You can do federal and state inmate searches on the inmate search and  locator page on skipease.com.  Links to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate search / locator as well as links to state by state Department of Corrections sites can be found on Skipease at Inmate Search.

PI Mall is one of the internet’s largest resources for private investigator news, tools, books and other private investigation information.  You can visit the PI Mall site at PI Mall .

Property tax and county assessor records can provide great information when doing asset searches as well as people searches.  Assessor records vary by state, county and city, but they often provide fairly reliable information on property ownership; assessed property values and taxes along with the property owner’s name and mailing address.

As a result property tax and county assessor records can often be used to locate property assets as well as find information for contacting a person.  State, city and county assessor sites can now be found for each state on the Skipease site under the Public Records section.  Click on the state link that you want city / county assessor listings for, then choose the ‘Property Tax Assessors’ link for that state to view the available listings.  Some city / county assessor sites have free online searchable databases, while others list phone and address contact information.  Please understand that most of these sites have disclaimer policies posted regarding the reliability of the public record information available on their sites.  In addition, Skipease accepts no responsiblity for the information provided by any of the sites that we link to and your use(s) of the information found on these sites is soley your responsibility.

You can access the state public record listings at State & Local Public Records  .  Choose a state and then choose the ‘Property Tax Assessors’ link for that state to find a scroll menu of available sites.  You can use the bookmark link above the Google Search boxes to add the page to your favorites menu on your browser for future access.  New city / county assessor sites will be added as they become available.

There is an informative article on Wired News about spyware.  Spyware is considered malicious software ( malware ) that can do numerous things from delivering targeted pop up ads to recording web search and surfing habits of users, including recording keystrokes, passwords and credit card numbers of PC owners. 

The article details the problems that individuals and businesses face when PC’s are infected with spyware; how to detect a spyware intrusion and ways of dealing with the spyware problem. 

Business managers should educate themselves on the security threats that spyware poses for their operations and work to educate their employees on the threat, especially in departments where any significant amount of work is done online.

You can read the entire article at Spyware: What You Need to Know by Kim Zetter @ wired.com.

Some privacy advocates are uneasy about a Missouri Department of Trasportation plan to monitor traffic congestion on state roads and highways by tracking drivers’ cell phones.  According to an article by David A. Lieb –

A congestion alert is issued, automatically updating electronic road signs and Web sites, and dispatching text messages to mobile phones and auto dashboards.

While similar projects are already in use in Baltimore and plans to use this technology are in the works for Virginia and Georgia, the Missouri cell phone tracking plan will be the largest of its kind.  You can read the full article by David Lieb at Using cell phone traffic to map road congestion @ suntimes.com. 

From an Associated Press article published on CNN.com -

Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam expressed concern Saturday about a free mapping program from Google Inc., warning it could help terrorists by providing satellite photos of potential targets.

You can read the entire article at India Warns: Google Terror Threat on CNN.com

Looking for a new job?  Simply Hired is a new meta job search site that searches thousands of job boards, classified ads and company sites at once.  At the time of this posting, the Simply Hired search had indexed over 4.5 million jobs from thousands of sites.  Simply Hired allows you to job search by keyword and location or browse the directory of jobs by area and job specialty.  You can access the job search site at Simply Hired .

Ralph Thomas from pimall.com has published a convenient overview of the laws on recording conversations in all 50 US states.  The information presented contains Federal and state recording laws and defines the legal terminology associated with these laws.  You can read the article at Covertly Recording Telephone Conversations .

Today I received a request for an online US Federal Bankruptcy Court locator.  So far the best resource we have for locating Federal Bankruptcy Courts as well as other Federal Courts is located at US Courts – Court Links .  You can search by court type, city, state, zip code and county.

Other Federal public record sources can be found on Skipease  at Federal Public Records Links .

Thanks and good luck with your people searches and public records searches.

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FCW.com has an interesting article on identity management – verifying that employees and others are who they say they are and verifying that they have the background they claim to have. 

Identity management falls under the process and procedures of pre-employment background checks, screening and investigations.  Proper identity management is needed for secure operations at any organization and requires effective use of Human Resource and other areas. 

From the article:

Identity management answers the questions of whether people are who they say they are and whether they have the proper affiliation or criteria to do certain tasks, James Kerins, senior vice president for information solutions at LexisNexis Special Services, said at the Information Technology Association of America’s Identity Management Conference last week.

You can read more at Experts give identity management advice .