The Virginia Watchdog

THE VIRGINIA WATCHDOG

UPDATE 7/1/08 - BJ Ostergren's lawsuit re: public records, SSNs, and First Amendment rights filed against VA's Attorney General. Hearing was 6/30/08 in Federal Court. Here is an AP article about hearing. Also this is in the Virginian Pilot , and this is in the Richmond Times-Dispatch .

UPDATE 7/1/08 - RE: Circuit Court Clerk in Pulaski County, AR. In his Court records website, he still has SSNs showing. One record we found showed a man's SSN 10+ different times... plus he also has home and work addresses of domestic abuse victims, divorce decrees showing minor children's names, addresses, and DOBs! How reckless is all this??? Very...but he says "they're public records."

06/27/2008 - PULASKI CO (AR) CLERK PULLS PLUG ON HIS LAND RECORDS SITE LATE TODAY. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER...BUT...

06/26/08 - Pulaski County (AR) Circuit Court Clerk, Pat O'Brien, refuses to pull the plug on his website. The site continues to spoon feed literally tens of thousands of SSNs to all over the world, but he has blacked out a few of them. Wonder whose?

06/25/08 - Just discovered - another Court Clerk spoon feeding criminals on the world wide web. This one is in Pulaski County, Arkansas (Little Rock area) ... read more.

* To all Virginia citizens past and present - All Virginia Circuit Court Clerks shall have remote access to deeds, mortgages, tax liens, name change documents, final divorce decrees, Powers of Attorney, Wills plus other probate records, guardianship papers, judgments, etc. by July 1, 2008. All these records contain much personal information. Read more about that and also the lawsuit filed by the ACLU of VA on our behalf. Anyone can sign up to gain access to the records which contain SSNs, DOBs, mother's maiden names, minor children's names, financial account numbers, and signatures that you most likely do banking with.

* Read about and email Betty "BJ" Ostergren, Founder/Editor/Publisher of The Virginia Watchdog

* Hot links including this new one..."Patient Privacy Rights" which deals with electronic medical records (a bad idea)

* Here are links to some various Secretary of States' UCC "Search" sites. (UCCs are "financing" statements.)