Licensed Florida agency A3400127 · Investigator C3400073 · Veteran-led, 12 years Army military intelligence · Phone answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week · Silver, Best Private Investigator, Bradenton’s Best 2025
Insight Investigative Group, LLC is a licensed Florida private investigative agency, agency license A3400127, based at 3413 49th St W in Bradenton. This is our home county, not a service area we drive to. Surveillance is $1,000 per day and background investigations start at $175.
Why does a local investigator matter in Manatee County?
Because records here are not all in the same place or the same format. Manatee County civil and criminal filings sit in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, which also covers Sarasota and DeSoto counties, and the Clerk of the Circuit Court handles official records, plats and probate. Knowing which counter holds what, and which records still require a trip rather than a download, is the difference between a two day turnaround and a two week one.
The same applies on the ground. An investigator who has not worked Bradenton does not know that the barrier island causeways are chokepoints, that a great deal of the county is gated or HOA-controlled with private roads where surveillance rules change, or that seasonal population swings make a February pattern of life look nothing like a July one.
What we work here
Workers compensation and insurance claim surveillance for carriers and employers across Manatee County. Domestic matters including infidelity, cohabitation for alimony modification, and child custody documentation. Background investigations for attorneys, businesses and individuals. TSCM bug sweeps for homes, offices and vehicles. Asset searches and locates. CPTED surveys for property managers and HOAs, of which this county has a great many.
Surveillance in a seasonal county
Manatee County’s population changes substantially between season and summer, and that matters more to surveillance than most people expect. A subject’s routine in March, with traffic on Manatee Avenue and the islands busy, is not the routine they keep in August. Neighbourhoods that give good natural cover in season are conspicuous when half the driveways are empty.
We factor that into scheduling rather than billing days against it. Where a subject’s pattern makes an assignment unlikely to produce anything, we say so before you book.
Where we work in the county
Bradenton and downtown, West Bradenton and Palma Sola, Bayshore Gardens, Samoset, Oneco, Bradenton Beach, Holmes Beach and Anna Maria, Cortez, Ellenton, Palmetto, Parrish, Myakka City and Lakewood Ranch on the Manatee side. We take assignments across the county and statewide in Florida where a case requires it.
What it costs
Surveillance $1,000 per day flat, including unlimited mileage. Background investigations $175, $600 or $1,200 by depth, rush $400. Bug sweeps $1.50 per square foot with a $500 minimum, vehicle sweep $500 flat. Locates from $100. Device location check $795. Published, quoted in writing, and the number you are quoted is the number you pay.
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Based at 3413 49th St W, Bradenton. Consultations are confidential and the work is scoped and quoted before you commit to anything.
Call and a licensed investigator answers, day or night, including weekends. Written enquiries are answered within 48 hours.