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Computer processing of Orange County traffic tickets is being done in Mexico. For more than a year, Orange County Superior Court has been using a company called Cal Coast Data Entry to process approximately 500,000 traffic tickets annually. The paper tickets are electronically scanned by Cal Coast in Cerritos and the encrypted data is then [...]

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A News & Observer article dated July 17, 2007 reviews North Carolina laws about obtaining government records that contain commingled information, that is, both public and private information. Under North Carolina’s Public Records Law, a document that contains commingled information must still be produced under a public records request; private information is redacted or removed [...]

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The Freeedom Of Information Act went into effect July 4, 1967 and requires a federal agency to provide an initial response to a request within 20 days and then to provide the documents in a timely manner. According to a Mercury News article dated July 2, 2007, a survey of FOIA requests shows that the [...]

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The Olympian Online reports in an opinion piece dated July 9, 2007, that Thurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Pomeroy ruled that the Washington State Department of Corrections was not obligated to release public records in electronic format, despite the electronic records being in the agency’s possession. The issue before this judge was whether the [...]

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