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Peeping Tom Legislation Will Affect PIs

WILMINGTON, NC - A bill has been introduced in the General Assembly in North Carolina to address a loophole in the Peeping Tom law. Right now, the law excludes licensed PIs from the Peeping Tom law. However, the new bill, which is sponsored Julia Boseman, will ban PIs from taping individuals in their homes and in other spaces where privacy can reasonably be expected. Boseman notes that she became concerned about the current law after reading of a case in which a PI videotaped a person through a curtained bedroom window.

Louisiana Bill Could Influence PI Businesses

BATON ROUGE, LA - Senate Bill 29, introduced by Sen. Neil Riser, R-Columbia, is of interest to PIs in the area. The bill proposes a new piece of legislation known as the "Louisiana Anti-Caller ID Spoofing Act." The law would specifically address a service that disguises voices and caller IDs. The service allows users to buy a card that allows callers to fake caller IDs and to disguise their voice. Riser notes that the service can easily be used by fraudsters and criminals. Under the proposed legislation, it would be illegal for anyone to alter caller ID information or to insert fake caller ID information.

Will Alabama PIs Be Regulated?

MONTGOMERY, AL - Legislators in Alabama have been reluctant to regulate the PI industry in the state. In 2004, The Alabama Private Investigators Association asked the legislature to establish a testing and licensing system for the industry, but so far no such system has been implemented. A new high-profile case may change that. Michael Anthony Allen of Robertsdale has been indicted on a number of felony convictions, which date back to his employment as a PI at Baldwin Legal Investigations. Allen is charged with stealing more than $23,000 from the PI company. Now, some critics point out that if the state PI industry were better regulated, Allen would not have qualified for his job. Records show that Allen tried to secure a PI license in Georgia in 2004, but was denied.

PI May be Sued Over GPS Device

COLUMBUS, OH - Teej Cummins plans to sue a PI who installed a GPS device on her car. When Cummins was in a store, a stranger alerted her to some unusual activity around her parked car. The stranger said that someone had attached a device to her car and had driven off. Concerned that it might be a harmful device or even bomb, Cummins called the police. It was discovered that the device was a GPS device installed by a PI hired to investigate a job injury claim Cummins had made. PIs note that the device is legal and makes surveillance safer and easier. There is currently no law in Ohio that would protect residents from GPS devices.

Courtney Love Hires PIs

NEW YORK, NY - Courtney Love, the widow of late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain is hiring a bevy of PIs to look into alleged embezzlement and theft of the Cobain estate. According to investigators working on the case, the estate is missing $500 million in real estate and $30 million in cash, allegedly as a result of theft.

PI Helps to Exonerate Jailed Man

AUSTIN, TX - Private investigator Les Johnson helped to prove David Lozano's innocence. Lozano had a shootout with a police officer, and was accused of firing first and attempted capital murder. Johnson used many tactics to clear Lozano's name, including putting pegs in the bullet holes attached to strings to figure out the trajectory of the bullets fired by the police officer. "I thought this guy is telling the truth," said Johnson of Lozano. He helped to get the attempted capital murder case dismissed and Lozano freed from jail.

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