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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“Do You Only Work For Attorneys?” & Other Common Questions

“Do you only work for attorneys?” While many of our clients are attorneys and we excel at criminal defense investigations, some of our most rewarding and complex cases come from private citizens who find us online or by word of mouth. Pardon the cliché, but there is truly no case …

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Authenticating Social Media Evidence: Preserving “Distinct Characteristics” With Metadata

How can digital evidence be authenticated and preserved? The advent of social media has changed our conception of the “smoking gun” – the piece of evidence that can make or break a case. These days, key pieces of evidence are more likely to be found displayed online than hidden amongst …

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Social Media Investigations

Social media, webmail, website data and Youtube video have been very common sources of information and evidence in criminal and civil litigation. Even wise prospective employers review a potential new employee’s social media postings as a routine course of a pre-employment background investigation. Keeping up with the fast paced changes …

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Non-Capital Mitigation is Working

Are you looking for a more effective mitigation resource to help bring your cases to smarter, more efficient and equitable resolutions?  Who isn’t?! Well, that’s where the efficacy of mitigation, and our prowess with it, comes in. Inter-state Investigative Services in, Arizona, Colorado and across the United States provide successful …

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