Private Investigator Blog

Increasingly cities are providing free wireless internet connections, and now San Francisco is reviewing bids from companies to install free wifi throughout the City. Philadelphia has just announced that a major ISP is building a citywide wifi network for free....
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TRACNotes, a publication of the consumer watchdog Telecommunications Research and Action Center, gives a favorable review to a new company that provides free directory assistance and long distance calling when connecting through their directory assistance. Businesses can also pay a...
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The Hayward Police Department (California) is establishing a website for residents to file and obtain low priority reports in which a suspect is not known. The site is run by a private company which must first match its software program...
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Criminal records in state repositories are collated based on reports from the individual counties within that state. Many counties do not collect or report complete records, as I previously noted here and here. The BRB Public Record Update, a free...
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The Santa Barbara County Civil index is searchable by case names or number and can be limited by date range. Dockets are not available. The government operated site describes the index characteristics: The Online Public Index includes cases from 1975...
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Preview a geographical site in 3-D with Google Earth to determine physical layout and whether the building is a single family residence, an apartment or a business. Tilt and rotate the image to view buildings from various angles, and zoom...
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The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs is holding a hearing, Examining the Financial Services Industry’s Responsibilities and Role in Preventing Identity Theft and Protecting Sensitive Financial Information, this Thursday, September 22 at 10:00 AM. Read the...
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A bill that prohibits posting certain personal information on the Internet with the intent or threat to cause harm or death to a person is officially law. Read the...
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I don’t know who’s going to be looking over their shoulder for a potential sex offender on the loose when people are still struggling to figure out where they can put their lives back together. In any case, the Louisiana...
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A New Jersey Superior Court has issued an Order restraining Source Resources from selling telephone account information on Verizon Wireless subscribers. Apparently a customer of Verizon complained that there was an unauthorized access to his/her account, which prompted the lawsuit....
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