Surveillance Investigations
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Surveillance is conducted when there are reasonable grounds of suspicious or fraudulent activity, and when other methods have been utilized but have found to be ineffective. The person requesting the surveillance should weigh and balance the need of the surveillance to the privacy interests of the subject of the Investigation.
Information Requested to Initiate Surveillance:
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California Penal Code section 637.7 prohibits individuals from using electronic tracking devices to determine the location or movement of a person. However, an important exception allows registered owners, lessors, or lessees of vehicles to use electronic tracking devices to track their own vehicles
Video Documentation:
What is GPS?
The Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers that we use for investigative surveillance are different from the GPS devices on your dashboard or windshield that makes sure you don’t get lost. These investigative GPS trackers show you exactly where a vehicle, asset, or person is located and will track and document the historical position of that vehicle, asset or person over time. Most GPS Trackers have software that allows Investigators to generate a detailed GPS Tracking Log of the vehicles historical location(s).
GPS tracking law is determined at the State level and each State’s laws are typically different. It’s part of the Private Investigator’s responsibility to know the law and ensure that the device is being used in compliance with the current law. Both the client and the Investigator could be liable if the GPS tracker is not used appropriately.
California Penal Code section 637.7 prohibits "individuals from using electronic tracking devices to determine the location or movement of a person with the exception of registered owners, lessors, or lessees of vehicles to use electronic tracking devices to track their own vehicles."
We will require the client to show proof of registration and must sign a written authorization that grants the Investigator permission to install the tracking device.
Video Documentation:
- We will document and videotape the subject’s activities and whereabouts, whenever it is reasonable to do so, with Sony Hard Disk Drive (HDD), HDR and 4K video camcorders;
- When we transfer the HDD video onto our computers, we will need to ensure your capability to view the High Definition Video in our format. Our video is formatted in MPEG or WMV format, uploaded onto a file-sharing website, like Dropbox and a link is send to you via text or email, shortly after following the surveillance.
- All Videos will cite the date and time images were secured onto our HDD video camcorders to record the continuity and integrity of evidence for Court presentation.
- We will provide a typewritten report of the surveillance, with embedded screenshot images from the video, and attached video links, as exhibits.
- We will maintain a copy of the original digital video footage and image/s for a period of seven years and/or until required by law.
What is GPS?
The Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers that we use for investigative surveillance are different from the GPS devices on your dashboard or windshield that makes sure you don’t get lost. These investigative GPS trackers show you exactly where a vehicle, asset, or person is located and will track and document the historical position of that vehicle, asset or person over time. Most GPS Trackers have software that allows Investigators to generate a detailed GPS Tracking Log of the vehicles historical location(s).
GPS tracking law is determined at the State level and each State’s laws are typically different. It’s part of the Private Investigator’s responsibility to know the law and ensure that the device is being used in compliance with the current law. Both the client and the Investigator could be liable if the GPS tracker is not used appropriately.
California Penal Code section 637.7 prohibits "individuals from using electronic tracking devices to determine the location or movement of a person with the exception of registered owners, lessors, or lessees of vehicles to use electronic tracking devices to track their own vehicles."
We will require the client to show proof of registration and must sign a written authorization that grants the Investigator permission to install the tracking device.
