Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Records Online Searching

By Claire Dowell


New York public records are never kept confidential but are instead provided to people as the term suggests. The state has established a lot of agencies just to make sure that all the types of records are appropriately taken care of. More importantly, the state's main objective would be to become transparent to its constituents in terms of public information like marriage, divorce, death, arrest, criminal report and among others. These are all meticulously updated and archived for the use of future generations to come.

The New York Department of Health caters the documentation of reports related to death, birth and divorce. Apparently, they are specifically archived by the Vital Records Division under the Department of Health. For the record, they have started the updating of reports since 1881 which people can request by mail, phone or through the Internet. A certified copy will cost $30.00, but if you are going to request rush release of results then you will have to pay $15.00 more for such an express service. Courthouses will also be a helpful resource if you are to request for a certified copy of a divorce record.

Courthouses are also useful resources when searching for divorce information. You only have to call or visit in person the clerk of court's office and state your purpose before the clerk. The Vital Records Department on another note is capable of supplying facts on marriage reports. Gradually, as the database on marriage records gets bigger and bigger they have created another organization called the New York City Marriage Bureau which particularly takes care of any requests relating to the marriage files. A marriage report can be obtained at $15.00 per copy and another $10.00 if you would like to reproduce the copies.

There are actually a lot of bureaus where you can seek for legal help from when necessary. These law enforcement units have been established to make sure that the criminals are punished and the innocent people are protected from these perpetrators and offenders. These agencies include the narcotics department, highway patrol, police headquarters and among others. They all have guidelines and policies being followed in the act of providing the citizens with credible details on public records.

All these departments have similar processes on how to perform the search. One just needs to secure an official copy of the records application form and fill it out completely. All the details being asked from the form must be supplied with; otherwise, the records office cannot begin the search for lack of basic inputs regarding the person whom you are investigating with. There are specific rules and guidelines which you need to observe; if not then your application will definitely be rejected. The only hold up in government records services is the process itself since you had to go through all the formalities before you eventually obtain what you wanted.

The great news these days is that performing a public records search can be just a piece-of-cake because it can be done anytime and anywhere with the advancement of modern technology. In other words, a computer with access to the Internet makes this whole thing a possibility. You only have to find the right legal resource to be able to acquire the various public documents. It is more safety and handy in the sense that you can do it on your own at the most convenient place.




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