This week, Tales of a Public Defender Investigator ( http://pdinvestigator.blogspot.com/) offered up a blog post about using MySpace (www.myspace.com) to conduct investigations into witnesses and victims.



Tales of a Public Defender analyzes the ethics of culling investigatory info from the MySpace pages of adults and juveniles. While investigators owe it to their clients to conduct the most thorough investigations possible, attorneys must adhere to the code of ethics. In defense of using personal websites to gather investigatory info, the PDI blog mentions the case of the Woodland, California, teacher who was arrested for having sex with an underage male student and how her MySpace page led to her apprehension. The NSA also utilizes such resources, monitoring the information people post about themselves on the Internet. With the blogosphere growing exponentially, there is no limit to the amount of info people are willing to reveal about themselves online.