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Remove Your Personal Details From Online Databases
There's probably plenty of information about you available on the Internet. Online directories and databases offer this data either free or for a price. Fortunately, you can remove your personal details from some online databases.
But you might be wondering how your name, address, telephone number and, often, date of birth ended up online? Information is obtained from public records and marketing databases. This includes court documents, county and state records, voter registration, marriage licenses, subscriptions and other sources.
The following are five big online databases with instructions on how to remove your data. For your convenience, I also posted direct links to these sites at www.komando.com/news.
US Search
US Search (www.ussearch.com) frequently shows up in online searches.
Copies of public records can be costly in Colorado
FORT COLLINS (AP) - For 38 years, Coloradans have had to pay up to $1.25 per page to get copies of public records, the highest allowable rate set by state law in the United States. Open government advocates say it might be time for Colorado to review a law passed in 1968, before high-speed copiers became commonplace.“It costs 7 cents (a page) at Kinko's. Not 75 cents, not 50 cents, not $1.25. Seven cents," said Jenny Flanagan, executive director at Colorado Common Cause, a government watchdog group.A database of state open records laws maintained by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press indicates that most state laws require governments to pass along “reasonable" fees to recover actual costs from those seeking copies of government records. Some states allow agencies to charge customers for staff time to search and copy documents.Several specify in statutes the maximum allowable charges for duplications, with Colorado's top rate of $1.25 a full 25 percent higher than any other state.New Mexico limits per-page charges to $1, the closest to Colorado, but unlike Colorado does not allow charges for staff time.
Remove personal info from online databases
There's probably plenty of information about you available on the Internet. Online directories and databases offer this data either free or for a price. Fortunately, you can remove your personal details from some online databases. But you might be wondering how your name, address, telephone number and, often, date of birth ended up online? Information is obtained from public records and marketing databases. This includes court documents, county and state records, voter registration, marriage licenses, subscriptions and other sources. The following are five big online databases with instructions on how to remove your data. For your convenience, I also posted direct links to these sites at www.komando.com/news. US Search
US Search (www.ussearch.com) frequently shows up in online searches.
Disaster center records lacking
WASHINGTON -- Three months after a Senate panel voted to spend $20 million on a proposed disaster response center for Mobile, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has no records or plans related to the project, a top manager said in a letter to the Press-Register. A search of NOAA files "failed to identify" any such documents, Budget Director Steven Gallagher wrote in an Oct. 3 reply to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the newspaper in July. After repeated inquiries by the Press-Register on Tuesday and Wednesday, NOAA spokesman Jordan St. John qualified that written response, saying the agency has "a plan in development" for the proposed center. Because Congress has not yet given final approval to funding for the project, the plan is not yet final and is considered an internal work document that does not have to be released to the public, St.
July 22nd, 2008 04:36 AM
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Puyallup now logs public records requests (Tacoma News Tribune)
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Puyallup is changing its approach to public records requests following a News Tribune analysis that found the city was the slowest among local agencies to respond to requests in 2007.
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July 24th, 2008 02:01 AM
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Records policy changes proposed (Homer News)
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[Should the city of Homer "provide full and free access of the public to municipal records and information?" Or, should it "provide prompt and reasonable public access to nonconfidential public records according to law?"
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