Posted on 07/22/2010 1:41:06 PM PDT by Clint Williams
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- It has been a nightmare for Dan Wheeler for 15 years. It started with his wallet being stolen from his truck, and his identity stolen. Usually the trouble that follows has to do with bank or credit fraud, but Wheeler says his identity was stolen by a sex offender who was arrested and used Wheeler's name as an alias.
"It's been absolutely miserable," said Wheeler.
About five years ago the Port Orchard man was stopped for making an illegal left turn.
"The officer told me to get out of the car and I was under arrest," said Wheeler. "I asked why and he said I was a wanted sex offender. ...
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Our legislators look the other way on identity theft. Millions of illegal immigrants steal identities every day.
Doesn’t anyone compare pics? Fingerprints? Unbelievable!
Note to self: Don’t leave wallet in truck.
Someone has stolen your identity and is spam/pimping FR!
The state is knowingly and deliberately leaving his name in the database. If Washington has a tort claims act, as most states do, I'd like to see him sue them for defamation, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and invasion of privacy, misappropriation of his identity. If they are going to list him in the database out of some fear his name will be used as an "alias" they should pay him for the privilege.
A woman once told me she had to hire an attorney because her identity was stolen by an illegal who went to the hospital and had a baby with it. She had to deal with the medical bill nightmare for years, and it cost her thousands.
He may be right. A spokesman for the Washington State Patrol, which handles the State Sex Offenders Database, says when someone is arrested and uses an alias, that alias is kept on file forever. The concern is that if authorities delete the alias, the criminal could go back to using it again.
Wheeler doesn't know where to turn."
He should send this newspaper clipping to his congressman, senators, governor, and state representatives.
If I was a US Senator, I would constantly be jumping right in the middle of government's business throwing my weight around like Foghorn Leghorn, visiting bureaucrats' offices and poking them in the chest saying "Ah say, ah SAY, boy! Now just a-wait a cotton-picking minute son. Look at me while I'm talking to ya, son" and scaring the living crap out of them that I'll make them the poster boy for government ineptitude.
I'd ruin people in positions of power.
Washington state may need to change its law to bring sanity into this kind of situation. Each political generation seems to have its own scarlet letter, its own unforgivable sin which excuses the most egregious callousness towards the individual without so much as a by-your-leave. Drugs (especially dealing) held the crown for a long time. Now it’s been edged out by sex offenses. You’re more likely to know if your neighbor once had an affair with a teen one year too young than you are if your neighbor was once a heroin dealer.
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