It’s 11:00 p.m., Do You Know Where Your Car Is? Chances Are, Someone Does!

How Is Arizona Using License Plate Readers or License Plate Recognition (LPR)? One of the more remarkable tools now available to Arizona law enforcement and private investigators is the result of new License Plate Recognition (“LPR”) technology. Photographs and videos of vehicles taken in public locations are then paired with …

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Time For Change: Urge the Pima County Sheriff’s Department to Implement Name-Based Records Searches

As many of you know, I have owned and operated Inter-State Investigative Services in Tucson for over 20 years. During that time, I have become intimately familiar with law enforcement standards for the disclosure of public records not just in Southern Arizona but throughout the country. In my experience, the …

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Arizona Public Records Laws Changes? Not So Fast.

As Tucson and Phoenix private investigators, our livelihood depends in large part on continued access to public records. Fortunately for private investigators and other professions that rely on this access, maintaining a transparent government is a founding principle of this nation. Finding an old court case, police report, department memo or …

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