Guide to Search Civil Court Cases Like an Pro
In this post, we are going to discuss how to search court records, specifically relating to civil lawsuits.
(If you are interested in reading more about how to conduct a criminal background check like an expert, check out our previous post.)
I consider court records one of the most important and underutilized resources in an investigator’s arsenal. They are open source (anyone can access them), they are based on factual data, they can provide an intimate picture of an individual or a business and there are millions of data points (millions of cases are filed each year).
As recently as 15 years ago, the only way to search court records was by physically going to each court and searching the records either on a computer terminal or in bound books. Since the late 1990s, however, records have been computerized with increasing regularity, and the individual courts are putting their records on the Internet.
This is not true for every court, unfortunately. Many courts (probably most courts) in the United States cannot be publicly accessed on the Internet and, in some cases, still require a trip down to the court (yes, this is 2019).
This post is meant to give you a broad overview of …read more
Source:: Pry-Eye
