%A George H. Pike
%J Information Today NewsBreaks & the Weekly News Digest
%T CriminalSearches.com Offers Free Access to Criminal Records
%X 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.
%D 2008
%K criminal, records, public, records, free, access, Internet, access, non-secure, databases, privacy, rights, privacy, concerns, liability, reliability, accuracy, misinterpretation
%I Learned Information, Inc., Medford, NJ
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