TY  - JOUR
ID  - pittir5656
UR  - http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/
A1  - Pike, George H.
Y1  - 2008/08/11/
N2  - It recently has become much easier to find out whether your daughter?s boyfriend or your new neighbor has a criminal record. CriminalSearches.com (www.criminalsearches.com), a new advertiser supported service from PeopleFinders.com, now provides free access to criminal records from all 50 states and 3,500 counties across the search. Criminal records, which can include arrest records, court filings, ?rapsheets?, inmate records, and similar information, are all public records. Many of these records have been available electronically for a number of years. However, with limited exceptions, these records have generally been only available through secure databases. The availability of public records on the Internet has been and continues to raise privacy and liability concerns, and this latest development is no exception.
PB  - Learned Information, Inc., Medford, NJ
JF  - Information Today NewsBreaks & the Weekly News Digest
KW  - criminal
KW  -  records
KW  -  public
KW  -  records
KW  -  free
KW  -  access
KW  -  Internet
KW  -  access
KW  -  non-secure
KW  -  databases
KW  -  privacy
KW  -  rights
KW  -  privacy
KW  -  concerns
KW  -  liability
KW  -  reliability
KW  -  accuracy
KW  -  misinterpretation
SN  - 8755-6286
TI  - CriminalSearches.com Offers Free Access to Criminal Records
AV  - public
ER  -