I have found that when I ask online for access to free public records( for employment background checks etc) there ends up being a fee involved. How then can they claim there is 'free'access' to public records when this is not true?
2006-10-09 08:24:01 · 7 answers · asked by gail m 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Access to the records is free. It does require you to get up off the couch and drive down to the court house to view the public record.
However if you want copies, or access to the records via the internet, there is a fee, to offset the actual cost of making the copies, or maintaining the internet website and database. But the choice is yours. Isn't America wonderfull!!
2006-10-09 08:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yhave to pay for the record maintenance and the tools to view them. Someone or some company is working to "provide" the free access, so you're paying for the service that archives, maintains, stores them, etc, not the information.
2006-10-09 08:27:07 · answer #2 · answered by sunseekerrv 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the fee is there because they did the leg work for you. to get it free you have to go to the places and know all the tricks that they do.
they know that you don't want to go from new york to san francisco to look up an old land deed. so they charge you a small fee for doing it for you. this beats paying airfare both ways.
2006-10-09 08:27:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The people that put them online want to get paid for their work. The records are free if you go to the library or courthouse where they are stored.
2006-10-09 08:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by George 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
verbal information probably was free but you want online feed backs of written documents and the ball games have to be that way to cover the cost of various services beyond just information talks.
2006-10-09 08:29:35 · answer #5 · answered by bev 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
same way as the Land of the Free is NOT the home of the Brave
2006-10-09 08:27:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
See - https://tr.im/BackgroundChex
2016-12-09 17:59:34 · answer #7 · answered by John 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋