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Ain’t Nothing like the Real Thing: Why There’s No Substitute for Primary Sources | 221B Partners

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(And in this case, picking up the phone) As investigators, we often use commercial public record databases as a jumping-off tool when conducting investigations. Their vast reserves of data can help us start to connect the dots efficiently and see more clearly into an investigation. These resources, however, often contain erroneous, limited, or fragmented information, which requires us to go beyond the databases. Here’s a recent example of 221B getting behind what a commercial database described as a “real-time arrest record.” This anecdote also underscores the limitations of a court search in an active criminal case and illustrates how there is sometimes no substitute for information you can learn by simply picking up the phone and asking questions of a court clerk. Our client’s corporate security division conducted a criminal history search on a subject of interest, part of which consisted of running the subject’s name through a public ...

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