Private Investigator Blog

The Contra Costa Times (free registration – use: bugmenot.com) provides a simple rundown of the steps to follow when making a California Public Records Act Request. They also refer the reader to a few of my favorite First Amendment organizations....
Read more »

The FBI will check fingerprints for matches in their crime information database, a national source for criminal histories. Some states now require nursing homes to submit fingerprints of new hires to the FBI for a criminal background check. Could this...
Read more »

Not many of us have need to obtain police reports from Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio but maybe this town will become a trend setter! The Hamilton Police Department website provides online access to a database of reports, searchable by individual...
Read more »

Jackson County, Missouri is suing the state over a new law about to take affect that would be so costly to implement that the county would have to remove all public records from its website. The new law prohibits governments...
Read more »

The Missouri Attorney General has a charities lookup on its website. The details are skimpy and not nearly as extensive as the California AG site for finding federally approved, state registered charities and charity fundraisers. California also provides the pdf...
Read more »

Mug shots of defendants in federal cases are public records, not just available through discovery, according to the Sixth Circuit, refuting the directive issued to the U.S. Marshals Service by its general counsel to release photos only to aid capture...
Read more »

The Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that data on school district computers may not be a public record, which would have to be determined on a case by case basis. Evan Brown discusses this case and...
Read more »

The days of slipping unnoticed into a school to interview a teacher or student may become a distant memory if personal identification technology expands beyond this Florida district. The Collier County Public School District has selected GVI Security to provide...
Read more »

Amazon has a new angle on mapping and spacial imaging, available at A9.com. Unlike the aerial satellite photographs available through Google, A9 is collecting street level views, from the human perspective. A handful of cities, and those are only partially...
Read more »

Search for trucking companies by company name, location or owner/operator to get address, telephone number, email or owner names within a specific...
Read more »