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		<title>Get in trouble in New Hampshire and your mugshot may end up on Facebook.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what I would call &#8220;a sign of the times&#8221; the people of Boscawen, NH are calling Police Chief Sean Sweeney &#8220;foul&#8221; for posting their mugshot photos on the world&#8217;s largest social networking site Facebook. But the Chief isn&#8217;t backing down because He says: all arrest records, including mug shots, are public records. Would you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey won’t make a pretty penny off public records, anymore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We wrote before about how New Jersey was charging upwards of $0.75 for each printed public record. Well they have seen the light to where the top cost for a letter sized document is $0.05 and $0.07 for legal sized documents. Bringing the proposed cost of a 100 page report down from $100 to less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook could be used in your next background check.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you know the PhotoFinder application you use on Facebook to tag yourself and friends in pictures? Well Facebook has been using face recognition technology to keep track of you and your friends, no big surprise. Here comes the surprise they also send this information to USA government databases and state police. It will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bakgroundz.com/news/facebook-could-be-used-in-your-next-background-check</link>
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		<title>How to go about REALLY finding public records.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Tribune has a good story on how to start your search for public records. Among the story two good resources for sending letters to your state&#8217;s public records official. My favorite one is first, clean interface &#038; easy to use. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press The Student Press Law Center]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the power back into the public&#8217;s hands.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state of Conneticut has implemented a sex offender registry that allows the general public to look up sex offenders in their community. It came about when it was exposed that certain CT universities weren&#8217;t even asking prospective students if they had been ever convicted of a felony or crime. The problem is the students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on Newark PD, allowing criminals to fight criminals.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though there are alot of relatives in the Newark Police Department, Essex county prosecutors are looking into matters where police academy graduates who failed background checks were allowed to join the police force anyway. A unit who conducts the background checks recommended not hiring applicants with criminal histories some with felony convictions, [...]]]></description>
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