A grant program designed to enhance the accuracy and completeness of the state’s criminal-records repository will pay for 77 new devices courts across Ohio will use to capture defendants’ fingerprints ...

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The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is hoping to reduce wait times for criminal record checks with a new online application ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

More than 2 million people in Illinois are eligible to have their records sealed but haven’t acted on what is currently a cumbersome, lengthy process.