Showing posts with label Texas Attorney General. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas Attorney General. Show all posts

Friday, March 02, 2007

More on SSN redaction

SSN masking in Texas has been delayed (re: Opinion No. GA-0519)

Now Arkansas is revising access to court records. In Re: Access to Court RecordsArkansas Supreme Court, Administrative Order No. 19,

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

More on SSN redacting

News media update - The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Feb.
26, 2007

Social Security numbers must be removed from records

An attorney general opinion has prompted county officials to block
access to records that may contain Social Security numbers as they make the
necessary redactions.

First seen at TVC Alert Research News 27 February 2007.

Texas Courts to Remove SSNs

Finally!
Here's something we law librarians have talked about concerning social security numbers on court documents and it looks like the Texas Attorney General Office has issued an opinion on this topic.

GA-0519 published on Feb. 26th, 2007
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinions/ga/ga0519.pdf

Read carefully thru the 13-page opinion. This could mean no or limited access to public records.