Exhibit A
Private Investigators work in Oakland
Oakland is a city of owner operators in this trade. Most investigative firms here are small licensed practices run by one or two people, not franchises, and they cover surveillance, background checks, process service and skip tracing across the East Bay. The searches come from people with a specific problem: a family law attorney who needs service, an employer checking a claim, a person trying to find someone. Those searches are local and they are specific, and the firms that show up for them are the ones with pages written about Oakland itself. That is the demand available in this city, and it is steady rather than seasonal.
