Public Records

One of many types of public records are court records. In vast array of cases courthouses on county, state and federal level, as well as certain government agencies offer citizens convenience of accessing these files or their summaries through either the respective jurisdiction’s website, through a given court’s website, or through website of other repository. In fact, these are public records that are regulated best of all and would raise the smallest number of questions as for the due procedure applicable and for their accessibility.

Other categories of most sought after, though not the largest as for the number of public records entries contained, may be presented in the form of the suggested list, which, as a categorization pattern, is rather general and relative, and should by no means be regarded as sort of officially accepted or recommended as a model for any purpose other than a reference for this article. And, of course, it doesn’t claim to be all-inclusive:

• Assessor and property tax records
• Professional and business licenses
• Bar Associations
• Contractor licenses
• Credit reporting
• Unclaimed money
• Death index
• Genealogy
• Industries specific employee databases
• Foreclosures and tax lien sales
• Land records and deeds
• Laws and Codes
• GIS and mapping
• Government jobs and federal employment listings
• Jail, prison, detention and inmate records
• Police
• Sex offender registries
• UCC filings
• Vital statistics, census
• Voter and elections information
• Warrants
• Various public and not for profit organizations, initiatives, and projects documentation

In fact, any piece of paperwork, existing either on a sheet of paper or in a form of digital file, may under certain circumstances become classified as a public record, i. e. open for the scrutiny of any member of community, often without exemption. For example, in Florida, the state’s Public Records Law provides that every email sent to public organization, office or institution, like governor’s or mayor’s office, court, or university that gets funded from the taxpayers’ dollars, becomes public record immediately once in the recipient’s inbox. Therefore all FL public organizations and institutions are obligated to have a warning posted on their websites in a prominent position, advising visitors to submit their inquiries or requests for public records in form of conventional handwriting should they wish their email address remain private. In fact, it is often only up to individual to define by acting this or other way whether his or her private information becomes a matter of a public record.

About the Author

C. Dyson is a part of team of activists working towards improving the online resource that is largely free for the Internet users and whose aim is to help the community be well informed at every time of what is new in the Professional Investigator industry offering people chance to take timely and correct decisions through quality background check that can be outsourced from reliable third party professionals, many of whom are former police officers, law enforcement agencies agents, and other legal professionals with hundred years of combined experience in the industries related to screening people criminal and general background histories.

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