Court records

A Boston judge has granted a government request to view sealed divorce records of alleged kidnapper Clark Rockefeller, but refused to make them available to the public, according to The Associated Press.

Rockefeller is accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter and has been questioned in the disappearance of a California couple. His case garnered national headlines this summer as police tracked down Rockefeller and the child, who was unharmed, in Baltimore.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Virginia woman who posted on her Web site the Social Security numbers of prominent people to make a point about the availability and potential for abuse of public records on the Internet.

Ohio's state Supreme Court is grappling with the same privacy and transparency dilemma the federal courts dealt with several years ago, deciding what personal information should appear in public records posted on court Web sites.