According to Jackson Lewis' Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report blog, a Pennsylvania district court awarded $1,000 to 68,000 members of a class suit that claimed Bucks County and other municipal institutions violated state laws by making their criminal records public. The case began in 2012 when Daryoush Taha alleged that the county’s publicly accessible inmate search tool included access to an online database with criminal history records for all current and former Bucks County Correctional Facility inmates dating back to 1938. Access to the records is unlawful under the state's Criminal History Records Information Act. Plaintiffs argued the failure to review and abide by the law came with "reckless indifference," and a jury found there was a "willful" violation of the law.
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