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A controversy exists in the U.S. over who should correct erroneous credit reports, with the credit-reporting companies maintaining that they are only conduits and have no standing to expunge information.
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Should I be able to sue someone who discloses my expunged record? Alabama just arrested a blogger for publishing expunged information.
As for "sealed" records, background-screening companies working for private employers can harvest data at the time of an arrest and there is no guarantee that they will update to reflect dismissals — or expunge the information when records are sealed by the courts.
Some companies have programs that retain information that was expunged from registries, which they publish online, demanding that offenders pay steep fees in order to have the damaging data removed.
While it is often assumed that records of Jewish life in Eastern Europe were expunged by the Nazis, much information survives, says Ms. Weiner, who has spent the better part of a decade in transit unearthing and mapping the documents, with the help of archivists and municipal officials in former Soviet republics and Poland.
But between 1 million and 2 million consumers appear to be in line for score boosts of 20 to 39 points, and 300,000 or more could see FICO increases of 60 points or more, simply because negative information will be expunged from their files.
On Monday, the regulator e-mailed a notice to arbitrators, advising them that information about a broker "should be expunged only when it has no meaningful investor protection or regulatory value".
But lawyers, judges and experts in criminal justice say it is common for people to lose jobs and housing over information in databases that courts have ordered expunged.
The draft agreement, which must be approved by a judge, requires the screening agency to update its files regularly with information on the outcome of cases, and to expunge records of suits when tenants show that the court found a case to be without merit or filed in error.
Michael J. Hershman, president of the Fairfax Group, a risk and reputation management firm, said burying negative information could cost $500 to $1,000, but persuading search engines to expunge incorrect information could cost several thousand dollars more. Getting that information removed from aggregating Web sites like Intellius or PeopleFinder can add another couple of thousand dollars.
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