NEW FREE SEARCHES FOR INVESTIGATORS

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:17 pm

1. NEW FREE SEARCHES FOR INVESTIGATORS
2. IDENTIFICATION OF VONAGE PHONE NUMBERS
3. OKLAHOMA'S NEW DRIVERS LICENSES FOR s-e-x OFFENDERS
4. FLORIDA'S s-e-x OFFENDER EMAIL ADDRESS REGISTRY
5. FEDERAL COURT *AUDIO* FILES ONLINE!
6. OTHER IMPORTANT WEBSITES (PLUG)

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1. NEW FREE SEARCHES FOR INVESTIGATORS

Here's the latest free searches added to Black Book Online. Thanks to all who submitted tips! Highlights as follows:

CALIFORNIA - Kern County Veterans Registry
WISCONSIN - Registered Voters
MARYLAND - State Bar Members
SOUTH DAKOTA - Registered Voters
NEW YORK - Registered Voters
CALIFORNIA - Los Angeles Official Police Garage Towed Vehicle Lookup
UTAH - DUI Charges
TEXAS - Harris County Public Employee Salaries
KANSAS - Johnson County Warrant Search
INDIANA - Arrest Warrants (Multiple Counties)
CALIFORNIA - Santa Clara County Registered Voters
CALIFORNIA - San Mateo County Registered Voters
WYOMING - Goshen County Arrest Warrants
MAINE - Portland Assessors Office
NEVADA - Humboldt County Assessor
NEVADA - Lyon County Assessor
NEVADA - Washoe County Assessor
IDAHO - Ada County Arrest Warrants
IDAHO - Ada County Jail Inmates
TEXAS - Dallas County Jail Inmates
NEW JERSEY - State Employee Salaries
NEW JERSEY - Teachers
NEW JERSEY - Monmouth County Jail Inmates
ILLINOIS - Chicago Police - Stolen Vehicle Reports and Towed Vehicle Lookup
NATIONAL - Sanctioned Teachers List
TEXAS - City of Mesquite Warrants
NEW YORK - NYC Building Contractors
ARIZONA - Mohave County Bail Bondsmen
OREGON - Washington County Arrest/Release Reports
OREGON - Clatsop County Jail Inmates
OHIO - Hamilton County Deadbeat Parents

There were many, more more...the above is just a sampling!

2. IDENTIFICATION OF VONAGE PHONE NUMBERS

VOIP phone numbers present a special challenge to investigators and skiptracers. A person with a VOIP phone number, like those from Vonage, could be physically located anywhere in the world - despite having an area code that suggests otherwise. Unfortunately, there is no single trick or database for identifying whether or not a phone number is in fact a VOIP line. But with the assistance of investigators from around the country, it's now possible to determine if a phone number is from Vonage - the largest service provider of VOIP in the U.S.

When run through publicly available phone company identifier websites like fonefinder.net or phonevalidator.com, Vonage numbers don't come up as "Vonage" as the company uses subcarriers for its phone connections. To try and determine which phone carriers these might be, a request was put out on investigative listserves asking members who positively, absolutely knew a phone number to be a Vonage line to send it in. The results were as follows:

Focal Communications 60%

Level 3 Communications 30%

XO Communications 10%

So, when using a phone company identifier website like phonevalidator.com, if one of these carriers comes up, there's a good possibility the phone number is from Vonage.

3. OKLAHOMA'S NEW DRIVERS LICENSES FOR s-e-x OFFENDERS

Effective November 1, any Oklahoma s-e-x offender who applies for a new drivers license or renews an old one is going to have the words s-e-x OFFENDER emblazoned across it in red letters. The new law only applies to s-e-x offenders who are categorized as "aggravated" or "habitual."

Click this link to see what it looks like: http://www.crimetime.com/ok_license_sample.htm

4. FLORIDA'S s-e-x OFFENDER EMAIL ADDRESS REGISTRY

I recently learned that Florida requires its s-e-x offenders to register their email addresses and IM screen names with the state. Even better is that the information is available in a public look up. Access it here:

http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/Search.jsp

5. FEDERAL COURT *AUDIO* FILES ONLINE!

PACER, the subscription website for accessing federal court records, has announced a pilot program to make archived audio recordings of courtroom proceedings available over the Internet. Five courts are in the pilot program: Nebraska and Eastern Pennsylvania, along with the bankruptcy courts in Maine, Eastern North Carolina and Northern Alabama. If an audio recording is available, the docket page will have a clickable audio icon. The cost to listen to an audio clip is just 8 cents!

6. OTHER IMPORTANT WEBSITES (PLUG)

FYI, my websites for private investigators, skip tracers and others...

http://www.CrimeTime.com Books & Information for Private Investigators
http://www.SkipSmasher.com Restricted Data for Professional Skiptracers
[url]http://www.BlackBookOnline.info Database Searches for Investigators - Free[/url]
[url]http://www.SSNvalidator.com Identify Potentially Fraudulent Social Security Numbers - Free[/url]
[url]http://www.PhoneValidator.com Is it a cell or is it a landline? Free[/url]
http://www.SkiptraceSeminar.com Learn to skiptrace online in 3 hours.

IN CLOSING:

As a final reminder, for FREE database searches for investigators, go to Black Book Online, now found at http://www.BlackBookOnline.info . Be sure to bookmark it now!

Best regards,

Robert Scott
Private Investigator (Los Angeles)
Author, "The Investigator's Little Black Book 3"
Editor, Black Book Online, now located at[url] http://www.BlackBookOnline.info
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