The online digital age has made it more difficult for people to hide from their criminal and arrest records. More and more courts are putting people’s criminal and civil records online. In addition, third-party background check sites are collecting these records and making them easy and inexpensive to search for online. Thanks to the internet […]
Open N.C. is a project that collects public records from various sources for the state of North Carolina and makes it easier for reporters and journalists to access them from one online search. The site was developed by The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Chapel Hill with support from […]
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NBC News reports that a Missouri mother has been reunited with her daughter 50 years after a hospital mistakenly told her that her daughter had died during childbirth. The daughter was adopted by another family after Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, MO stated that she had died at birth. Zella Jackson-Price, 76, met […]
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This week the Federal Trade Commission warned several prominent online background check services that they may be in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FTC mailed official letters to 10 background check companies warning them of the potential problem with the information they provide to employers and creditors. Several sites were warned that […]
Social networks have long been great search tools for finding past friends and family as well as ways to stay in touch with current friends and relatives. Now adoptees are using Facebook and other social media sites to find their birth parents and biological families. As a result of restrictive state laws that often limit […]
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