Felons in your neighborhood

Postby **Shellie** » May 27th, 2008, 10:46 am

This link will tell you of any convicted felons in your neighborhood. After typing in your address, you will get a map of your area with any convicted felons marked by a red marker or red push pin. Run your cursor over the markers/pins to see name, age, and conviction.

Edited out link due to not being legit!

Pastor Bill · Postby **Pastor Bill** » May 27th, 2008, 10:57 am

One word of warning, be careful how much you believe on these sites. I know of a person that has had alot of trouble, because of a site like this that portrays a crime committed when he was a child as a recent event, and makes it look much worse than it was. He has lost jobs, apartments and many things due to this. He's not a saint, but things aren't always what they appear either.

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » May 27th, 2008, 11:22 am

2 kidnappers
2 vehicular assaults in the 1st degree
1 sexual assault

5 people within 2 miles

Pianoman · Postby **Pianoman** » May 27th, 2008, 11:34 am

Ummm - I don't think this site is legit. Every time I run it - different names come up for my area. I live in the country - and there is no one living close to me - but it's showing all kinds of people of all different nationalities next door to me.

Not sure what the scoop is on the site - but don't believe anything on it.

Postby **Shellie** » May 27th, 2008, 11:38 am

Pianoman,

Thanks for the info. I put my address in several times and got different sites and names each time. It even gave me one convited felon that lived out in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sorry for the bad info, Guys.

Pianoman · Postby **Pianoman** » May 27th, 2008, 11:38 am

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/felonspy.asp

:oops:

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » May 27th, 2008, 11:42 am

I did some more searching and got info on people that were minors. Wouldn't that be sealed info?

one love · Postby **one love** » May 27th, 2008, 1:44 pm

Full Quiver wrote:I did some more searching and got info on people that were minors. Wouldn't that be sealed info?

yes all crimes that are commited as a minor are sealed unless opened by a judge with a warrant.

Im glad for some of the sex crimes sites but they do a lot of damage. Some people are on that list becasue they dated a girl that was seventeen when he was seventeen but turned eighteen in before her. Those situations are not spelled out and makes one look like a sex offender.

Pastor Bill · Postby **Pastor Bill** » May 28th, 2008, 3:49 am

one love wrote:
Full Quiver wrote:I did some more searching and got info on people that were minors. Wouldn't that be sealed info?

yes all crimes that are commited as a minor are sealed unless opened by a judge with a warrant.

Im glad for some of the sex crimes sites but they do a lot of damage. Some people are on that list becasue they dated a girl that was seventeen when he was seventeen but turned eighteen in before her. Those situations are not spelled out and makes one look like a sex offender.

That's the problem with these sites, BUT not all crimes commited as a minor are sealed with these sites either. I know of a man, now an adult married with children who is listed on one of these sites with a current picture listing that he committed sexual crimes with a 12 year old girl. He is represented as a child molester, when in fact he was about 13-14 at the time, and while what they did was wrong, it is very different than the way it is portrayed.

The family has tried to combat it, but the only way they can get his name and picture off the site is to get him pardoned.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » May 28th, 2008, 4:33 am

There is no commercial database for criminal histories of people. There is the NCIC, which is managed by the FBI, and which is for governmental use only. Even the NCIC is of dubious reliability at times, but it almost universally used by state and local governments, police departments, etc. Overall, it does what it says it does. BUT, if there is ever anyone who touts abilities to produce criminal histories on people, they are not getting them from the NCIC. States and localities have various databases, some free, some restricted, some fee-based. For example, in Alabama, we have the Alacourt system, which is nothing more than the online docket of all state courts. If you are willing to shell out a couple of hundred bucks a month, you can use it, or you can go to the local courthouse and access it freely. You can enter a person's name and see what criminal cases since the early 1990's they have had, the disposition of those cases, any pending cases, etc., and after varying dates in varying counties depending on how far back their imaging efforts reach, you can see those files more or less fully online. Replicating that kind of effort 50 times is costly and unless someone is selling the information, no one is going to spend that much to access it. Well, let me tell you, many sell it, but I know of no one who gives it away. So, if someone gives you an opportunity to access that information or tells you information without charging for it, think scam.

EXCEPTION: State and local websites that reveal where convicted sex offenders are registered, or have some variation on that info. Alabama does a pretty decent job of keeping that info available, free, updated and online. But, for felons in general, it just ain't so. Felons MUST register in Alabama, however (most states have a felony registry, many states are lax in enforcing it, and almost no one knows about them). But, there's no website or database for it. Most such registries are locally maintained and, as I said, poorly updated for felons in general.

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » May 28th, 2008, 11:42 am

TN is trying to start a DUI registry.

Jude 2