Private Investigator Blog

Public Records, Internet Search – PI Buzz

Home
Tamara Thompson
Contact
Government Employees
Favorite Links
Genealogy
- Genealogy Links & Databases
- Obituaries
Resources

Category Archives: Research Methods

6 Dec

Research Tip: Online Court Case Index and Documents

Many online court case name lookups also have document images. Some court indexes, as in the one provided by Alameda County, California, only have search and retrieval of documents by case number. The Sacramento County Court Case Management System (CCMS)...
Read more »

California, Public Records, Research Methods, States Leave a comment

18 Aug

Scrubbing and promoting your online image or uncovering someone else’s

The profile you proudly blast across the Internet today may be one that makes you cringe tomorrow. Perhaps this is more the case as the general use of the Internet grows out of adolescence. You need not quake because for...
Read more »

Personal Data, Privacy, Research Methods Leave a comment

2 Aug

Freedom of Information and Internet Research Resources

There are actually enough bloggers consistently writing on FOIA, open government and access to public records that we now have our own Carnival – a rotating group of writers who do regular round ups of the“Best posts from the FOIA-sphere.”...
Read more »

Public Records, Research Methods 3 Comments

2 May

Find public records in the deep Web

The news that Google is assisting some states with indexing their online public records content has been repeated in the mainstream press, without shedding much light on the what or how. The Arizona Government Technology Agency does a better job,...
Read more »

Arizona, Public Records, Research Methods, States Leave a comment

5 Apr

Research charitable organizations

Charities and non profit organizations are monitored by state agencies and the Internal Revenue Service, and tracked by many private advocacy groups. Even if you’re not particularly interested in a specific charitable organization you might want to know the people...
Read more »

Business, Government, Public Records, Research Methods Leave a comment

6 Feb

Does your company or law firm have guidelines on the use of pretexting?

The government pursuit of private investigators, lawyers and corporate officers caught in the HP and Pellicano imbroglios have raised awareness of some off-color investigative practices. Many of these – pretexting for customer telephone records and obtaining personal financial documents without...
Read more »

Personal Data, Research Methods 1 Comment

25 Nov

Pretexting may not be pretty but often beats the alternative

The article, How Pretexting Helped Serve Divorce Papers on a Runaway Mother, recounts the all too common experience of a process server attempting to get legal papers to a party to a lawsuit, demonstrating why an outright ban on pretexting...
Read more »

Personal Data, Research Methods Leave a comment

12 Nov

Free information databases and their fee services

MelissaData, the marketing list service, has free information lookup databases, some drawn from government records, of boundary maps, city and county names and zip codes, public school locators and statistical data. Like most of these free sources, there is a...
Read more »

Databases, Research Methods Leave a comment

7 Nov

Background searching through social networking sites

A report issued by CareerBuilder concludes that 1 in 4 hiring managers have used the Internet to check the background of prospective employees and what they find is a lot of dirt. Of those hiring managers who used Internet search...
Read more »

Databases, Research Methods, Web tools 2 Comments

21 Sep

The private investigator archives: Free Internet research and librarian assistance

Public libraries are a free source of periodicals and proprietary databases, many of which can be searched remotely. In Questions? – Answers from the Internet I included links to a list of public library Web sites and a real-time research...
Read more »

Connecticut, Reference, Research Methods, States 1 Comment

← Older posts

Newer posts →

Follow PI Buzz

Connect with PI buzz on social media

Search

Enter your search terms

Web

PIbuzz

Submit search form