That's where a public records search comes in handy — by poring over thousands of public documents, including mortgages, attachments, and liens, and permitting information.

If you own property, your name, address, purchase price and mortgage status are all on public record, and by law anyone can see them. In fact, it’s all online, so you don’t even need to be in ...

"City officials are attempting to approve the 101 Ash St. (disposition and development agreement) and ground lease and related documents while concealing their essential terms from public scrutiny," ...

The GovQA platform, created by IT company Granicus, contained vulnerabilities that could have let cybercriminals retrieve tranches of sensitive files tied to public records requests, a security ...

Each state, however, has its own laws in place around what kinds of records can be released. In some cases, like Kiser's, individuals can ask a court to seal records that would ordinarily be public.