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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549



                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 14, 2000

                                DBT ONLINE, INC.
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)





                                                                                   

                PENNSYLVANIA                                 001-13333                                85-0439411
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)        (Commission File Number)           (IRS Employer Identification Number)



                              5550 W. FLAMINGO RD.
                                   SUITE B-5
                              LAS VEGAS, NV 89103
          (Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (702) 257-1112


                                 NOT APPLICABLE
          (Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)


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Item 5.  Other Events

              On February 14, 2000, ChoicePoint Inc., a Georgia corporation
         ("ChoicePoint"), executed a definitive agreement in which ChoicePoint
         agreed to acquire all of the outstanding capital stock of DBT Online,
         Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation ("DBT"), in a merger transaction (the
         "Merger") pursuant to the terms of a Merger Agreement, by and among,
         ChoicePoint, ChoicePoint Acquisition Corporation, a Pennsylvania
         corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of ChoicePoint ("Merger
         Sub"), and DBT (the "Merger Agreement"). In the Merger, Merger Sub will
         be merged with and into DBT with DBT surviving such merger. The
         transaction is subject to, among other things, the parties securing
         necessary regulatory review and shareholder approval and is expected to
         be effective sometime in the second quarter of this year. The
         transaction will be accounted for as a pooling of interests.

              ChoicePoint is a leading provider of decision-making intelligence
         to businesses and government agencies. Through the identification,
         retrieval, storage, analysis and delivery of data, the company serves
         the information needs of the property and casualty insurance market,
         the life and health market, and the business and government markets,
         including Fortune 1000 corporations, asset-based lenders and
         professional service providers, and local, state and federal
         governments.

              DBT is a leading nationwide provider of organized online public
         records data and other information. DBT believes that its database is
         one of the country's largest depositories of public records and other
         public information, containing more than 6 billion records and more
         than 27 terabytes of data storage capacity. DBT's customers use its
         online information services to detect fraudulent activity, assist law
         enforcement efforts, locate people and assets, and verify information
         and identities, as well as many other purposes.

              Attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference are the
         Merger Agreement and a joint press release of ChoicePoint and DBT dated
         February 14, 2000.
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Item 7.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.




Exhibit No.
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         2.1      Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among ChoicePoint Inc.,
                  ChoicePoint Acquisition Corporation and DBT Online, Inc.,
                  dated as of February 14, 2000. The Exhibits and Disclosure
                  Letters are referenced throughout the Merger Agreement and are
                  hereby incorporated by reference. Such Exhibits and Disclosure
                  Letters have been omitted for purposes of this filing, but
                  will be furnished supplementally to the Commission upon
                  request.

         99.1     Text of the Joint Press Release of ChoicePoint Inc. and DBT
                  Online, Inc., dated February 14, 2000.


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                                   Signatures


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


Date:    February 15, 2000


                                DBT ONLINE, INC.


                                By:   /s/ J. Henry Muetterties
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                                   Name:  J. Henry Muetterties
                                   Title: Vice President, General Counsel
                                          and Secretary


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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX




Exhibit
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         2.1      Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among ChoicePoint Inc.,
                  ChoicePoint Acquisition Corporation and DBT Online, Inc.,
                  dated as of February 14, 2000. The Exhibits and Disclosure
                  Letters are referenced throughout the Merger Agreement and are
                  hereby incorporated by reference. Such Exhibits and Disclosure
                  Letters have been omitted for purposes of this filing, but
                  will be furnished supplementally to the Commission upon
                  request.

         99.1     Text of the Joint Press Release of ChoicePoint Inc. and DBT
                  Online, Inc., dated February 14, 2000.


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