Public Records Free Directory Blog

Nationwide records of teacher discipline were kept from public view until recently, when a Florida newspaper collected and published the records in an online database that can be searched by name.
The announcement of this database creates a debate between competing interests, including from some who wonder why the records were not public to begin with. […]

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Several online resources related to FOIA requests and access to government documents are described in this article from the new Court Reference Blog.

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The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have issued this warning about online access to government records:
There is an almost certain prospect that easy online access to personal information will prove a bonanza for not only identity thieves, but predatory businesses such as unscrupulous telemarketers.
… The thief may use personal information to obtain […]

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A little over a year ago I realized that the Public Records Free Directory was not doing a very good job of helping users get the information they needed about courts and court records.  Our links and descriptions for court websites ( and often the linked sites themselves ) lacked information about the scope of […]

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