French Maids Make Photo Sharing Simple

One thing every experienced investigator and seasoned trial lawyer recognizes is the truth in the old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words." (And in many cases, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars...)

But, as many of you know, we've been swamped the past few weeks tweaking our new product line for release (this Wednesday!). So for this week's Bulletin topic - photo sharing - we've asked for help from our delightful, insightful and totally knowledgeable friends over at French Maid TV.

They explain it all in their above clip so we won't go over it again but as we cautioned in our July 2, 2007 Bulletin, be sure to remove all metadata (hidden data such as reversible authoring notes, embedded dates...) from your files - including photos and vids - before sharing them with others for whatever necessary reasons. (You can retrieve the 7/2/07 Metadata Bulletin in the right column on this page our just drop us a line at bulletin@beaconbulletin.com. Note "Metadata" in the subject line.)

Please enjoy the French Maids as they, in their inimitable style, explain the ins and outs of sharing that most powerful of negotiating tools - photographs. (Pillow fight notwithstanding...)

BNI Investigators: Street smart; Web savvy.

Be safe,

Lina

He Said; She Said; We Should: Interview Intake Form

As we are all well aware, federal and state laws prohibit prospective employers from asking certain questions that are not related to the job they are hiring for. Questions should not be used to find out personal information. In a nutshell, employers should not be asking about your race, gender, religion, marital status, age, disabilities, ethnic background, country of origin, sexual preferences or age.

During the witness statement interview, however, investigators are not looking to hire the witness but rather to find out just as much personal information as possible. As we mentioned in a recent Bulletin, witnesses can make, break or mitigate a trial lawyer's case. It can take several years for a case to reach the point of serious negotiation or trial. The issue may then be finding a relocated witness. For that reason, the investigative specialist needs to gather as much personal information from the witness as possible during the initial interview. (We do caution the interviewer to employ a bit of tact as most of the fields on the Interview Intake Form can be filled in without direct questioning of the witness.)


BNI Investigators: Street smart; Web savvy.

The Dog Ate My Files: Electronic Data Recovery

The new federal rule 26(a)(1)(B), effective Dec.1, 2006, requires parties to provide, without discovery request, "a copy of, or a description by category and location of, all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that are in the possession custody, and control of the party and that the disclosing party may use to support its claims or defenses, unless solely for impeachment."

That sounds straightforward enough; the issue may be that ESI (Electronically Shared Information) can come from many different sources and can even appear to have been lost! This can occur for several reasons:

1. Computers come from the manufacturer with a Hardware Protected Area (HPA), which is generally used to store vendor, diagnostic and recovery utilities. This area will not show up in a normal search.

2. Hard drives can come with a Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) which is similar to an HPA. Hard drives commonly flag areas which have bad clusters, or spots on the drive which are corrupted. An area with important data can inadvertently be manually flagged as being "bad" and the operating system will ignore that area. These files will not show up during a normal search.

Solutions:

Easiest:

1. Click on your Start button on your pc.
2. Then on Search.
3. Click on searching "all files and folders".
4. Next, click on "Advanced Options"
5. Finally, ensure "Check Hidden Files" is optioned.

More Complicated:

1. Go To:
www.octanesoft.com/data_recovery_free_edition.html
2. Follow instructions.

3. It's FREE!!

Worst Case Scenario

1. Call us for the contact info of a really good geek.

BNI Investigators: Street smart: Web savvy.

Be safe,

Lina

CamStat - Public & Private Cameras in NYC

A fixed outdoor camera in New York City capturing the big steam explosion of several weeks ago.

Sometimes you just want to know what is around you and feel a sense of security... especially if it is an area of Manhattan you don't often frequent. It's easy to find the official NYC DOT camera locations online; not so the private cameras - online or on site. Over the past several years, our BNI researchers have developed an exclusive compilation "CamStat/NYC" which identifies - by map and by text - all DOT, public and private camera locations in each of Manhattan's Community Boards. Over the course of the next few days, we will direct you to a site containing this information and we will have other borough and city maps available shortly. Representative of CamStat is the below camera listings for

Community Board 1, Manhattan.

364 Total Cameras

Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park:
4 globe cameras

South Street and FDR:
1 stationary camera, NW corner

State and Bridge Streets:
2 globe cameras, NE corner

Pearl Street between State and Whitehall Streets:
5 stationary cameras on lamposts, south side

Bridge Street between State and Whitehall Streets:
3 globe cameras, 1 stationary camera, north side

South and Whitehall Streets:
1 stationary camera, SE corner

Pearl and Whitehall Streets:
2 stationary cameras, north and south side

Whitehall and Bridge Streets:
2 globe cameras, NW corner

South Street and Broad Street:
1 stationary camera, NW corner

Water and Broad Streets:
6 stationary cameras, 3 NW corner, 3 NE corner

Bridge and Broad Streets: 2 stationary cameras

Broad Street between Bridge and Pearl Streets:
7 stationary cameras, north side

Pearl and Broad Streets:
2 stationary cameras, NW corner

South Street and Vietnam Veterans Plaza:
1 stationary camera, NW corner

Water Street and Coenties Alley:
1 stationary camera, SE corner

Pearl Street and Coenties Slip:
1 stationary camera, NE corner

Pearl and Hanover Streets:
3 stationary cameras, NE corner

Broadway and Beaver Street:
1 globe camera, SE corner

Broadway and Battery Place:
4 globe cameras, SW corner

Greenwich Street between Battery Place and Morris Street:
1 stationary camera, east side

?Washington Street and Battery Place:
1 rotational camera
Stone Street and Mill Lane:
2 stationary cameras, 1 NW corner, 1 SW corner

South William Street and Mill Lane:
1 stationary camera, SE corner

Water and Old Slip: 1 stationary camera

South Street and Gouverneur Lane:
6 stationary cameras, 5 NW corner, 1 SW corner

Water Street and Gouveneur Lane:
1 stationary camera, NW corner

New Street between Beaver Street and Exchange Place:
7 stationary cameras, 4 east side, 3 west side

Trinity Place between Exchange Alley and Morris Street:
3 stationary cameras

Exchange Place between Broad and William Streets:
2 globe cameras, 2 stationary cameras, north side

Exchange Place and New Street:
5 stationary cameras

Broadway and Exchange Place:
2 stationary cameras, 1 NE corner, 1 NW corner

Trinity Place and Exchange Alley:
2 stationary cameras, 1 NE corner, 1 NW corner

Washington and Joseph P. Ward Streets:
2 stationary cameras, NW corner

West Street between Joseph P. Ward and Rector Street:
1 stationary camera, east side

South End Avenue and West Thames Street:
1 stationary camera

W Thames Street:
5 stationary cameras at Battery Park City Authority building

Trinity Place between Thames and Rector Streets:
1 globe camera, west side

Broad Street between Exchange Place and Wall Street:
2 stationary cameras, west side, 1 globe camera, east side

New Street between Wall Street and Exchange Place:
3 stationary cameras, 2 east side, 1 west side

Rector Street between Trinity Place and Greenwich Street:
3 stationary cameras, north side

Rector Place:
1 stationary camera

Wall Street between Hanover and Pearl Streets:
3 stationary cameras, north side

Hanover Square:
2 stationary cameras

Wall and Pearl Streets:
3 stationary cameras, NW corner

Wall Street between Nassau and William Streets:
1 globe camera

Nassau and Wall Streets:
3 stationary cameras

Wall Street between New and Nassau Streets:
1 stationary camera, south side

Pine Street between William and Pearl Streets:
2 stationary cameras, south side

Pine Street between Nassau and William Streets:
2 stationary cameras, north side

Broadway and Thames Street:
1 stationary camera, NW corner

Thames Street between Broadway and Trinity Place:
2 stationary cameras, south side

Greenwich and Thames Streets:
1 globe camera, NE corner

Greenwich and Albany Streets:
3 stationary cameras

Albany and Washington Streets:
2 stationary cameras

Albany Street between Washington and West Streets:
1 stationary camera, south side

William Street between Cedar and Pine Streets:
1 stationary camera, east side

Washington Street between Albany and Cedar Streets:
3 stationary cameras, east side

Cedar Street between Broadway and Trinity Place:
2 stationary cameras

Cedar Street between Trinity Place and Greenwich Street:
1 stationary camera, south side

Cedar Street between Washington and West Streets:
1 stationary camera

Washington Street between Liberty and Cedar Streets:
1 rotational camera

William and Liberty Streets:
2 stationary cameras, 1 NE corner, 1 SE corner

Liberty Street between William and Nassau Streets:
6 stationary cameras, north side, 1 globe camera, 1 rotational camera, 1 stationary camera, south side

Liberty and Nassau Streets:
2 stationary cameras, SW corner

Liberty Street between Nassau Street and Broadway:
2 stationary cameras, south side

Broadway and Liberty Street:
1 stationary camera, SE corner

Liberty and Trinity Streets:
1 stationary camera

Liberty and Greenwich Streets:
2 stationary cameras, SW corner

Washington and Liberty Streets:
2 stationary cameras

West and Liberty Streets:
1 globe camera

Chase Manhattan Plaza, between Pine and Liberty Streets, and William and Nassau Streets:
4 stationary cameras

William Street between Liberty Street and Maiden Lane:
2 stationary cameras, east side

Nassau Street between Maiden Lane and Liberty Street:
2 stationary cameras, east side

Liberty Place between Maiden Lane and Liberty Street:
1 stationary camera

Pearl Street and Maiden Lane:
2 stationary cameras, NE corner

Maiden Lane between Nassau and William Streets:
10 stationary cameras

Maiden and Nassau Streets:
2 globe cameras, SE corner, 1 stationary camera, NE corner

Fletcher and Water Streets:
2 stationary cameras

Fletcher and Front Streets:
1 rotational camera

Fletcher Street between Water and Front Streets:
1 stationary camera, north side

Fletcher Street between Water and Pearl Streets:
2 stationary cameras, south side

Platt Street between Pearl and Gold Streets:
2 stationary cameras, north side

Gold and Platt Streets:
2 stationary cameras, SW corner

Platt Street between Gold and William Streets:
1 stationary camera

Pearl Street between John and Platt Streets:
2 stationary cameras, west side

William Street between John and Platt Streets:
1 stationary camera

John Street between Cliff and Pearl Streets:
1 stationary camera, north side

John Street between Gold and William Streets:
2 stationary cameras, south side

John and William Streets:
2 stationary cameras, NE corner

John Street between William and Nassau Streets:
4 stationary cameras, south side

John and Nassau Streets:
1 stationary camera, NW corner

Dey Street between Church Street and Broadway:
1 rotational camera, north side

Pearl Street between John and Fulton Streets:
1 stationary camera

Fulton and Nassau Streets:
2 stationary cameras, NW corner

Fulton Street between Broadway and Nassau Street:
1 stationary camera

Fulton Street between Broadway and Church Street:
3 stationary cameras, 2 north side, 1 south side

Nassau Street between Ann and Fulton Streets:
1 stationary camera, east side

Ann and Nassau Streets:
2 stationary cameras, SE corner

Ann Street between Nassau Street and Theatre Alley:
1 stationary camera, south side

Ann Street between Park Row and Theater Alley:
3 stationary cameras, 1 north side, 2 south side

Vesey Street between Church Street and West Broadway:
3 stationary cameras, 1 south side, 2 north side

?Vesey Street and West Broadway:
2 stationary cameras

Vesey Street between West Street and W Broadway:
2 stationary cameras, north side

(7 World Trade Center):
3 stationary cameras, south side

West and Vesey Streets:
4 stationary cameras, SE corner

William Street between Ann and Beekman Streets:
1 stationary camera, west side

Nassau Street between Ann and Beekman Streets:
2 stationary camera, east side

Theater Alley between Beekman and Ann Streets:
3 stationary cameras: 1 west side, 2 east side

Beekman Street between Gold and William Street:
1 stationary camera, south side

Beekman and Nassau Streets:
1 stationary camera

Beekman Street and Park Row:
1 stationary camera

Barclay and Church Streets:
2 stationary cameras, 1 NE corner, 1 SW corner

Barclay Street and W Broadway:
2 stationary cameras, SE corner

Barclay and Washington Streets:
3 stationary cameras, SE corner

Barclay Street between Washington and West Streets:
2 stationary cameras in alley, north side

Park Place between Church Street and Broadway:
1 stationary camera, south side

Park Place between W Broadway and Church Street:
3 stationary cameras, 2 north side, 1 south side

Park Place between Greenwich Street and West Broadway:
3 stationary cameras, north side

Greenwich Street between Park Place and Murray Street:
1 rotational camera, east side

Spruce Street and Park Row:
1 stationary camera, SE corner

Front and Dover Streets:
1 globe camera, 1 stationary camera

Gold and Frankfurt Streets:
1 rotational camera

Murray Street between W Broadway and Greenwich Street:
1 stationary camera, south side

Murray Street between Greenwich and West Streets:
1 rotational camera

Warren and Church Streets:
1 stationary camera

Warren Street between W Broadway and Church Street:
3 stationary, north side

Warren Street between Greenwich Street and W Broadway:
2 stationary cameras, 1 north side, 1 south side

Pearl and Madison Streets:
1 stationary camera, 4 rotational cameras

Pearl Street between Madison Street and Park Row:
5 stationary cameras

Joseph Doherty Court between Park Row and Pearl Street:
6 stationary cameras

Chambers Street between West and Greenwich Streets:
1 rotational camera

Reade Street between Hudson and Greenwich Streets:
2 stationary cameras, north side

Broadway between Reade and Duane Streets:
2 stationary cameras, east side

Duane Street and Cardinal Hayes Place:
16 cameras

Duane Street between Broadway and Elk Street:
1 stationary camera, south side

Duane Street between Hudson Street and W Broadway:
1 stationary camera, north side

Staple Street between Jay and Harrison Streets:
1 stationary camera, west side

Hudson Street between Jay and Harrison Streets:
1 stationary camera

Worth Street between Broadway and Park Row:
1 stationary camera, south side

Lafayette between Franklin and Leonard:
1 stationary camera

W Broadway between Leonard and Franklin:
1 stationary camera

N Moore Street between West and Greenwich Streets:
3 rotational cameras, 1 north side, 2 south side

Harrison and West Streets:
2 stationary cameras

Sixth Avenue and W Broadway:
1 stationary camera

Greenwich Street between N Moore and Beach Streets:
1 rotational camera, west side

West Street between Hubert and N Moore Streets:
3 rotational cameras, east side

York Street between Sixth Avenue and St John's Lane:
1 stationary camera, south side

Ericsson Place and Varick Street: 1 stationary camera

St John's Lane between Ericsson Place and York Street:
2 stationary cameras, east side

Greenwich Street between Hubert and Beach Streets:
2 stationary cameras, 1 east side, 1 west side, 1 rotational camera, west side

Hubert Street between Collister and Greenwich Streets:
2 stationary cameras, 1 north side, 1 south side

Hubert Street between West and Greenwich Streets:
4 rotational cameras, south side, 1 stationary camera, north side

Varick and Laight Street:
2 rotational cameras

Greenwich and Laight Streets:
1 stationary camera

Laight Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets:
1 stationary camera, south side

Vestry and Canal Streets:
3 rotational cameras

Vestry Street between Varick and Hudson Streets:
2 stationary cameras, south side

Washington Street between Vestry and Desbrosses Streets:
1 stationary camera, west side

Watts Street between Greenwich and Canal Streets:
1 stationary camera

Canal Street and Cortlandt Alley:
2 stationary cameras

Canal Street between Washington and Greenwich Streets:
1 stationary camera

Police Plaza:
2 stationary cameras, 1 rotational camera

Chambers Street between Greenwich and Hudson Streets:
1 stationary camera, north side

Pearl Street between Peck Slip and Dover Street:
2 stationary cameras, east side

BNI Investigators: Street smart; Web savvy.

Keep checking this site and www.beaconinfopro.com for the release of CamStat/NYC.