Private Investigator Blog

The New Year brings some changes to accessing birth records of adoptees. New Hampshire will allow adult adoptees to obtain copies of their original birth certificates with the names of their biological parents. Read the article The New Jersey Senate...
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This is not just another lurid tale of mentally ill woman-kills-self-with-gun-purchased-at-WalMart. Shayla Stewart, a diagnosed manic-depressive and schizophrenic, killed herself last year with a weapon purchased at…(you know where). But here’s the thoughtful, intriguing issue related to privacy, law enforcement...
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According to this law.com article, 25% of workers compensation surveillance video ends up supporting the plaintiff. And that’s out of 10-15 percent of cases that are videotaped. In the cited case, the defendant videotaped the plaintiff, who really was injured....
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This horse identification program identifies and records information on individual horses, including color photos, microchip data and maintains that information in a database, which can be accessed for a fee. Identity database, equine...
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Fear is fomenting across the land. The people, faced with the uncertain danger of their personal identifiers used by unauthorized others, are rising up, demanding that the personal become, well, personal. Or, at least only the purview of the government....
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Cops, as private citizens, are fed up with bad drivers, and are telling us (for a fee) who’s been naughty. Tattle, and find who’s been tattled on, and get the satisfaction of knowing that the errant (or accused errant) driver,...
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This free bankruptcy database indexes large publicly owned companies that have filed for bankruptcy. Lynn M. LoPucki developed this tool for journalists. WebBRD is the most powerful business bankruptcy research tool on the web. WebBRD enables you to design and...
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The Santa Cruz County Recorder is joining Monterey, California in withholding, from the public, access to the original documents, which are scanned into a digital format before they are sent back to the submitter. The title companies are steamed up...
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Archival news and film footage, along with stock film (bad weather…), service. Search across all sources by keywords and get a synopsis of the content of each document. Vanderbilt University claims to house the largest collection of National network news....
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This is more musing than hard news. Check out the Do Not Call Registry site for telemarketers. Those folks access ALL the Do Not Call numbers, in order to purge their lists! It looks like a number of types of...
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