Denver Private Investigator’s Blog

Text messages sent by public officials on their personal devices discussing public business are not exempt from record requests.

That was the ruling from a Colorado court, the latest in a string of court findings confirming that text messages sent by government employees on personal cellphones are not outside the statutory definition of “public records” just because they didn’t show up on a government server.

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The mother of one of Denver’s most esteemed personal injury lawyers died after being runover by a truck. For Kyle Bachus, it was a tragic turn. After spending decades representing injury victims, he became one himself. To help guide others going through similar experiences, he wrote a book, Unthinkable. In this post, we asked Kyle for some insights he gained from the personal tragedy he had to ...

A U.S. court this month sentenced an Israeli private detective to six years in prison for organizing global hacking campaigns against thousands of people including climate change activists and critics of German company Wirecard.

Aviram Azari, a former policeman detained in the United States since 2019, pleaded guilty last year to three counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit hacking and aggravated identity theft.