Oklahoma Private Investigators Association (OPIA)

July 28, 2007
Best Western Hotel
Stillwater, OK
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Investigative & Security Professional Association of Georgia (ISPAG)

November 16, 17, 2007
Quality Inn & Suites Convention Center
McDonough, GA

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South Carolina Association of Legal Investigators (SCALI)

October 7-8, 2007
Embassy Suites
Greenville, SC
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Florida Association of Private Investigators (FAPI)

July 28, 2007
Holiday Inn Select Resort at the Orlando International Airport
5750 T.G. Lee Blvd, Orlando, FL 32822
1-407-851-6400 or 1-800-972-2590

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Two men, including a former police offer at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), have today been found guilty of illegally bugging phones and hacking into computers.

Their work was carried out for Active Investigation Services (AIS), where they arranged for phone lines and computer networks to be monitored on behalf of clients between 1999 and 2004 at a cost of thousands of pounds.

Former officer Scott Gelsthorpe, 32, from Kettering was convicted at Southwark crown court of two counts of conspiracy to cause unauthorised modification of computer material and one count of conspiracy to intercept communications unlawfully.
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Insurance cheats and philandering tourists keep investigators plenty busy

It’s nearly 1 a.m. on a Thursday morning when the young blond woman knocks on her boss’s hotel room door. She enters and quickly slips from view.

But not quickly enough. TruthFinder Investigations LLC’s private investigators get the incriminating photos and break the news to the man’s distraught wife. The proof was the culmination of two days of surveillance of “a high-profile person from out-of-state.”

From limo tails to hotel-room stakeouts, the man’s every move was followed from the moment he stepped off the plane two days earlier at McCarran International Airport.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport wants to hire a private investigator to check into claims of sexual abuse by priests.

The diocese filed bankruptcy last fall after facing a growing number of sex abuse lawsuits and losing a decision in a jury trial. Since then, more complaints of abuse have been reported and the diocese is seeking permission from the bankruptcy court to hire a private investigator to look into them.

In the motion, the diocese said it doesn’t have staff trained to handle the complaints.
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Alberta’s privacy commissioner will investigate whether any rules were violated when the Energy and Utilities Board hired undercover investigators to keep an eye on angry landowners.

The landowners are upset over a proposed 500-kilovolt power line between Edmonton and Calgary.

Board spokesman Davis Sheremata says they welcome the privacy review to help clear the air.

Public access to regulatory hearings in Rimbey was restricted in April after a woman took a swing at a lawyer when a microphone was turned off and a man roughed up a security guard.

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The Save Happy Valley Coalition wants a private investigation company prosecuted for hiring spies to infiltrate it.

Solid Energy hired Thompson & Clark Investigations, which then paid a student to join the Happy Valley group and spy on it from within.

Spokesperson Frances Mountier says neither Ryan Paterson-Rouse nor Somali Young, who were hired by the company, were registered or licensed investigators.
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Council officers want to resume paying private investigators to have sex in illegal brothels as part of gathering evidence in the bid to shut them.

Officers at the council say it is the only option because police and the State Government have abandoned enforcement action against illegal brothels.

Councils have been left to shut down illegal brothels using planning laws after police effectively stopped enforcement action.

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