Private Investigator Blog

Jimmie Mesis, owner of the widely read PI Magazine, expands on his interview with the FTC on the legalities of using a pretext to gather information, at the California Association of Licensed Investigators conference this June in Reno, Nevada. He’ll...
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Reporters in a Pennsylvania survey find that 40 percent of police departments decline to release records that are stipulated by law as open to the public. I previously wrote about similar intransigence in California, Nevada and New York. police...
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Accoona search engine adds a business search button that connects you to the company web page and the Dun & Bradstreet Quick Profile. This provides the company contact person, address, sales volume and number of...
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Come to the California Association of Licensed Investigators conference June 22-24 and discover, Marketing Secrets for Private Investigators, presented by our featured speaker, Nader Anise, the nation’s leading authority on legal marketing. See what’s happening,...
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The NTSB searchable database has civil aviation accidents and selected incidents within the United States, from 1962...
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It looks like Google but blogdigger just indexes blogs. Now it too has a local search. I guess this means you can find weblogs in your hometown that write about...
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The New York Times piece, Personal Data for the Taking: Students Find It’s Easy to Find Out a Lot About People, is mostly a less alarmist rehash of the Western world’s debate over the extent to which public records should...
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A Federal Court, citing the U.S. Constitution privileges and immunities clause, rules that a states’ public records law can’t exclude non residents from requesting and receiving state public records. Resident-only records law ruled unconstitutional Delaware’s rule that only state residents...
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House Bill 525 will require all Ohio felons to submit their DNA for inclusion in a national crime-fighting database that searches for biological matches between known offenders and evidence from unsolved crimes. Read the AG’s press release. law enforcement...
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