Private Investigator Blog

The title of a recent amendment to the North Carolina Public Records Act reveals the twisted direction legislatures are taking open government: Protect Confidential Info of Public Agencies. SB 932 bars the publication of any State employees’ home or personal...
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A Portland newspaper is entitled to see internal police records of the investigation and discipline of an officer who killed an unarmed woman during a traffic stop two years ago, the state Court of Appeals ruled...
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Citing various court cases, including a 1992 Delaware Supreme Court ruling that recognized a common law right to privacy, as well as conflicting Michigan court cases involving autopsy information, Lamb declared that “the overwhelming weight of authority holds that a...
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Go to the end of this post for an important message about nationwide criminal searches. Private investigators, attorneys and reporters, working in legal and political arenas, are charged with finding out whether their subject has been naughty or nice. If...
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I was struck today by the jam in which private investigators find ourselves, trying to locate witnesses, heirs or separated family, in the current environment of suspicion that pervades the release of personal identifiers. The dilemma for the public (of...
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I often rely on state archives and local historical societies for genealogical and heir research. More of these research projects have landed on my doorstep related to Quiet Title actions. Some of the property ownership information is 100 years old...
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Searching for the location of a county but don’t know the state? Or maybe you want a list of all the states with a particular county name. Here’s where you go....
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Searchable database by name of decedent covers 70 percent of Utah’s graveyards....
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It had to be. Probably the only benefit to the low cost ID theft insurance is the compensation for wages lost due to time away from work repairing damaged...
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The trial courts in New Hampshire are awaiting a decision by the State Supreme Court before any criminal index information or documents are posted to the Internet. Meanwhile the NH District Federal Court is making all recently filed criminal documents...
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