Allen Morris Investigations provides licensed investigative research for clients who need verified facts rather than unexplained search results. The practice serves attorneys, insurance professionals, employers, businesses, fiduciaries, and private individuals throughout California and Arizona.
Every engagement begins with the same two questions: what do you actually need to know, and is there a lawful purpose for obtaining it. Once those are settled, the work is scoped in writing, conducted under license, and delivered as a written report that states what was found, what was not found, and how much weight each source deserves.
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Work is accepted on an individual matter basis or under an ongoing arrangement for firms and carriers with recurring volume.
Structured, documented interviews of witnesses, claimants, employees, subjects, family members, and subject matter experts. Interviewing is the core discipline of this practice, and it is the service most often retained after someone else has already spoken to the parties.
Interviews are conducted under trauma informed protocols when the subject matter calls for them, and the resulting summaries are written to be read by someone who was not in the room.
Research assembled for a defined purpose and interpreted in context, rather than delivered as a raw database printout with no explanation. Scope is built around the decision you are trying to make.
Findings are reported with their limits stated plainly. A record that does not appear is not the same as a record that does not exist, and the report says which situation applies.
Scope note. Background investigations are conducted for litigation, insurance, probate, business due diligence, and other lawful purposes. This firm does not provide background reports used to decide whether to hire, promote, reassign, or retain an employee or applicant. Those reports are regulated as consumer reports under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act, and they should be obtained from a consumer reporting agency that operates under those statutes. Workplace investigations into suspected misconduct are a separate matter and are handled through the workplace investigations practice.
A documented review of publicly available online activity, prepared with preservation and authentication in mind so the material holds up when someone challenges it later.
These reports are produced without pretexting, without connection or friend requests, and without ever asking any person for account credentials. Only material a member of the public could view is collected. As with background investigations, social media reports are not provided for hiring, promotion, or retention screening.
Locating people connected to a legal, probate, business, or personal matter, and verifying that the person located is in fact the right person.
Identity is confirmed before an address is reported. A confident answer that turns out to be the wrong individual costs more than a slower answer that is correct.
Matters involving a vulnerable or estranged adult, approached carefully and with the whole situation in view.
Each matter is assessed at intake for lawful purpose, safety concerns, privacy, the leads actually available, and the real possibility that the person has chosen not to be found. That last consideration is discussed openly with the client before any work begins.
Intelligence research supporting insurance defense, civil litigation, business decisions, and due diligence, including the relationship mapping that isolated record searches do not produce.
Every engagement produces a written report, not a verbal summary and not a file of unexplained printouts. Each report states the question presented, the sources examined, what was found, what could not be found and why, and the limits of each source relied upon. Exhibits are labeled, dated, and referenced in the text.
Reports are written so they can be handed directly to counsel, a carrier, a court, a board, or a family without being rewritten first.
Allen Morris Investigations holds California Private Investigator License No. 27033 and Arizona Private Investigator Agency License No. 1829951.
Licensing matters, and so does purpose. Certain records and certain methods are restricted by the reason for the search rather than by whether the information can be obtained. Every engagement is screened at intake, and any request that cannot be carried out lawfully is declined in writing. Clients are told why, and where possible are told what lawful alternative exists.
Yes. Private investigators are licensed and regulated by the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. A licensed investigator may lawfully conduct records research, interviews, surveillance in public places, and related fact finding. There are real limits on methods and on the purposes for which certain records may be obtained, and those limits are respected here.
No. Attorneys retain this firm frequently, and many matters come directly from businesses, insurers, fiduciaries, and private individuals. What is required is a lawful purpose for the research, not a lawyer.
An online service returns whatever a database contains, including stale records, mismatched identities, and entries belonging to someone else with a similar name. A background investigation verifies identity first, works from primary sources where they are available, and explains what the findings mean and how much confidence each one supports.
No. Reports used to decide whether to hire, promote, reassign, or retain someone are consumer reports under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act. Those statutes carry specific disclosure, authorization, accuracy, and adverse action obligations, and California courts have confirmed that a technical violation alone supports statutory damages without any showing of actual harm. That work belongs with a consumer reporting agency built to comply with it, and you will be referred to one. A workplace investigation into suspected misconduct is a different matter and is handled through this firm’s workplace investigations practice.
No. Only publicly available material is reviewed. This firm does not use false identities, does not send connection requests to gain access, and does not ask any person for their login credentials. A report that depends on improperly obtained material is worth very little when it is challenged.
Most people can be located. Some cannot, and some should not be contacted even when they can be located. Realistic expectations are set at intake, and if a matter is unlikely to succeed you will be told before you spend money on it.
A straightforward locate or records search often resolves within several business days. Interviews, multi party research, and missing person matters take longer and depend on availability and record access. A timeline is provided in writing with the scope, before the work begins.
Yes. Consultations are confidential, and the existence of an engagement is not disclosed to third parties. Where a matter is handled through counsel, work is performed in coordination with counsel and their direction on privilege.
Describe the situation in a short conversation and you will receive a direct assessment of whether investigative research will help, what it would involve, and what it would cost. If the answer is that you do not need an investigator, you will be told that too.
Call or text (949) 573-4624Email: support@allenmorrispi.comServing Orange County, the Inland Empire, greater Southern California, and Arizona.
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