Private Investigator Blog

If you ask for police reports or court files in Las Vegas you may get the third degree. A new policy in Las Vegas Justice Court limiting access to police reports and other public records is under fire from advocates...
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Journalism students evaluate the accessibility of public records in Iowa. An investigation by 15 Iowa newspapers and a senior ‘journalism class at Drake University has found both improvement and some setbacks in the availability of public records in Government offices...
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Those of you in the fine state of Georgia may want to contact the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about an editorial advocating the elimination of data aggregation. Huh. What Stone Age, anti-democratic planet are these people living on? And they’re journalists. Well,...
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If you believe in open access to police reports get your advocacy hat on and head over to the California Attorney General’s office, which is taking public comments on this very issue. Californians Aware reports: June 7 is the deadline...
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Geoff Tipton has a start-up blog on topics of import to companies conducting background checks. Pay him a visit and post your comments at...
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The Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, in a recently published opinion, CAL Comm’n v. Super. Ct. of Sacramento County (04/07/05 – No. C045494), affirms that the California Commission On Peace Officer Standards And Training (POST) officer personnel records are...
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Before being distracted by the short-sighted pursuits of the Department of Homeland Security I had in mind a tid-bit from the Congressional Quarterly titled, Law Clears Way for House Clerk to Purge Old Documents. [Only available by subscription.] The Lobbying...
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The Congressional Quarterly reports on a curious Department of Homeland Security decision in, Animal Rights Groups and Ecology Militants Make DHS Terrorist List, Right-Wing Vigilantes Omitted. Homegrown acts of politically motivated violence span the spectrum from the ideological left to...
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Daniel Solove and Chris Hoofnagle have released version 2 of their Model Regime of Privacy Protection, which incorporates references to criticisms they received from their prior paper. This Model Regime seeks to “regulate information privacy”; its current impetus set in...
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Private investigators have recently been receiving telephone calls from Intelius, a database company, soliciting new subscribers. The company is suing a couple of California public records providers over a trademark claim which smells much like the recently settled lawsuit brought...
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