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Taltarzac725
03-11-2014, 07:54 AM
Just wanted to post this message of thanks to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office. My only person-to-person contacts with them were quite a long time ago when my Saturn broke down near Saddlebrook Rec Center near the intersection of CR466 and Buena Vista Blvd. An officer stopped to help me call AAA and then stayed right behind my car directing traffic away from my broken down vehicle where I waited for a tow truck. Quite a common occurrence with that old Saturn which I had driven cross country from the wine country of California down the Pacific Highway to near LA and then over to the Grand Canyon, then to where a meteor hit the earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater , over to Albuquerque, then to El Paso and to the Alamo which I circled a few times in it. And then to see a battleship near Mobile, the white sand beaches of the Panhandle, and finally to Palm Harbor.

The officer was quite nice. As was the one who came to our house when I reported a lost wallet of my own which some Good Samaritan had found tossed out on the highway up near Weirsdale. In still had all the credit cards but was only missing the $60 or so I had had in it.

As some may know I have bugged County Sheriff's Offices in Florida on-and-off for quite some time to get links to the Florida Victim Services Directory. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory This has been a statewide effort on my part since around 2000 starting with libraries and then going to some County Sheriff's Offices. I have never felt any animosity from any police department for this advocacy and this of course involves the ones in Lake, Sumter, and Marion County. http://www.sumtercountysheriff.org/ https://www.lcso.org/ http://marionso.com/

Gary Corsair, the reporter for The Villages Daily Sun had done an article on my efforts to get a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory from the Sumter, Marion, and Lake County libraries back in 2007 around May 28, 2007. (Memorial Day)

I had mulled over reporting a cybersmearer/stalker who had followed me in my move from Palm Harbor to the Villages in 2005. I had reported him to the Findlaw Sysop (Systems Operator), the FBI, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office as well as the Chesterfield County Virginia Sheriff's Office but decided the best strategy was just to ignore him now that I had finally figured out who he was. He had bragged about making my life miserable on Findlaw for years and confessed as to who he was.

You can get an idea of what his posts were like from here which is about my battles to get links to the Florida Victim Services Directory at the Palm Harbor and East Lake Community Libraries. I had been hit with a Cease and Desist (@ March 2, 2004) order by the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel for pushing my First Amendment rights and pointing out to Palm Harbor Library staff that there was not a link to the Florida Victim Services's Directory even though their Director Gene Coppola insisted that there was. The reference staff at Palm Harbor Library had agreed with me that there was no link. There was a link to Lemon Laws or something like that but that is not the same thing as the Florida Victim Services Directory.

This is the last message that I remember from this Chesterfield County cybersmearer/stalker dated January 26, 2006.

Now See Prow See-- 11:30am Jan 26, 2006. Where'd you go, Jon? So you're out of Tampa, son? Did the Librarian Mob put too much heat on yer feet? I'm sorry, but with a volunteer like you who needs enemies? I mean, sounds like here's a guy with no real job so he goes and hangs around in the library acting like a paid employee bringing all kinds of headaches for the poor guy trying to run the place, complaining about things he has no knowledge of, being the lingering nut who won't go away. Being a schizo does NOT a fine helper make! How long since you've had a real job, Frenchy?

These very upsetting personal attacks on me lasted from around 2001 through 2006. And for the majority of time I had no idea who this person was. If you know who is doing this, it is not so much of a big deal. But, when you do not....

BarryRX
03-11-2014, 09:06 AM
Out of curiosity, I went to my search engine and googled "florida victims" and the first thing that came up is the Attorney Generals website for victims. Why does anyone need a special link when it is so easy to find from any search engine? I know you are very passionate about this cause, and I support it 100%. I just wonder if technology has made your crusade obsolete.

Taltarzac725
03-11-2014, 09:26 AM
Out of curiosity, I went to my search engine and googled "florida victims" and the first thing that came up is the Attorney Generals website for victims. Why does anyone need a special link when it is so easy to find from any search engine? I know you are very passionate about this cause, and I support it 100%. I just wonder if technology has made your crusade obsolete.

It is more about respect for victims/survivors now and showing them that they are welcome in your library or Sheriff's Department. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory

I am thinking back to when I was going through all those libraries looking for practical materials while walking through the wake of the Michelle Mitchell 2-24-1976 murder. There was/is a reference librarian there who can help people find the right materials but how many victims/survivors of crimes would have the courage to go up and ask the reference librarian for help when they probably have not reported whatever they are going through to the police yet? It is 911 for instance not 911-444-5555. Many crimes are still not reported because of the fear of the victim that he/she will be embarrassed, judged, etc. I knew law students at the University of Minnesota who had been victims of crimes and never reported what happened to them because of fear of humiliation, etc. Some of these crimes were committed by law student on law student for instance.

And, there is a great deal more to my work of the past 38 years or so than just the FL Victim Services Directory. I started this journey around February 28, 1976 when I went to the Washoe County Public Library looking for materials on crimes and criminal investigation. Basically, I was trying to force a dialog between the victim assistance providers and the law, public, medical and other libraries. This was/is international, too. I am quite sure it is happening now. I have told my story on many media not just Findlaw and TOTV.

I did get a forgiveness for a Stipend Grant from the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) for work I did from Minnesota, Illinois, Florida, and mainly California. This Act of Forgiveness was around 2000. This Stipend Grant was for finances toward getting my Masters Degree from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management (Class of May, 1984). The Grant required me to work in the State of Nevada for a period of time or pay them back the money they loaned me for getting my MA. I sent them enough documentation that they forgave the loan because they saw that I had done worthwhile work even if I had only been in Nevada for the Law Library Convention of 1989 in Reno, NV as well as for an interview at the Washoe County Law Library @ February 1994. Of course, they might have just wrote me off as a bad investment, but I did not get that impression from the correspondence I had had with this interstate agency.

BarryRX
03-11-2014, 09:34 AM
Thanks for your reply.

Taltarzac725
03-11-2014, 10:13 AM
Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for your question. That should help. I did try to put a public health spin on all this hoping to get the medical profession involved in this. I did go through describing my efforts to a researcher on stress on the unemployed at the University of California SF School of Public Health. She seemed to think this was a very good cause too. This was back in 1992-1993 I believe. I was subject #613. She did not say this though until after the 17 week study was over as she did not want to influence the tests on the various chemicals in my blood due to the stress. A lot of my hair had fallen out during my last year of law school where I had a roommate who was getting a Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. He was a MD from a Medical School in South Korea. He was an Army doctor too. His study was on stress and chemical reactions in the blood of mice or something like that. I had tried to get him interested in what had become of me since I graduated from Law School in 1989, but it was a non-starter. He is I believe in one of the same volumes I am with Marquis Who's Who in the World for around 1995. I am on page 622; he is on page 730.

I hope he was not too ****ed off by the 224.59 score at the Olympics at Sochi. ;)