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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

I’d hope that residency verification could be improved or  increased in frequency to eliminate encouraging stalking or parent/community investigators.  Being followed or having a feeling that someone would follow us possibly repeatedly or again is truly what has bothered me the most.

The current watchdog reporting process seems (based on the data)  to catch more innocent people than guilty ones.

One could say I shouldn’t care, I was cleared, it’s a year later. But to have our home invaded by a stranger, then to later have a parent follow and take pictures of you and your children, it can shake a person up.

I read many stories in the media and listened to other accounts of families impacted by the current process and learned a lot about what others have gone through. My situation was unique, but shared in that I can relate to parents who are falsely accused or followed.

I can only imagine how a family who was not of means would have handled it.

There’s got to be a better way.

This will be my last post here. Thanks.

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I don't understand why you say the current system is designed to catch innocent people.  When you investigate, you will necessarily investigate some people who ultimately are innocent- that's the way the system should work.  If you only investigated people who you know are guilty before looking into it, rampant abuse will occur unchecked.  (I say this as an investigator at a government agency who had a boss who required us to prove guilt before we could even investigate, to the sever detriment to the people we were supposed to protect.)

Also, you say your "home was invaded," but that sounds incredibly dramatic and not likely an accurate reflection of what occurred.  Taking limited steps to determine if you live where you claim (and must to attend your school) is hardly and invasion.

I understand you are pissed at those who reported you and, even more do, gossiped about you.  I understand you are shook up about broader things you are going through.  But as for the possibility of you committing residency fraud, the system seems to have worked as it should.  Otherwise, rampant fraud/theft, which is not a victimless crime despite but many initimated, will perpetuate.[/quote]

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