Access To Court Records

Traffic speeding crime is rampant in my rural community. There is an average of 100+ high speed street crimes (some as high as 80 to 100 mph) in the 35 mph speed zone by my house every day. I need records to show that the police are not writing many speeding tickets and that our mayor is canceling a large percentage of speeding tickets for friends, family, neighbors, etc. The “good ole boy” network is very active here. Our police chief told me personally that he doesn’t write many tickets because our mayor will just cancel most of them. I would also like to get these same records from my county criminal traffic court dating back before our local mayor’s court was established 4 years ago. Does the Freedom of Information Act apply to local traffic crime records? Do I need an attorney to get these records and will I have to go to court to get them?

BLACKFOOT — Twenty-one-year-old Blackfoot resident Ricardo Lopez-Santillan has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death earlier this month of his four-month old son.

Lopez-Santillan was arraigned on the charge before 7th District Magistrate Judge Charles L. Roos Thursday and his preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 7 at 1:30 p.m.
He is being held in the Bingham County Jail under $50,000 bail and an immigration hold for being an undocumented immigrant.
Lopez-Santillan was originally charged with injury to a child and his preliminary hearing on that charge was scheduled for Thursday, but instead of a hearing Bingham County Prosecutor Scott Andrew filed a motion to amend the charge to involuntary manslaughter and he was arraigned before Roos at the same time.
According to court records, Lopez-Santillan allegedly caused severe brain damage to his infant son on Nov. 18 when he shook him at the home where he lived with the baby’s mother.
The baby was taken to Bingham Memorial Hospital, transferred to Portneuf Medical Center, then Life Flighted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City where staff contacted Bingham County law enforcement to report a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
An arrest warrant was faxed to the University of Utah Police who arrested Lopez-Santillan at the hospital on Nov. 26 on a charge of injury to a child. He was extradited and returned to Bingham County on Dec. 4, a day after his son died of his injuries. http://www.am-news.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99412&Itemid=1

If a local court in another state issues a judgement against you, in spite of not having personal jurisdiction over you, can you sue them in federal court to force them to remove the judgement from their public records?

If so, can you use your own local federal court, or do you have to use the federal court local to the court that issued the bad judgement?
To appeal is the obvious answer, but what are the implications of appealing in a jurisdiction that would only have personal jurisdiction over you because of the bad judgement, and for no other reason? What if it’s in a state known to have a lot of corrupt courts, and you want the case in federal court, just so it will be fair? Can you immediately appeal to federal court, or do you have to go through local and state court appeals first?
Domesticating the judgement is not the issue. I’m not even worried about it. I’m only worried about credit report extortion, because I can’t afford a sudden negative public record on my credit reports during a credit crunch.

To those who keep whining that I’m not paying my fair share of taxes, I did not even live in the plaintiff state during the tax year they claim I owe property taxes on my car. My mention of your un-American attitude was not about evading taxes but about your seeming desire to have all possible taxes collected whether they’re owed or not.
As for the absurd claim that taxes should have no statute of limitations, you’re implying all Americans should be required to retain 100% of all their financial records forever, or be in constant fear that some misguided tax collector will attack them in their old age. That’s not just un-American, but anti-civilization.