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Investigative Work Product, the Investigator and Admissibility

In legal cases, the need to hire a professional private investigator can often arise. After all, properly acquired investigative findings can shed light on a case and perhaps change the legal strategies for the investigative client, as well as the potential legal...

Bias Has No Place In Investigations

Robert and I are very active in our state and national association for investigations. Part of our involvement consists of helping to raise the standards of our profession and teaching investigators the most important aspects of our profession. We have given...

Utilizing the Investigator’s Input for Effective Strategy

When clients hire investigators, the objective typically is to identify and locate pertinent information, and in some cases to obtain documentation. Fulfilling these objectives, as well as occasionally testifying to the investigator’s findings and documentation in...

Going Beyond the Databases in Social Media Investigations

Databases are a great tool for investigators, paralegals and in-house investigators to find information on their subjects quickly, but is that all that’s out there? There is no such thing as a database that is all-inclusive, or even 100% accurate. There is also a...

Drone Use in Surveillance Investigations – Friend or Foe?

The landscape of how to conduct investigations is ever-changing in the tools available to an investigator. Tools of our trade can be anything from a database that helps us find information or new camaras available in how we gather video documentation in a...

Artificial Intelligence and Investigations – A Perfect Fit?

Artificial Intelligence is a term that’s been getting quite a bit of buzz lately. AI is in the news seemingly every day. It has so rapidly come into the consciousness of humans that it’s made many people feel a sense of FOMO (fear of missing out). Some have already...

Efficiency In Investigations

One of the qualities API emphasizes within our agency is efficiency. I learned about the importance of efficiency as an engineering major at CU-Boulder, and made it a priority to have API be a leader in efficiency. It is no surprise that being efficient allows our...

Looking Out For Your Best Interests

When API was founded in 2006, we did so with the goals of providing clients with the highest quality methods, work product and customer service possible at competitive rates. API realized the only way to meet these objectives was as a fully independent investigative...