Royal Palm Investigations
Background Investigations in Florida
Choose the level of research that fits your matter. Royal Palm Investigations provides organized, source-aware reporting for attorneys, businesses, fiduciaries, and private clients who need more than an unreviewed consumer search.
Investigator-led reporting
Clear scope. Documented findings. Practical reporting.
A background investigation should match the reason for the search. A straightforward matter may call for commercial investigative database research and investigator review. Matters involving online identity, email or username associations, exposed credentials, or account discovery require a broader digital scope. Litigation, due diligence, or a higher-risk decision may require direct court, government, local-record, news, archive, and public-record research.
Each assignment is reviewed before acceptance. The final scope may be adjusted when the subject has an extensive address history, multiple identities, incomplete identifiers, records in several jurisdictions, or research questions that require deeper documentation and analysis.
Background investigation options
Three levels of investigative intelligence
No two matters carry the same questions or risk. RPI reviews the subject, purpose, identifiers, geography, sources, and expected deliverable before confirming scope and pricing.
Professional Background Intelligence
Commercial investigative database research organized and reviewed by a licensed investigator.
A consolidated one-subject background investigation prepared from public, proprietary, commercial investigative-database, and identity-linking information available for the approved purpose. RPI reviews the results for identity conflicts, context, obvious inconsistencies, and report usability.
Identity and contact research
- Current and historical names and known aliases
- Date-of-birth and death-record indicators when available
- Current and historical addresses
- Telephone numbers, email addresses, and contact indicators
- Identity identifiers used to distinguish the correct subject
Relationships, assets, and record indicators
- Possible relatives, associates, neighbors, and employers
- Real-property, assessment, foreclosure, and eviction indicators
- Vehicle and driver’s-license information when available
- Business affiliations, corporate records, DBAs, UCC indicators, and professional licenses
- Bankruptcy, lien, judgment, criminal-history, court-record, and public-facing web indicators when available
Comprehensive Background Intelligence
Professional intelligence plus digital-footprint, email, username, account, open-source, deep-web, and lawful exposure research.
Includes Professional Background Intelligence and adds expanded digital-identity, account-association, exposure, and open-source research. The work is designed to connect identifiers and public digital activity to the correct subject while documenting uncertainty and lawful-access limits.
Digital footprint and identifiers
- Associated email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, user IDs, names, and locations
- Internet and platform account discovery tied to supplied or developed identifiers
- Registration indicators, public profile URLs, account names, and profile metadata
- Domains, URLs, companies, and other identifiers connected to the subject
- Account status, activity, or last-seen indicators when available
Open-source and lawful exposure research
- Deep-web and open-source research relevant to the approved matter
- Broader lawful dark-web research when relevant to the approved matter
- Historical data-breach and credential-exposure indicators when lawfully available
- Exposed historical passwords or password hashes when lawfully available
- Public social profiles, websites, news, litigation references, and other relevant findings
- Cross-referencing of digital indicators with the Professional-level identity research
Deep-Dive Investigative Intelligence
Comprehensive intelligence plus advanced search, primary-source records, archives, public-records requests, deeper social-media research, documentation, and investigator analysis.
Includes Comprehensive Background Intelligence and adds research designed around the case questions—not only the subject’s identifiers. This level is appropriate when counsel, a business, fiduciary, or private client needs deeper documentation, direct-source work, historical context, or investigator analysis across multiple sources and jurisdictions.
Advanced research and public records
- Advanced Boolean and structured search research
- Direct court, clerk, government, regulatory, and official-record searches
- Civil lawsuits naming the subject as plaintiff or defendant
- Criminal cases, charges, filing dates, dispositions, and sentencing information when public
- Case numbers, filing dates, case types, parties, attorneys, status, and docket activity
- Public-records requests when appropriate to the approved scope
- News, historical web, document, and archive research
- Relevant deeds, mortgages, liens, releases, recorded judgments, and other public records
Documentation and investigator analysis
- Deeper social-media and public-platform research tied to the investigative questions
- Judgments, final orders, dismissals, and other material case outcomes
- Eviction, foreclosure, probate, family, traffic, and other relevant public cases when applicable
- Available complaints, petitions, motions, orders, judgments, and docket documents when accessible
- Cross-source chronology, relationship, inconsistency, and issue analysis
- Documentation of sources, limitations, unresolved questions, and supported investigative observations
Availability and scope
Not every category produces a result for every subject, and database indicators are not the same as independently verified records. Direct county, court, government, archive, and public-record searches are selected from the subject’s relevant address history, the stated purpose, and the investigative questions. Record systems vary, and some dockets, case types, images, archives, or documents may be restricted, unavailable online, delayed, or subject to access fees. Additional jurisdictions, certified copies, rush work, public-record fees, and unusually complex subjects may require a revised scope approved before work proceeds.
Consultation and scope
What happens before the investigation begins
Scope and pricing are confirmed after RPI understands the lawful purpose, subject identifiers, relevant jurisdictions, research questions, timing, and expected deliverable.
Consult
Describe the matter, intended use, subject, questions, timing, and the decision or case the research must support.
Identify
Provide sufficient identifiers to distinguish the correct subject and reduce avoidable mismatches.
Scope
RPI selects the appropriate service level, sources, jurisdictions, documentation, and deliverable.
Authorize
The client reviews the confirmed scope, pricing, terms, lawful purpose, and any required documentation.
Investigate
After RPI accepts the assignment and the required authorization is complete, research and reporting begin.
Research areas
Information that may be examined
The research performed depends on the approved service level, stated purpose, available identifiers, relevant jurisdictions, and records that are lawfully accessible.
Identity and address history
Names, known aliases, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and other identifiers used to distinguish the correct subject.
Court and clerk records
Relevant civil, criminal, probate, family, traffic, official-record, and local clerk research when included in the approved Deep-Dive scope and available through the applicable jurisdiction.
Criminal-history research
Florida research and research in other identified states where the subject maintained residences when records, identifiers, lawful access, and the approved scope support the search.
Business and professional ties
Entity affiliations, corporate records, DBAs, UCC indicators, professional licenses, employers, and other case-relevant public-record or database associations.
Digital identity and exposure
Online accounts, digital-footprint indicators, username and email associations, public profiles, open-source intelligence, and lawful exposure research included in Comprehensive and Deep-Dive matters.
Case-specific primary sources
Government, court, news, archives, social media, public-records requests, and other sources selected according to the lawful purpose, geography, case type, and questions the report must address.
Common uses
Background research matched to the matter
The appropriate scope follows the client’s lawful purpose and the questions that must be answered—not a one-size-fits-all checklist.
Litigation support
Developing documented background information about parties, witnesses, associates, or other case-relevant subjects.
Business due diligence
Reviewing principals, prospective partners, vendors, fiduciaries, or other persons connected to a material business decision.
Private matters
Assessing identity, credibility, affiliations, digital indicators, or risk before a significant personal or financial decision.
Complex risk questions
Building a broader factual record when commercial data alone is not enough to address the client’s legal, financial, reputational, or safety concerns.
Employment, housing, credit, insurance, and eligibility decisions
These uses may involve separate federal or state requirements, including permissible-purpose review, written authorization, disclosures, notices, accuracy procedures, and adverse-action steps. The intended use must be disclosed. RPI may request additional documentation, modify the process, limit the scope, or decline an assignment.
Frequently asked questions
Background investigation questions
What is included in Professional Background Intelligence?
Professional Background Intelligence uses commercial investigative databases and other approved sources to develop identity, contact, address, relationship, asset, business, licensing, court-record, criminal-history, and public-facing web indicators when available. A licensed investigator reviews and organizes the results, notes material identity conflicts, and explains database limitations.
What does Comprehensive Background Intelligence add?
Comprehensive includes the Professional level and adds digital-footprint research, associated emails and usernames, account discovery, public profiles, deep-web and open-source research, and lawful exposure research. Findings are cross-referenced with the subject’s identity information and reported with source and access limitations.
What makes Deep-Dive Investigative Intelligence different?
Deep Dive includes the first two levels and adds advanced Boolean and structured search research, direct court and government sources, public-records requests when appropriate, news and archive research, deeper social-media work, supporting documentation, and investigator analysis tied to the questions in the matter.
Is social-media research included?
The depth depends on the approved level and scope. Public-facing indicators may appear in Professional research; Comprehensive may add account discovery and broader open-source context; Deep Dive may include more focused social-media collection, archives, documentation, and analysis. A separate social-media report can also be scoped.
How are scope and pricing determined?
RPI reviews the lawful purpose, subject identifiers, address history, relevant jurisdictions, research questions, required sources, timing, complexity, supporting records, and expected deliverable before confirming scope and pricing.
Can a background investigation be used for an employment, housing, credit, insurance, or eligibility decision?
Those uses may involve separate federal or state requirements. The intended use must be disclosed, and RPI may require additional documentation, modify the process, limit the scope, or decline the assignment.
Confidential consultation
Choose the depth that fits the matter
Contact Royal Palm Investigations to discuss the subject, lawful purpose, research questions, timing, relevant jurisdictions, and reporting needs. RPI will recommend an appropriate service level and confirm scope and pricing before work begins.
Over 30 years of investigative experience. Licensed Florida Private Investigators. Agency #A3300070.