Newspapers create public notices Web site

June 23, 2008 · Filed Under Cool stuff, Great Ideas, Great Interactive Storytelling, Great Work Gallery, Innovation 

South Dakota’s weekly and daily newspapers have created a free, text-searchable Web site that includes thousands of government public notices from across the state, The Brookings Register reports.

The site, www.sdpublicnotices.com, is a database of public notices such as the minutes of school boards, city councils and county commissions. Once the public notices are published in the local newspaper, The Brookings Register says, they are uploaded to the Web site where viewers can search by keywords, county , city or newspaper.

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One Response to “Newspapers create public notices Web site”

  1. Brandon on June 25th, 2008 8:23 am

    Does this “public notices” site get crawled by search engines? Most governmental agencies create their sites so records aren’t crawled (you can’t find public-record information via a search engine, you have to go to the public-record site).
    This means John Doe’s arrest for a traffic violation in South Dakota could be much easier to find on Google and Yahoo. Kinda scary.

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