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The world of public records is a fascinating pool of never-ending disputes. After reading about some of the wars raging on the government arena, it's clear why the President is not allowed to text or e-mail. It's too much trouble.
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On Horses and Other Methods of People Searches
Just got done reading about the Whitewater Area Mounted Search Team and Rescue in Wisconsin, a volunteer group that uses horses to help find missing people. The group got started in August 2006, after an autistic child went missing in the area, and severa...
Reverse Phone Lookup Protects Our Daughters
Barely a day goes by without an incident that reminds parents of teens what a difficult job we have on our hands. Teenagers are hard, because they don't work with us. How does one protect them if they don't want to be protected? Girls of thirteen may have...
Cell Phone Lookup Facilitates Fun Birthday Parties
My son's birthday party is coming up soon. He wants to invite just about everyone he knows, and that's okay with me. Except the PTA-assembled school contact information is not complete or up-to-date. We finally found the addresses or phone numbers (to cal...
Cell Phone Lookup Helps to Safely Deliver a Baby
A nine-year-old boy in rural Kansas has just saved his mother's life and helped deliver his baby sister. The family lives in a tornado-prone area and has a subterranean shelter built in the back yard, with wireless access. The father was away from home th...
Chase Away Unwanted Callers
During the past several weeks I began to receive the same short text message almost every other day. Someone, who appears to be a telemarketer, but not as blatant, keeps sending automated texts to my cell phone. "Please call 2063556944" it invar...
Two Background Checks are Better Than One
The Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Clubs (BGC) of the Mississippi Valley is in the hot seat today. In spite of her reassurances as to their serious approach to candidate pre-employment screening, a former program aide in Davenport, IA was arrest...
With a Background Check for Everyone, We Can Protect Our Children
John Walsh of America's Most Wanted appeared on CNN today in connection with a sensationally successful Operation Orange Tree in the State of Florida. While orange trees are the state's main natural resource, children are even more precious. The operation...
Your People Search Need Not Be Frustrating
We were all really concerned back in April when a teenage girl disappeared in Myrtle Beach, SC. Now, hearing she has yet to be found in the middle of June, makes me really sad. At this point, it's not very likely they will find her alive. The story of Bri...
Keeping Public Records Open Takes Work
John Paff is something of a celebrity in South New Jersey. Some love him, others hate him, but he certainly inspires strong feelings in both proponents and opponents of open public records.
One would be hard-pressed to label the 52-year-old married fa...
Don't You Answer that Craigslist Ad without a Reverse Phone Lookup!
Well, here we are again. Another - drum roll please - that's right, Craigslist-facilitated murder. A young, sweet eight-months pregnant girl who had just moved to Oregon with her partner, the baby's father, because he got a better job. She was full of hop...
NYPD Gave Weapons to Civic Patrol Volunteers with Criminal History - without a Background Check
The following news story could have been an episode right out of The Gangs of New York, were it filmed today ... Except in contemporary New York City, or rather across the bridge in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, the gang is of a slightly une...
Use a Cell Phone Lookup to Screen a Roommate - It May Save Your Life
Another senseless death of a man too young to die occurred on June 3rd in Federal Way, WA. A 24-year-old was stabbed multiple times and found by the police bleeding and dying outside his apartment building. The ambulance arrived soon after, and the young ...
Reverse Phone Lookup: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide!
Here is a story of another sucker caught unawares by a reverse phone lookup. He snatched some high-ticket items on his way out of a sports equipment store. Store security saw him but had failed to catch up with him. Then, this brainiac called the store fr...
Not Sure You Can Pass a Background Check? Go Work For NASA!
Would you believe me if I told you that NASA's premier robotic exploration lab is legally barred from conducting background checks on employees? Well, believe it. Whoever even heard of getting a job these days without passing a background check? That goes...