Be Your Own Detective

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 [...]

In this era of increasing awareness of crime, especially sex offenders, there is seriously a real need for many ordinary people, to check criminal backgrounds of those whom they entrust with their children, or plan to marry, or take on as new business partners. Many Americans find themselves flabbergasted with disbelief when they found out [...]

Exaggerated dates of previous employment
35% of resumes are not truthful about past work history. Many employees stretch the truth about gaps in employment, they do not want to have to explain.
Inflated salary histories and titles
Concealing a criminal record
See http://www.rismedia.com/wp/2007-06-27/beware-of-blunders-top-five-prospective-job-candidate-lies/

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, [...]

County Jail Links | Dept of Corrections

Centinela Prison
Our mission is to provide long-term confinement of men convicted of felonies and incarcerated with the California Dept. of Corrections.
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Los Angeles Police Department Detective Stephanie Lazarus was ordered to stand trial this week in the 1986 slaying of a hospital nursing director who was married to Lazarus’ one-time boyfriend. The case is particularly disturbing, because no one thought to investigate Lazarus at the time of the murder – most likely they assumed she was [...]

School is one of the most important aspects in a child’s life. It teaches them the basic skills necessary to get by in the world. Reading, arithmetic, and science are play a part in the building process of a child’s brain. School is really the first chance a child has to make friends and learn [...]

Criminal identity theft, also known as “criminal identity fraud” fortunately is rare, but it has happened. Once your name ends up in a criminal records database, it can be a sonofabitch to clear your name, if not next to impossible. Unfortunately, today’s criminal justice system is still of little help to victims whose names end [...]

(an actual real-life situation)
Question: I have been looking for computer programming work for over the past year, but nobody’s hiring. At first I blamed in on “the Bush recession,” age discrimination, and outsourcing to India, but now I think it’s my wife’s felony conviction that’s could be the problem. I have an impressive resume and [...]

After a criminal charge is dismissed, you might assume you would have a clean record, but in a routine criminal background check by an employer, the arrest shows up. Years later, the arrest still shows up. How can this be? How is this possible? It’s because the arrest was never expunged. Hypothetically, you are arrested, [...]