Be Your Own Detective

After the 2004 murder of a Univ of NC student by a fellow student who had a criminal history of violence against women, colleges and universities are seriously thinking about running criminal background checks on all future applicants.
The victim’s family came to the decision that the University’s admission policies was to blame. Following a lawsuit, [...]

Who says “crime doesn’t pay?” Well, it certainly does for the Chicago politicians. In the most corrupt city in America, it seems, becoming an ex-convict is a foot-in-the-door for a career in broadcasting or politics. This is a tradition in Chicago politics. This is a no-brainer, given this city’s long history of corruption.
For example, in [...]

During today’s tough job market, more people are looking into having their criminal records sealed or expunged.
It’s bad enough people are having a hard time finding work as it is, but this only makes it worse for them. Employers are digging deeper into people’s pasts. Even after the courts purged or expunged arrest information, and [...]

When your child makes a new friend, it is very likely that your child will tell you all they know about their friend. This readiness of information, however, does not always include a large amount of information [...]

Is your partner’s cell phone ringing off the hook? If this is a sudden change, this new activity may be cause for alarm. This is especially true if the number that is calling your boyfriend or girlfriend’s [...]

A 411 type reverse cell phone directory, the “National Cell Phone Directory” has gotten much publicity but the reality is, this concept never got anywhere. Privacy advocates, consumer protection groups and cell phone providers lobbied against it.
For law enforcement, tracing a cell phone number is [...]

DMV – Department of Motor Vehicles
Your State DMV is one of the most well known, most frequently used repositories of information used to track somebody down. Provided the [...]

When searching for a phone number or address, most people will begin with sites such as yahoo or bigfoot, and stop there, but this source of phone numbers & addresses [...]

Finding somebody’s unlisted phone number is not necessarily all that difficult. Unlisted phone numbers have been known to turn up in the most surprising places. Use a bit of imagination and think of all the possible public places both online and offline where somebody is likely to have their phone number. First try simply doing [...]

Adoption searches are generally very difficult due to privacy laws, designed to protect the identify of the birth mother. In most states, when a mother puts her kid up for adoption, [...]