most of their time verifying facts for their particular investigations. Whether it be conducting background checks, performing surveillance, or tracking down suspects. Their employers often are insurance companies or attorneys, although individuals will also commonly employ their services. It is for these clients that private investigators endure some of their most tedious assignments. Unfortunately, divorce and infidelity are rampant in our society, and evidence must be obtained to prove so in a court of law. Paranoid parents will want to watch their children's every move, however, they lack the time and resources to do it themselves, so they hire an investigator to secretly track their son or daughter's footsteps.
             Background checking is a popular task for an investigator, and it is becoming increasingly commercialized. One can find background checking services on the internet, claiming to find everything on an individual for as little as $50. Our society is changing and security is becoming a much bigger concern. There will always be a market for identity and fact verification within the governmental and private sectors.
             Recently the federal organization, the office of personnel management (OPM), privatized their federal investigations. The move was so incredibly successful that it earned a spot as a finalist in the prestigious 'Innovations in American Government Awards Program.' From 1996 to 2000 the employee-owned company saved $65 million for the American taxpayer. The United States Investigative Service (USIS) is now the operating name for the investigative unit. It marks the first private company to be birthed from a federal program. Its employees still have access to the FBI's database, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). The FBI grants access to OPM, and has agreed to continue providing OPM with information under the assumption that OPM may freely distribute this info...