BRB Publications, Inc. (BRB), provides links to free government searchable sites as well as some nongovernment sites. BRB Publications, Inc., maintains a series of databases with profiles of over 26,000 government and private entities involved with public record access.

The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Center for the Study of Intelligence's duties include, but are not limited to, publishing the quarterly classified journal and annual unclassified edition of Studies in Intelligence and key documentary collections from the Cold War; hosting independent research and publishing books and monographs on intelligence topics; producing monographs on CIA history and the history of intelligence; supporting the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series; promoting public understanding of intelligence; and providing conferences, seminars, and a forum for practitioners and scholars.

The Common Competencies for State, Local, and Tribal Intelligence Analysts identifies common analytic competencies that should be exhibited by state, local, and tribal intelligence analysts working in state or major urban area fusion centers or similar analytic law enforcement entities. These competencies are essential for analysts to effectively perform their job duties and are required in their unique operating environments.

The article Data Mining: Agencies Have Taken Key Steps to Protect Privacy in Selected Efforts, but Significant Compliance Issues Remain explores data mining efforts with a variety of purposes and uses and employs different data inputs and outputs. This article also explains the results for each of the five data mining efforts examined in the study. According to the article, while the agencies responsible for these five efforts took many of the key steps required by federal law and executive branch guidance for the protection of personal information, none followed all key procedures. Recommendations are also listed for each of the agencies responsible for the five data mining efforts to ensure that their efforts include adequate privacy and security protections.

Docusearch investigates the identity, reputation, conduct, affiliations, associations, movements, and whereabouts of (but is not limited to) potential business partners, employees of questionable scruples, debtors, and even prospective spouses and relatives to be. Docusearch services include locating hidden assets, such as bank accounts, investments, real property and vehicles; locating criminal arrest and disposition records, professional disciplinary actions, and other indicators of moral turpitude; locating driver's license histories and automobile ownership records; finding witnesses, relatives, friends, or even lost loves; and finding the listed and unlisted numbers of telephones, pagers, cellular phones, and faxes.

This Web site contains the contact information for county courthouses across the nation.

The International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) aims to enhance the general understanding of the role of intelligence analysis, encourage the recognition of intelligence analysis as a professional endeavor, develop international qualification and competence standards, reinforce professional concepts, devise training standards and curricula, furnish advisory and related services on intelligence analysis matters, conduct analytic-related research studies, and provide the ability to disseminate information regarding analytical techniques and methods. Members include, but are not limited to, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Haiti, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, the United States, and Wales.

The Markle Foundation aims to create an information network that prevents terrorism and protects the security of our homeland, while preserving the civil liberties that are a part of national values. The Markle Foundation works to realize this by accelerating the use of technologies to address critical public needs, particularly in the areas of health and national security. Over the past few years, the foundation has developed an approach to work that draws together multisectoral groups of leaders and innovators from technology, government, public interest organizations, and business in order to create strategic, sustainable solutions. The Markle Foundation leverages resources to structure and operate projects in cooperation with partners instead of working as a traditional grant-making organization.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) provides information about missing and exploited children; operates a CyberTipline to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation; provides technical assistance to individuals and law enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases; assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction; distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children; coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector; networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases; provides information about effective state legislation to help in the protection of children; and offers training programs to law enforcement and social service professionals.

The U.S. Census Bureau Web site provides an interactive database engine with survey information, census tract street locator, county business and zip business patterns, and international trade data. This Web site also provides QuickFacts containing frequently requested U.S. Census Bureau information at the county, state, and national levels. Mapping systems and search engines for name, place, and zip code systems, as well as downloadable software with census and survey information, can be found on the census Web site.