...

Kosciusko County, Indiana Recorders Office Going Online

Posted on November 14, 2008
Kosciusko County, Indiana announced it has a contract with Doxpop to provide county recorder public records online starting January 2009. Fees have not been anounced but there will be a $1 copy fee passed back the county recorder's office. The...

Canadian Criminal Court System

Posted on November 14, 2008
Canadian court records are public information. The court system in Canada is similar to the U.S. system in that there is a federal court system with a supreme court and there are provincial systems with upper and lower courts. An...

About Searching for Criminal Records

Posted on November 10, 2008
There are two primary approaches to searching direct sources of criminal records ? go to the courthouse or go to the state repository. There are pluses and minuses for each method. Most criminal record searches performed by the public at...

About New Jersey's Promise/Gavel System - Beware of Shortcomings

Posted on November 07, 2008
Originally developed for county prosecutors, the Promis/Gavel is an automated criminal case tracking system that provides the function of docketing, indexing, noticing, calendaring, statistical reporting, and case management reporting, etc. Promis/Gavel is interactive with the courts as well as with...

Alabama Vehicle Status Check

Posted on November 01, 2008
A new online service that we came across while doing research for the 2009 MVR Book is the Vehicle Information Check provided by Alabama Interactive, an affiliate providing a variety of online services for the state. The Check provides basic...

Nashville TN Circuit Court

Posted on October 31, 2008
CaseLink is an online tool that provides information pertaining to cases filed in Circuit Court, Probate Court, and General Sessions Court - Civil Division in Davidson County. Effective November 1, 2008, the monthly subscription fee is increased from $20 per...

South Carolina Vital Records

Posted on October 31, 2008
The SC Department of Health and Environmental Control recently announced that their walk-in customer service office for vital records area will temporarily close beginning November 3. The closure is due to construction. The building is expected to re-open in March...

Montana Secretary of State Records

Posted on October 30, 2008
Several changes went into effect on October 1, 2008 for the office of the Montana Secretary of State. The fee increased for copies and fax-back services for corporation and other business entity records, and for UCC filing records. The new...

Idaho Driver Services

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Driver Services walk-in counter at the Idaho Transportation Department Headquarters in Boise is closing. After December 31st, 2008, all business will only be conducted by fax, mail, and web. See www.itd.idaho.gov/dmv/driverservices/importantnotice...

Michigan?s Motor Vehicle Registration Status Inquiry

Posted on October 28, 2008
Michigan?s Motor Vehicle Registration Status Inquiry Michigan maintains a searchable web site that allows dealers and others to verify if a vehicle purchaser can be denied registration under Michigan's "Repeat Offender Law" (MCL 257.219). The Web site verifies if the...

Area Codes - North American Numbering Plan (NANPA)

Posted on October 27, 2008
NANPA is an integrated telephone numbering plan serving the United States, its territories, and 18 other North American countries; Canada, Bermuda, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat,...

Connecticut Public Record Research Tip

Posted on October 15, 2008
Local Searching in Connecticut In Connecticut there are 8 counties and 169 towns/cities with signficant public records. There is no county recording in Connecticut, all recording is at the town/city level. The recording officer is the Town/City Clerk...

U.S. Tax Court

Posted on October 08, 2008
The jurisdiction of the U.S. Tax Court includes the authority to hear tax disputes concerning notices of deficiency, notices of transferee liability, certain types of declaratory judgment, readjustment and adjustment of partnership items, review of the failure to abate interest,...

UCC Public Record Research Tip

Posted on October 07, 2008
A significant change in UCC filing took effect in July 2001. Prior to that date UCC documents were recorded either at a centralized state agency or at a local recording office. At the time there were over 4,200 locations in...

Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 29, 2008
Private Resources on Unions Big Labor.comBig Labor is sponsored by Union Communication Services Inc. Per their website ?Every U.S.-based union with a website ? national and local ? can be found on the Big Labor list in one of three...

Public Record Research Tip - Telephones

Posted on September 23, 2008
Free Directory Service for Cells Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this...

Massive Fee Increases Coming to AZ Courts

Posted on September 23, 2008
Per House Bill 2210 signed by the Governor in June, effective September 26, 2008, fees associated with filing and record searching will substantially increase for all superior and justice courts in the State of Arizona. For example, at justice courts...

Rhode Island Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 22, 2008
Rhode Island has five counties, but only four Superior/District Court Locations ? 2nd-Newport, 3rd-Kent, 4th-Washington, and 6th-Providence/Bristol Districts. Bristol and Providence counties are completely merged at the Providence location. Civil claims between $5000 and $10,000 may be filed in either...

Dispelling the Myths of Searching Public Records Online

Posted on September 17, 2008
There is no Free Lunch! Tempe, Arizona ? September 17, 2008 ?The scope of information that exists online about people and businesses is staggering. If one needs to search for a public record or to do a background check, one...

VA Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 16, 2008
In Virginia, fifteen independent cities share the Clerk of Circuit Court with the county - Bedford, Covington (Alleghany County), Emporia (Greenville County), Fairfax, Falls Church (Arlington or Fairfax County), Franklin (Southhampton County), Galax (Carroll County), Harrisonburg (Rockingham County), Lexington (Rockbridge...

AR Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 11, 2008
In Arkansas, there is no statewide access to county assessor data; however, all counties cooperate with at least one commercial vendor. Registration, login, and fees required to search assessor records for 41 counties at www.arcountydata.com. Access property data free for...

IN Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 08, 2008
54 Indiana Cities and Towns have the exact same names as Indiana CountiesMost common names of Indiana Cities and Towns include: there are 5 Mt Pleasants - in Cass, Delaware, Johnson, Martin, and Perry Counties there are 4 Buena Vistas...

IL Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 05, 2008
In Illinois, court fees are set by the Clerk of Courts Act (705 ILCS 105). The statute sets different pricing for court filings and services based on three county population tiers; under 500,000, between 500,000 and 3,000,000, and over 3,000,000....

CA Public Record Research Tip

Posted on September 03, 2008
When searching for public records at California trial courts, per statute there is no name search fee unless the search takes more than 10 minutes, in which case the fee is $15.00. Certification is $15.00 per document plus copy fee;...

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