This is the view from my hotel room in Reno, where I’ll be staying for the Ca Association of Licensed Investigators conference, less than two weeks away. Want an inexpensive hotel? The El Dorado, connected to the conference site by...
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There’s a search industry that feeds off the major search engines, finding different ways to present results from Google and Yahoo searches. DoubleTrust returns weighted inquiry responses, stripping away the overlap links and also showing the unique results from each...
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At some point you may need to know about a particular hoax. Or is it real? The Museum of Hoaxes has a searchable database. For some odd reason I searched on the term “mushrooms” and out of the seven returned...
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The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a government agency can’t charge the public for the time spent hunting for an exemption to the Public Records Act. No commentary necessary… alaska-public...
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This site could be better than ZabaSearch for getting a full DOB associated with a name and city, or finding the locale if you know the name and date of...
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The site Privacy Activism released a study on the accuracy of ChoicePoint data. Surprise: some of the personal identifiers weren’t accurate! Private investigators know this because we work with this data all the time. I would never take the information...
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My experience tells me that investigators could be better writers and often confuse the meaning of different words. This site will help you sort out homonyms –find out why “my two sense” doesn’t make...
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The National Center for State Courts has a well organized list of links to all state trial, appellate and Supreme Courts, tribal and Federal courts, and law related organizations that have a presence on the Internet....
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Privacy advocates are screaming for legislation to control the dissemination of personal information. What’s the downside to imposing limitations on access? ChoicePoint addressed the Florida state Committee on Privacy and Court Records: “We are concerned that the thrust of the…...
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The Federal Records Center in St. Louis is making the following military records available to the public: Navy enlisted men from 1885 until Sept. 8, 1939. Marine Corps enlisted men from 1906 until 1939. Read an article military...
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