Automated background checks that don’t utilize an experienced researcher, or even any human, may have unforeseen limitations, revealed in this unfortunate but commonplace tale. Last month, True.com filed a lawsuit in federal court in California against a man who the...
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Those of you in Indiana may want to take special note of the Court of Appeals decision in Knightstown Banner vs. Town of Knightstown, which examined “Whether documents created by the attorney appointed by Knightstown’s reciprocal insurer, memorializing the terms...
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If you’re conducting regular and extensive searching of SEC filings, consider the well regarded power search tool, 10kWizard, which bills itself as “SEC Power Search”. Select from four subscription packages, which add download capabilities, alerts, financial data and international companies....
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The Celebrity Black Book has compiled names and contact addresses of celebrities, their agents and entertainment companies. If you only need to access this information infrequently check with your local library, which probably has a copy. Or go to the...
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The Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group has catalogued more than 1/4 million Holocaust records, focusing on Jews who lived in Poland before the war or who were in Poland during the war. Jewish Records Indexing “is the largest fully searchable database...
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The law regarding overt and surreptitious use of technology -recording and GPS location tracking devices- varies between jurisdictions, and between the type of technology and the circumstances under which it is used. I previously wrote about the ins-and-outs of telephone...
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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) catalogues personal and statistical data on various parts of the federal government. For a fee, you can query their database on a host of topics. The federal judicial section of the database allows the...
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Yahoo! Answers, the other popular search engine’s response to Google Answers, has a twist that may make it useful as an investigative tool. Anyone can post questions at Yahoo! Answers to which others in the Internet community respond. The questioner...
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Are you on the prowl for new sources of telephone information? Take a look at the Phones Plus search added to the array of people finder tools offered by Accurint and IRB. Here’s the official announcement, somewhat short on details:...
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You may have been similarly frustrated as the reporter I overheard at the court clerk’s office. He was trying to convince a court clerk that a probation report was a public record. He was probably right but he didn’t have...
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