Private Investigator Blog

Subscribers to the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) are periodically sent emails with answers by their lawyers to questions about public records access. A recent query concerned government employee job applications. Are employment applications of current or past employees of...
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If a 411 directory of wireless telephone numbers is every produced it’ll have to be before Senate bill 1350 goes into effect. A provider of commercial mobile services, or any direct or indirect affiliate or agent of such a provider,...
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The Attorney General of Texas was forced to file a petition for writ of mandamus to compel a County Sheriff to release public records that the AG had previously ordered the Sheriff to turn over. The Sheriff not only failed...
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No matter your occupation, if you care about access to information and you can be in Washington D.C. this Thursday, July 14, you are needed to help the National Council of Investigation and Security Services lobby Congress in order to...
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Difficult challenge: must find acronym. Or more likely, you’ll be scratching your head to decipher an acronym. This handy site will help you with this deep seated problem. One of the search results returned for “CALI” was, “Chromophore-Assisted Laser Inactivation”....
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Professional private investigators have long been dismayed by the rampant sale of personal information on the Internet to anyone who will buy it. EPIC’s recent complaint to the Federal Trade Commission lays out the violations of the law implied in...
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The Los Angeles County Assessor has a very friendly real property search retrieval system. Look up a parcel by street address (city name is not required), get a property description and street map showing the location, and then set a...
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Law Technology News has published my recent article on database services and search caveats, Cut to the Chase. (Free registration required.) I hesitate to say this but if you can’t get it online send me an email request. Even though...
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Wisconsin’s director of the state courts has assembled a committee to review their policies related to the posting of court index data at the court website. Wisconsin is one of the few states (Washington, I believe, being the other one)...
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SearchSystems Free Public Records Directory: Still the best and most comprehensive set of direct links to search pages of government public records. The only site of its type with a searchable database. It just instituted an annoying delay page between...
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