Private Investigator Blog

Florida adds a neighborhood search to the Sexual Offenders and Predators online database. Go to the site. With almost 35,000 registered sex offenders and predators, the FDLE database is one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Over...
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Sadly, merlindata.com, one of the most respected database companies by private investigators, has experienced a theft of personal information, by a customer posing as an investment advisor. Information on almost 9,000 people, 2,700 of whom are Californians was stolen before...
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Find the repository for U.S. City Directories, those great genealogical tools that are more than a phonebook, more than a reverse...
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Anita Ramasastry writes on the clash of the First Amendment and the need for restricting personal identifiers on the Internet. Ramasastry, an Associate Professor of Law, reflects on the legalities and the dangers of too much freely distributed information, particularly...
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A few months ago I reported on that bad piece of legislation proposed in Louisiana that would turn private investigators into stalkers. HB 51 changes the crime of stalking to”intentional”, repeated following of someone. It was passed by the House...
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My subject’s post office...
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Michigan police departments are shedding responsibility for supplying traffic accident reports by contracting with a private company, which can provide these online. The TRACView service will double the fee charged to obtain a report but the public can still get...
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The Republic of Texas is a sniff away from enacting, HB 3278, a measure that will limit personal information available in county records. It would allow you to have personal information redacted or removed from public documents and would require...
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This could just be a fabricated, immigrant bashing story but it raises some curious possibilities for corruption of public records. A Denver television station report, Undocumented Immigrants Buying Homes With Fake IDs: Government-Backed Loans Going To Those With Phony Social...
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Florida Compliance Stop Work Order Database is searchable by employer for Worker Compensation...
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