The Missouri Senate just had its first reading on a bill to license private investigators. legislation private investigator...
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From the large population center of Plumas County California emerges the command of the County Counsel (represented by Brian Morris) to centralize the handling of California Public Records Act requests. He proposed to the County Supervisors that his office make...
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From the Los Angeles Times comes this California Superior Court update sure to calm the fears of private investigators… A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Monday that a new state law permitting divorce case documents to be sealed in...
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Calling all California legal professionals, attorneys and private investigators. This week you are needed to help restore telephone access to DMV for commercial account holders. This bill will reinstate telephone access that is critical for investigators in the field solving...
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In the California Supreme Court is a case that tests the California Public Records Act. Issues: Petition for review after the Court of Appeal granted in part and denied in part a petition for peremptory writ of mandate. This case...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is required to publish the names of loan borrowers who have defaulted. This HHS database is searchable by borrower’s name, practice area and/or state. These are doctors, dentists, chiropractors and other health...
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There are several sites that aid in associating a bank with its routing number. Bank routing numbers organized by state are here, on a private investigator’s web site. Search The Federal Reserve Bank, FedWire participating financial institutions by name, state...
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The National Criminal Justice Reference Service has released a report on issues of drug dependency, which may be helpful in some of your criminal defense cases. Dynamic Picture of Marijuana and Cocaine Use “Predicting Heavy Drug Use” (60 pp.) (NCJ...
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The Internal Revenue Service has detailed some continuing scams with tax return fraud. Could this one portend an area of investigation for PIs? Dishonest return preparers can cause many headaches for taxpayers who fall victim to their ploys. Such preparers...
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From the Record Searchlight via the First Amendment Coalition: Judge orders unsealing of school district’s sex harassment investigation of former superintendent (Record Searchlight 2/17/05) — A Siskiyou County judge has dismissed the arguments of the high school district board here...
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