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ch1ck3n.s0up
Troubled Loner



Registered: 10/03/08
Posts: 2,573
Loc: Hunting Fungi
Last seen: 2 years, 9 months
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Access to Government Records?
#17142292 - 11/01/12 12:51 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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What is the extent of access that the average citizen has to files and information logged on them? http://www.aclu.org/spy-files
-------------------- "Inspiration ~ Move me brightly ~ light the song with sense and color ~ hold away despair ~ more than this I will not ask ~ faced with mysteries dark and vast ~ statements just seem vain at last" --Jerry Garcia, Terrapin Station "Officer, I'm going to remain silent, and I would like to speak with a lawyer. I'm not resisting, but I don't consent to any searches.
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Alan Rockefeller
Mycologist

Registered: 03/10/07
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Re: Access to Government Records? [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
#17142429 - 11/01/12 01:13 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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You can definitely request your police record and FBI file.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/general-information/cgbrochure
Your FBI file will probably be empty; in my case someone told the FBI that I hacked into the DMV, and it says I did that. It is wrong though.
You are much more likely to find stuff in your police records. Each state has a different process for this, in California it's http://oag.ca.gov/fingerprints/security
You could also pay a few dollars and run a background check on yourself. Wouldn't hurt to request a free credit report too while you are at it.
This covers most of the big databases that keep information on people. The rest of them are non-public, such as marketing databases, etc. If anyone knows how to access more records, post here.
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DieCommie

Registered: 12/11/03
Posts: 29,258
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I requested my records through the state and they were not complete. It was supposed to be, the clerk insisted that was all there was, but it was only about half of my arrests. I went to the individual cities where I got arrested and pieced together more of what records I have but I still dont have a complete set with some fragments floating around.
Also one was reporting a misdemeanor as a felony, and I got that fixed... kind of. Other agencies who have not updated their records still record it as a felony and I have had it come up after I got it "fixed".
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Anonymous #1
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Re: Access to Government Records? [Re: DieCommie]
#17174853 - 11/06/12 07:44 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anyone is able to file a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) in United States I know some security researchers in the US that have done it and got back their file.
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