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From: Director - EndAbuse.com
Date: 19 Jul 2000
What I would really like to do on our website, Endabuse.com, is to post a national database of NAMES of men and women who were charged with domestic assault, assault, fraud, stalking, crimes against another person, etc.
My idea is, that if a woman wants to start a relationship with someone and wants to check him out first, to find out if HE has a criminal background, they could log on to our site, punch in the person's name and ssn doing a search, or submit a request for us to do the search and see if we have him listed as a previous domestic abuser or someone with a criminal background.
We couldn't guarantee we had all the information, however if we did have lists of charges on someone etc, it may help save someone.
Right now, unless it is a felony, the reports basically sit with the county agencies. You have to go to the county where the charges were filed.
The police departments are also in the dark about charges someone may have had in a different county. You hear stories all the time about how someone was stopped for speeding and the police ran a check on the person, and did not come up with any warrants from another county.
We want to merge them all into a huge database system for a national system. I saw on tv that the president just signed a bill for money to be appropriated for upgrading and developing a better criminal records systems.
We already have the technical capability of maintaining a database system of multi-millions of names and records, that's not our dilemna, but, I’m not sure how I can do this legally. The privacy laws interfere, libel laws, and it gets pretty complicated.
I would also like to have women out there being able to submit names of their abusive Xs. How could we have the person posting be responsible for the accuracy of the post? I think if they sent us the supporting legal papers.. the legal findings or the county report, that is public and I could post that, you can't publish 'heresay'. Most of the time the abusers never get arrested and charged, so how could they be listed? But how does the Enquirer do it? Could you list them and say 'alleged'?
A fee would have to be in place to help prevent frivolous reporting and to cover the cost of verifying the information, insurance, and maintaining the system but it could be done.
I think many women out there would not get involved in a relationship with a man they met, if they found out that he was arrested several times for stalking the X, etc.
We could add a lot to the efficiency of the criminal records system which is greatly needed. At this point, I’m not sure how I could post names without getting a libel suit against us. Maybe an attorney reading this post could give us some free direction with this.
Please do some brain storming about this. If you have any ideas on how this can be done, let me know. [email protected]
Date: 19 Jul 2000
What I would really like to do on our website, Endabuse.com, is to post a national database of NAMES of men and women who were charged with domestic assault, assault, fraud, stalking, crimes against another person, etc.
My idea is, that if a woman wants to start a relationship with someone and wants to check him out first, to find out if HE has a criminal background, they could log on to our site, punch in the person's name and ssn doing a search, or submit a request for us to do the search and see if we have him listed as a previous domestic abuser or someone with a criminal background.
We couldn't guarantee we had all the information, however if we did have lists of charges on someone etc, it may help save someone.
Right now, unless it is a felony, the reports basically sit with the county agencies. You have to go to the county where the charges were filed.
The police departments are also in the dark about charges someone may have had in a different county. You hear stories all the time about how someone was stopped for speeding and the police ran a check on the person, and did not come up with any warrants from another county.
We want to merge them all into a huge database system for a national system. I saw on tv that the president just signed a bill for money to be appropriated for upgrading and developing a better criminal records systems.
We already have the technical capability of maintaining a database system of multi-millions of names and records, that's not our dilemna, but, I’m not sure how I can do this legally. The privacy laws interfere, libel laws, and it gets pretty complicated.
I would also like to have women out there being able to submit names of their abusive Xs. How could we have the person posting be responsible for the accuracy of the post? I think if they sent us the supporting legal papers.. the legal findings or the county report, that is public and I could post that, you can't publish 'heresay'. Most of the time the abusers never get arrested and charged, so how could they be listed? But how does the Enquirer do it? Could you list them and say 'alleged'?
A fee would have to be in place to help prevent frivolous reporting and to cover the cost of verifying the information, insurance, and maintaining the system but it could be done.
I think many women out there would not get involved in a relationship with a man they met, if they found out that he was arrested several times for stalking the X, etc.
We could add a lot to the efficiency of the criminal records system which is greatly needed. At this point, I’m not sure how I could post names without getting a libel suit against us. Maybe an attorney reading this post could give us some free direction with this.
Please do some brain storming about this. If you have any ideas on how this can be done, let me know. [email protected]