june 2015. federal statutes including the fdpca and gramm leach bliley
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“Cybersleuthing”June 2015
Federal Statutes including the FDPCA and Gramm Leach Bliley
Limits
Persons:◦ Name and/or Address for Service of Process◦ Assets to enforce a judgment◦ Information on clients, opposing parties,
witnesses, experts Criminal backgrounds Civil cases General information
Why?
Owner identities Agent for service Financial stability/assets
Businesses
Government sites—Free, but some limits for online searching
Private sites—Limited information free—but largely fee-based◦ Genealogy sites especially popular
Membership usually required
“cybersleuthing”
WestlawNext
Westlaw/WestlawNext
View Westlaw Directory
Westlaw Classic
Value of Property Foreclosure Information Ownership of Property/liens
Information sometimes needed for litigation◦ Who do you sue◦ Is it worth it to sue
Assessor’s Office (Tax records) Recorder’s Office (ownership/liens) Private sites (value)
Real Estate Records
Search Systems (http://www.searchsystems.net)
Portico http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/assessors.html
SCCounty: https://www.sccassessor.org
Real Estate Assessor’s Offices
SC County—Online searching http://www.clerkrecordersearch.org/
◦ Official documents◦ Need grantor/grantee or APN (get from tax
assessor records)
Recorder’s Office
www.unclaimed.org www.Missingmoney.com http://www.uspto.gov/ (Patents,
trademarks)
Locating Other Personal Property
Google (also images, groups, blogs) Yahoo Bing Pipl.com Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/ Yippy (http://www.yippy.com/) DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/) BRB Publications (
http://brbpublications.com/freeresources/pubrecsitesStates.aspx)
Personal InformationGeneral Sites
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com www.blackbookonline.info
For phone and address◦ Anywho.com◦ Whitepages.com
Cont.
Make sure they are still alive!◦ Social Security Death Index (google) or
https://familysearch.org/search www.birthdatabase.com www.whitepages.com Telephone Number,
address, reverse directory, and map to address
www.zabasearch.com Address & Map
Investigating People
California:◦ http://kepler.sos.ca.gov◦ www.ptsearch.sos.ca.gov (search for ebay)◦ Miscellaneous licensing sites
Federal◦ EDGAR (SEC) <http://www.sec.gov/>
Business Information
http://www.brbpublications.com/prs/searchfirms.aspx
BRB Publications—Paid Resources
www.uspto.gov www.copyright.gov www.sec.gov www.hhs.gov
Government Agencies
Government Sites:◦ Pacer.gov (federal court documents)◦ State courts (California not centralized)◦ Recorded documents (by county in California)◦ Agency Sites
EDGAR (SEC) <http://www.sec.gov/> Sec’y of State, CA< http://www.sos.ca.gov/>
http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/
◦ Various Licensing Agencies (Medical, Legal, Contractor etc.
Internet Sites
Need to register◦ Free◦ May need credit card◦ Information from all the federal courts
Dockets Documents Case name search
◦ Let’s Search for Barry Bonds
http://www.pacer.gov/
Courts.ca.gov—has link to all counties◦ Under Courts on homepage
◦ Also information statewide on appellate/supreme court
◦ Santa Clara County—online information Civil cases: http://www.sccaseinfo.org/
Other Counties: Domain Web (often a fee)
State Courts
