Questions people ask before hiring a private investigator

Is Daniel Fuller a licensed private investigator?

Yes. Daniel Fuller holds an Oklahoma private investigator license from CLEET, the Oklahoma agency that licenses private investigators, and Fuller Investigations holds a CLEET investigative agency license in its own name.

Daniel also holds an Oklahoma private process server license, which is valid statewide. About Daniel Fuller lists all three and says how to ask to see them.

Who will work on my matter?

Daniel Fuller, and no one else. Daniel is the only investigator at Fuller Investigations and handles every matter personally, from the first call to the written report.

Does Daniel take matters outside Oklahoma City?

Yes. Fuller Investigations is based in Oklahoma City and works anywhere in Oklahoma by travel.

Records research often needs no travel at all. Where the work does, mileage is one of the costs set out in the written agreement. See the service area.

How much does it cost to hire a private investigator in Oklahoma?

It depends mostly on how many hours the question needs. Fuller Investigations does not publish rates. Your cost is set out in a written agreement before work begins.

Three things set the price: investigator time by the hour, mileage, and database or records fees. A retainer is paid before work begins, and time and costs are billed against it.

The first consultation is free. For what a private investigator costs in Oklahoma in general, and each factor explained, read the cost guide.

How does work begin?

With a free, confidential consultation: a phone call, a video call or a meeting in the Oklahoma City area, arranged privately. Daniel then sets out what can lawfully be done and what sets the cost.

Work begins only after a written agreement is signed and a retainer is paid. Calling, texting or booking does not make you a client and commits you to nothing. How it works takes the five steps in order.

How long does an investigation take?

It depends on the question and on what can lawfully be observed or found. No investigator can honestly promise a timeline, and Daniel does not.

The scope of the work is written into the agreement before any of it begins.

What can a private investigator legally do in Oklahoma?

Watch and photograph from public places, research public records, and interview people who are willing to talk. Those are the lawful methods the work is built on.

Oklahoma and federal law draw firm lines around those methods, and Daniel works inside them. What a private investigator can and cannot do in Oklahoma sets out each line with its statute.

Can Daniel track a car or get someone's phone records?

No. Oklahoma's stalking law treats tracking a person's location with a GPS or other monitoring device, without that person's consent, as "following", with narrow exceptions (21 O.S. § 1173). Daniel does not place trackers on vehicles.

Getting someone's phone records by lying to a phone company is a federal crime (18 U.S.C. § 1039). Daniel does not obtain another person's texts, call records or account contents.

Can a background investigation be used to decide on hiring or renting?

No. Background investigations from Fuller Investigations are for personal, legal and business research. They are not for hiring, renting, credit or insurance decisions.

Research and reports from Fuller Investigations are not consumer reports under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The background investigations page explains what the work covers.

What will I receive at the end?

A written report of what was done and what was found. Where the work involved field observation, it comes with photographs, video and time-stamped logs.

Work done from records alone produces a written report without field footage.

Can Daniel promise what an investigation will find?

No. Every matter is different, and no investigator can promise what the facts will show. Daniel commits to lawful work and an accurate written report of what was done and found.

Oklahoma law also bars a licensed private investigator from willfully making a false report to a client (59 O.S. § 1750.8(B)). When the work finds nothing, the report says so.

Will Daniel testify if the matter goes to court?

Yes. Daniel is available to testify about the work performed and what was observed.

How a report is used in court is a question for your attorney.

Can I text instead of calling?

Yes. Text (572) 246-7839 with your first name and a good time to reach you. Calls and texts are answered 24/7.

Please keep case details, photos and documents out of the first text. There is no email address and no contact form: call, text or open a case file online.

What if my phone is not private?

Say so at the start, or call from a phone only you use. You will be contacted only in the way and at the times you choose.

Is what I tell Daniel confidential?

Yes. A licensed private investigator in Oklahoma may not disclose information learned on a case except as the client directs or the law requires (59 O.S. § 1750.8(B)).

Fuller Investigations does not confirm to anyone whether a person is or was a client. Confidential does not mean legally privileged: speaking with a private investigator does not by itself create attorney-client privilege.