Legality and use of online phone records?

Question

We're interested using phone records (which we'd have to pay for online, about $30) to use in a business complaint to register with the states Attorney General or possibly a small claims case. The $30 we believe is worth it for our case. We only want the times a business called us (our phone company says they can only trace these after a complaint) The sites that offer this, of course claim to be legal, public records, etc and the research Ive done appears to support this, but admit its sketchy. (thats why Im looking for opinions here) Any thoughts on how this might be viewed by a small claims court judge or AG. Like I said, we only want to know when our number was called since would not be using the legal resources for example of a supeona.

Answer 1

I have never heard of a company like this, and, as such, I am sure that a judge would question the reliability of them. In fact, we often subpoena phone records from the provider in question (Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Pac Bell, etc.). If you contact the main headquarters of the service provider they will inform you as to who you should issue and serve a subpoena to in order to get the required information. With that route, you will only spend about the same amount of money as your $30 because you can possibly serve the subpoena with a provate process server in the area or even do it via certified and restricted mail. It all depends on your local court regulations.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Get on the No Call List that companies have to refer to before making calls. Once you know that you are on the list retain your caller ID list to prove that the company(s) violated the No Call Law.

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx