public records

Public records are government documents open to public inspection.  It is a popular tag because private and official U.S. government web sites will search for records pertaining to a particular individual or entity (as in most other countries).

While not all public records are available online, official U.S. government sites normally provide free access to those that are.  Private sites usually charge for searching records but often use broader databases.

The type of information available in U.S. public records is wide-ranging. For businesses it  includes SEC filings, names of officers and directors, and annual reports. For individuals the information may contain the value of a person's home, a list of their political contributions,  criminal and civil court filings and death records.  Whether a record and the information in it is public is determined by the laws of the federal government or the state keeping the record.

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• How To Search Name By Mobile phone Number Without Paying An Investigator

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 457
  We all have the need at one point or another to trace somebody that we very much need to get in touch with. The reasons can contrast, it may be individual or a may be a serious business matter that needs to be solved. Before computers were an daily thing, attempting to locate someone was like finding a needle in a ...
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• WI: State Supreme Court hears teacher e-mail case

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 147
  Adam Wise reports: After more than two years of debate, the fate of an open records request involving Wisconsin Rapids teacher e-mail messages now rests with the state’s highest court. Seven State Supreme Court justices spent more than an hour Tuesday morning questioning an attorney representing the Wisconsin ...
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• How to Search by Social Security Number for the Living and the Dead

  
  Be Your Own Private Eye — Authority: 118
  When researching genealogy, every piece of information you discover is a new piece of the puzzle and a social security number is no different. However, knowing how to conduct a search by social security number is a different story altogether. Basically, a social security search is conducted based on whether the person ...
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• Resident sues village over records violations

  
  Your right to know — Authority: 116
  The long-troubled burg of Chauncey has lost public-records lawsuits before for failing to provide documents requested by residents. Now, a resident has filed another lawsuit against the Athens County village alleging it has violated public records laws. Jim Phillips of The Athens News has the details.
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• The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 422
  “The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0″Danielle Keats CitronUniversity of Maryland School of LawMaryland Legal Scholarship Network RPSUniversity of Maryland – School of LawGeorge Washington Law Review, Vol. 78, 2010University of Maryland Legal Studies Research, ...
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• Make Out Extra About Background Check

  
  Small Business Association — Authority: 139
  Background check is always necessary to check the description of any human being or any corporate body. Helpful services are offered by many corporations in order to find out the  background in addition to financial investigation about any one or business house. It is always advisable to check the back ...
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• How To Check Peoples Criminal Background To Find Criminal History of Someone

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 139
  You may want to know if someone has a criminal record. It may be when you are employing someone or hiring a tutor or a nanny for your child or a help for senior citizens. You have to be sure that the person has a clean record. You don’t want to hire people that you can trust or have people be around your children ...
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• How To Investigate A Previous Classmate Without Paying Big Bread

  
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  Each person at one time or another has the need to trace someone. It is possible that you may want to locate a lost love or you are looking for the occupant that skipped out without paying for reparation to your home. Before the age of the internet, the only way to find someone included hiring a professional spy or ...
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• Landmark Payout in Washington State for Public Records Law Violations

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) will pay $525,000 to three girls abused by their foster father for wrongfully withholding public records from them.  The payout stems from a lawsuit filed by three girls who endured years of abuse at the hands of their foster father, despite complaints ...
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• how to find free criminal search records

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 150
  In being diligent, a criminal records see is a normal conception of the process. In this highly digitized age, doing some identify of see should be such easier now that we have the correct profession to do it. However, no matter how such aggregation is stored in the web, nothing beatniks the manual impact of [...]
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• How To Search Name By Phone Number Without Paying An Researcher

  
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  by Marc Marseille We all have the need at one point or another to find somebody that we very much need to get in touch with. The intentions can differ, it may be individual or a may be a crucial business matter that needs to be solved. Before computers were an daily thing, attempting to locate someone was like ...
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• Township surrenders withheld review

  
  Your right to know — Authority: 116
  The Dispatch s Elizabeth Gibson contributes this report: After filing a public-records lawsuit against the township, Madison Township firefighters have obtained a first draft of their chiefs performance review, which rated him as "below requirements." Township officials have called the draft inaccurate and ...
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• Tens of thousands of military Social Security numbers published on Library of Congress Web site

  
  Depth Reporting — Authority: 103
  Until this week, you could find the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of current and former soldiers, sailors and airmen on the Web site of the Library of Congress. This included Social Security numbers for a former operational commander for Iraq, a former commander of U.S. Central Command, a former vice ...
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• An all-you-can-eat smörgåsbord of government data

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 495
  Back in the day when I was a young newspaper reporter, we never heard of your Internets and could only dream about the Googles. When we wanted campaign information, we spent days in some dank backroom at the supervisor of elections office, buried under a mountain of documents. And making copies at 10 cents a page ...
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• How To Investigate Name By Mobile phone Number Without Paying An Investigator

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 160
  Every now and then we will have the need to look up someones information. It is possible that you may have lost an old friend and the only ties you have to them is an old cell phone number. May you are just curious about annoying phone calls that you have been receiving. Either one of these scenarios may cause you to ...
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• Take the Steps to Protect Yourself-Find Divorce Records Online

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 457
  When two people get married, they take a vow to stand by one another “for better or worse.” Until recently, the “worse” was little more than an educated guess, but with the relatively new availability of divorce records online, people are getting an early glimpse of what they should expect. It’s ...
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• Where to find criminal records free to the public

  
  Articles — Authority: 144
  Before the Internet era, all free criminal public records could only be accessed manually. There wasn’t a nationwide database of criminal records in existence. Little tidbits of everything were stored in various databases by local communities, parishes, counties, or states. Therefore, retrieving criminal records ...
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• How to Find Public Marriage Records and Much More Online With Very Little Effort

  
  Be Your Own Private Eye — Authority: 118
  Everyone has that one person in the neighborhood that no one knows anything about. Everyone speculates on researching private and public marriage records. They gossip about possible criminal records. They have that neighbor doing everything from being a poor ole’ shut-in to an insane axe murder with fifty women ...
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• Halloween Census Whacking

  
  GeneaBlogie — Authority: 414
  With the crisis of my father’s recent illness and the minor drama of my own, I feel like I’ve been way out of touch the last two weeks.  It’s time get back into the flow of things.   I thought  little census whacking for Halloween would ease my way back into writing.  So I went hunting for Vampires, Zombies, ...
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• Why You Should Always Find Marriage Records of Someone You Date

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 457
  When two people get married, there should be a reasonable expectation of trust, built over years of familiarity. The reason to find marriage records is simple, you want the truth. In the current dating atmosphere, some of the natural mechanisms for confidence building in a relationship have evaporated. A lot of ...
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