Verify a Maine Private Investigator license

liveME Private Security / Guard Licensing · profession key private_investigator

Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How Maine Private Investigator license verification works

A Private Investigator in Maine is licensed by the ME Private Security / Guard Licensing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: name license_type status data_as_of.

Board note: private_investigator only: Maine State Police Weapons and Professional Licensing publishes no online lookup but a nightly Reporting Services PDF 'Active Licensed Professional Investigators as of M/D/YYYY' (files/concealed/ActivePermitHolders.pdf; names only, Last, First MI [suffix]; 164 names on 11/3/2026) → dataset-backed me_msp (ME-MSP), freshness gate 14 days, refreshed by tools/fetch_datasets.py. Verification is by name (a licence number cannot be checked); same-name pairs need a suffix/middle initial. security_guard is NOT coverable: the unit publishes only the contract security COMPANIES (ActiveContractSecurityCo.pdf) and no individual guard roster. Not an ALMS board. Captured 2026-11-04.

What a Private Investigator license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Private Investigator license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a Maine Private Investigator license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "ME", "profession": "private_investigator", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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