People-search and family history Web sites have come under fire from California lawmakers, residents and privacy advocates concerned that personal data available online can be used to aid identity ...

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The Los Angeles Times today published the Police Records Access Project, a new searchable database featuring once-secret police records. Built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, 1.5 million pages ...

It’s never been easier to find information online, from checking in on who’s in the Winona County jail to how much money your local politician raised last year. Part of the problem with online records ...

A searchable database of public records concerning use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies — is now ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California ...