Private Investigator Blog

The Southern California case of a man who was falsely convicted, on the testimony of a jail-house snitch, and the withholding of exculpatory evidence by the District Attorney, was overturned. After 24 years of incarceration, Thomas Goldstein was released earlier...
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Bay Area PI, Nick Cannon’s educational software debuts. Florida gumshoe gets acquittal for criminal defendant. Reconstituting trash from garbage hauls is a source of competitive intelligence. It’s not illegal to fake your own death but this PI uncovered the insurance...
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The booming construction trade and a change in Nevada state rules, finds Los Angeles law firms setting up satellite offices. Growth areas include construction-defect defense, litigation, real estate and professional liability, land use and planning, health care, environmental law and...
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It’s that time of the year when the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics tells investigators our work prospects, the pay scale, the characteristics of the PI business, and more. Apparently, 1/3 of us are self-employed. Particular temperaments...
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The MediaFinder database catalogues 72, 000 publication titles, providing publisher contact and publication information. It is searchable by title, theme and keyword. Free searches are only available through libraries. My local public library provides remote access. This company claims to...
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This Findlaw search mechanism draws from the Westlaw database. A free registration will give you access to case names, but any case details require subscription. Only a last name is required to access a list of cases, or enter a...
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The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse claims that records maintained by The Work Number may not be accurate. The PRC says that they’ve received complaints, from current or former employees of reporting companies, about job detail discrepancies. …job titles have been misreported,...
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Federal Trade Commission has issued final summaries of identity theft and general consumer rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA). The general consumer rights summary provides that: –...
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This report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics provides demographic characteristics on the death row population through 2003. Highlights include the following: At yearend 2003, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,374 prisoners under sentence of death, 188...
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Websites that sell or provide free, public and non-public personal information, allow listed individuals to opt-out. A sampling of some of these very familiar companies is listed at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The obvious problems attend for locate and background...
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